test please delete

[Bear]

[BrowneIssue]

What transpires on the pendrive linux front, old chap?

Any further developments?

I decided to ignore the online advice and just install it to the USB thingie as if it were a hard disk. Which worked (Knoppix, this time). However, it didn't have the right drivers to make my screen work (that took some working out) but I got a workaround to that. But it would not save my settings to the USB drive so I crated another partition on there to save them to, which works provided you remember to tell it so save them and remember to tell it to load them and even then it doesn't work properly. Also it doesn't always load so I have to sometimes have my BIOS settings one way and sometimes the other. And the drive has to be taken out between bootings and put back unless I want to go into Windows. So it sort of works, a bit.

[BrowneIssue]

Right then.

I'm off to Manchester to learn about the computers at Jodrell Bank.

http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conEvent.1254

That was absolutely fascinating.

A brilliant, motivating and inspirational talk.

I am SO JEALOUS that I wasn't involved with that from the 1950s.

[BrowneIssue]

There we are; drilled with the drilly thing, drilled again with a bigger drilly thing, and populated with components.

Now for the soldering with the soldery thing.

We didn't have anybody like you when I was at college.

[BrowneIssue]

I think they deserve the Spanish Inquisition.

They won't be expecting that!

[BrowneIssue]

I have now fashioned the beginnings of a sales page:

“Who Else Wants to Skyrocket Their Post Count Quickly, Easily and With Next to No Effort Using Just………. Drivelling?!”

Now we just need someone brave enough to pop that on the bottom of every active thread in the middle of the night! Fly posting!

[BrowneIssue]

Pah, I still can't believe that I am the only one to wear PJ's to bed.... out of everyone....

Does that make me wierd?

Yes.

[Bear]

They won't be expecting that!

your right look

[BrowneIssue]

God, I'm bored.

GIVE ME SOMETHING CHALLENGING TO DO!!!

I want to do stuff I've never done before - heck, stuff that nobody's ever done before, not this boring same old stuff

Ah well, roll on next week - or maybe the week after...

Get yourself a £200 hydrogen timing circuit thingy, a 5 metre radio telescope and a PC. Then with a bit of fourier transforming, you could be mapping the Milky Way in radio frequencies. Main issues are in data processing.

Other have done it before though so that doesn't count.

[BrowneIssue]

GIVE ME SOMETHING CHALLENGING TO DO!!!

The open mapping community are generating loads of free data about routes and locations in the UK. There is all sorts of opportunities there for making money ... and I believe you've done mashups before. (NB I am confident there is little demand for elephant mapping in Teddington.)