I took a look at eBay's new page design, which they are currently previewing. Verdict: needs lots more work.
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24
Sep
eBay's new page design
23
Sep
Korg N364 for sale
I have a Korg N364 synth workstation to sell. It will appear on eBay on Thursday. I'm having a bit of an equipment juggle and I don't have the space any more, so please buy it, it's a great keyboard!
22
Sep
Some people
Just at the top of a hill that is Friendly street, just near my house, there are traffic lights for the single lane of traffic joining the A20. A woman in a burgundy Fiat Punto pulls up to the lights, first in line, right in the middle of the lane (just as if she had stopped at the lights, as usual). She then turns the engine off, puts her hazard lights on, gets out of the car, locks it, and walks off to nearby shops. Within seconds there is a queue of cars hooting. I was quite incredulous at such flagrant disregard for just about everything and everyone!
10
Sep
PHP Barcelona Conference
PHP Barcelona's conference site just went live. I'm speaking on email in PHP at the conference, along with PHPLondon regulars Zoë Slattery and Scott McVicar. It all happens on Saturday September 27th. Tell your friends!
08
Sep
Mud vs Sheep vs Bike 2008
What an excellent weekend! Driving up to Slimbridge in the pouring raid hearing flood warnings on the radio filled us with a certain foreboding, but it was great! Real proper mud, a sprinkle of rain, some excellent biking (but not too much!), brilliant company and excess food as usual!My new cranks fared very well, freshly serviced cables a big improvement, especially the front shifter. I'm still not fit enough though - my shoulders and my bum still ache!
The T-shirts went down very well, pretty pleased with mine.
On top of all that, it was a very happy 40th birthday party (if a little early) for Fraser.
Luc learned to say "Dog", "Duck" (there were lots) and finally figured out how to say "Bye Bye" instead of just "Hello"!
03
Sep
Cracked Crank
It turns out that it's more or less the same price to have a new combined BB and chainset rather than just replacing the old taper-fit chainset, and it should be lighter, stiffer and stronger into the bargain. So Chain Reaction delivered me a nice Deore LX Hollowtech II chainset, and Brockley Cycle Team fitted it for me today, along with some good advice.
(Added a picture of it 22/9/2008).
03
Sep
ClamAV broken version check
If you've just built and installed the new version 0.94 of ClamAV (because it reminded you that your current version was out of date), and you're using the experimental features, it exposes a rather dumb bug that results in these messages in your freshclam log:
Apparently ClamAV's version comparison is not terribly clever, and the 'new feature' of marking experimental versions with '-exp' has tripped it up. I'm sure there are multiple workarounds, but I changed this in shared/misc.c:
as the EXP_VER string is what gets appended to the version number (apparently only for display purposes, but it does the trick). I then rebuilt it and now my log says:
Yay - no error!
@4000000048be74fd0687f57c Software version from DNS: 0.94
@4000000048be74fd0688245c WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
@4000000048be74fd06883014 WARNING: Local version: 0.94-exp Recommended version: 0.94
Apparently ClamAV's version comparison is not terribly clever, and the 'new feature' of marking experimental versions with '-exp' has tripped it up. I'm sure there are multiple workarounds, but I changed this in shared/misc.c:
#ifdef CL_EXPERIMENTAL
/*#define EXP_VER "-exp"*/
#define EXP_VER
#else
#define EXP_VER
#endif
as the EXP_VER string is what gets appended to the version number (apparently only for display purposes, but it does the trick). I then rebuilt it and now my log says:
@4000000048be848926da098c Software version from DNS: 0.94
Yay - no error!
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