Eclipse – Stephenie Meyer
As I’ve just gone straight onto Breaking Dawn, I thought I may as well hang off on the mini-review and do both at once. Makes things easier.
Category: Ramblings
TV License
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Bargain of the Century
Civilization III Complete. i.e. Civ III with all expansions. Arguably the best version of Civ. For £2.99 on Steam. All of Civ III. £2.99 No need for a play disk. ACEBEST.
Neeyaaaaargh!
Ok, so I run fvwm2 and I’m very happy with it. It does absolutely everything I need with no frills, fuss, or bloat. Except I also need to use pidgin as most of our inter-departmental communication is via jabber. Except Pidgin is one of those applications written by the worst kind of code-hacker – the
BBC News Strikes Again – The Reprise
OK, so after my acerbic rant about the BBC hysterically over-reporting the alleged dangers of snow, Mrs Gubbins has only gone and slipped on a patch of ice, breaking her wrist and causing a lateral fracture along the length of her forearm. I hate it when Sod’s Law interferes with a good rant. Note: Current
BBC News Strikes Again
Ok, so the BBC, in their usual hysterical manner, have been reporting on the fact that there’s snow. So I thought I should help out by suggesting a headline. Click the image at the start of this story to see it. Obviously, as they have to manufacture panic to give them something to report on
RAID1 Woe
Here’s an annoying thing. I have this box which is used as a development database by one of our dev teams. It’s a lightweight little thing – an HP ML110 quad-core jobbie with a couple of 500GB SATA drives configured as RAID1 using software RAID under CentOS Linux. The thing runs Oracle9i in 4GB of