Sunday 21 September 2008
OU Update
I've just got my final TMA results back for M257, I managed to score 99%, which is the second time I've got the score. Just one exam to sit and I'll have finished the course. Already the study material for my next course has arrived M263 Building Blocks of Software.
Thursday 18 September 2008
Messy Room
My room is a horrible state. My girlfriend is coming back from holiday tomorrow and I promised I would tidy up for her. Here's a quick description of the kind of filth that litters my tiny room: Numerous plastic bags (mainly from Morrison's. Why I haven't got rid of them is a mystery); A plethora of old clothing clutters the floor punctuated by the occasional odd shoe rising like a lone island from the sea of chaos. Fixed in for good measure is my Watchmen issues that I bought off E-bay ages ago, and numerous bits of papers and unopened letters - some of which contain mysterious phone numbers scribbled in my awful handwriting.
My desk is covered with hundreds of cheap Biros and drawing materials; a couple of packets of Bean Boozled jelly beans that I am really starting to regret buying (really, who would want to eat a vomit flavoured bean?). Time sheets for my job litter my desk from where I dumped them after cleaning out my backpack the other day. They are the reminders of the hard labour I have put in to the thankless task of filing at my local hospital. Among this debris is digital camera, hair brush and deodorant that I really should use more. A number of slowly moulding cups border my desk. It really horrible site let me tell you.
Worst of all the house vacuum cleaner, should I ever use it, excretes a terrible smell that defiles the air and worst of all my nostrils. Basically it is a sight that would make the Nurgle Chaos god (At least in Warhammer 40k anyway) of despair - personified by stagnation, entropy and disease - feel very sick.
My desk is covered with hundreds of cheap Biros and drawing materials; a couple of packets of Bean Boozled jelly beans that I am really starting to regret buying (really, who would want to eat a vomit flavoured bean?). Time sheets for my job litter my desk from where I dumped them after cleaning out my backpack the other day. They are the reminders of the hard labour I have put in to the thankless task of filing at my local hospital. Among this debris is digital camera, hair brush and deodorant that I really should use more. A number of slowly moulding cups border my desk. It really horrible site let me tell you.
Worst of all the house vacuum cleaner, should I ever use it, excretes a terrible smell that defiles the air and worst of all my nostrils. Basically it is a sight that would make the Nurgle Chaos god (At least in Warhammer 40k anyway) of despair - personified by stagnation, entropy and disease - feel very sick.
The End Of Two Era's
It's a little late but the forum I regularly post on has closed it door. The GamesRadar UK forum, that was my online home for quite a while, has gone; fortunately a few long time members made a quick switch to GRcade which is where I shall be moving my occasional comments to.
Also sad news over at 1up with Jeff Green's departure last week and now quick on his heels Sean Elliot has made for the door to work at Take 2 Boston. It appears that GFW Radio is over.
Also sad news over at 1up with Jeff Green's departure last week and now quick on his heels Sean Elliot has made for the door to work at Take 2 Boston. It appears that GFW Radio is over.
Wednesday 17 September 2008
Ubuntu Wirless Nightmare
Well I finished my course work a while ago, instead of turning my attentions back to my development project I decided to spent some time trying to set up Ubuntu. When I intalled my computer the last time, shortly after buying windows vista, I reinstalled XP and added Ubuntu 8.04 to my machine but since I couldn't quickly get the wireless connectivity working I gave up. Now I have spend two long evenings amounting to around eight hours of my time, that could be used much better, failing to get my wireless cards working under Ubuntu. It's quite annoying because I wanted to compare Ubuntu to Windows Vista but without any internet connection it would be pretty pointless and I would be forced to conclude that Windows Vista was massively superior to Ubuntu.
My wireless setup includes one Asus 167-g USB dongle, a Belkin PCI wireless card that doesn't work with Ubuntu without Ndiswrapper. The main router is a BT home hub the 1.5 version and my spare is a 3 com office connect router.
From boot I was able to see my wireless network from the network manager, I was able to click on the network and set my password information, the internet connection I use is encrypted with a 64 bit hex key. Needless to say the connection failed, I decided to try and get the wireless connected to a spare router as other people use the same router for internet accesses and I didn't want to keep repeatable kicking them off. Playing around with the settings I managed to the router to connect with both WPA and no encryption although the connection percentage never quite reached 100% and I couldn't get any kind of connection using WEP. While my other house mates were out I tried fiddling around with the main routers encryption type and I eventually managed to get an intermittent connection which is where I had to leave my attempts.
Searching through the Asus website I found a driver binary for my wireless dongle with some tampering I set up my machine to compile the binaries, sadly the compile failed and I my un informed attempts to fix what was wrong failed. In-between I went through and manually configured my network card which failed to connect. Finally I install WICD which didn't help although why would it. At times I even had problems connecting to my test router. Throughout the process I had numerous periods where I had trouble with my spare router.
I'm hoping that the new Ubuntu release that coming next move will resolve my problems the other solution is to by a new wireless card that is better supported by the operating system although I'm not sure if either of these will help, me on my quest to have a usable Ubuntu operating system.
My wireless setup includes one Asus 167-g USB dongle, a Belkin PCI wireless card that doesn't work with Ubuntu without Ndiswrapper. The main router is a BT home hub the 1.5 version and my spare is a 3 com office connect router.
From boot I was able to see my wireless network from the network manager, I was able to click on the network and set my password information, the internet connection I use is encrypted with a 64 bit hex key. Needless to say the connection failed, I decided to try and get the wireless connected to a spare router as other people use the same router for internet accesses and I didn't want to keep repeatable kicking them off. Playing around with the settings I managed to the router to connect with both WPA and no encryption although the connection percentage never quite reached 100% and I couldn't get any kind of connection using WEP. While my other house mates were out I tried fiddling around with the main routers encryption type and I eventually managed to get an intermittent connection which is where I had to leave my attempts.
Searching through the Asus website I found a driver binary for my wireless dongle with some tampering I set up my machine to compile the binaries, sadly the compile failed and I my un informed attempts to fix what was wrong failed. In-between I went through and manually configured my network card which failed to connect. Finally I install WICD which didn't help although why would it. At times I even had problems connecting to my test router. Throughout the process I had numerous periods where I had trouble with my spare router.
I'm hoping that the new Ubuntu release that coming next move will resolve my problems the other solution is to by a new wireless card that is better supported by the operating system although I'm not sure if either of these will help, me on my quest to have a usable Ubuntu operating system.
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