Catch up
Been a while since the last post, things are hectic at work as we are pushing towards getting the new stuff out the door so this post aims at recapping all the stuff thats been happening.
Went for a ride with Sharkey yesterday, did our big eltham circut, which head from my place up to the eastern freeway, along that east till we get to springvale rd then up along springvale rd till it ends. There is then a trail (the yarra creek trail I think) that winds its way west underneath eltham and all the way up to burke rd. The trail then turns south and links back up with our normal trail along the eastern which we then take back east to my place. Its about a 45km trip, which we did in just under 3 hours. We did stop a couple of times to watch some local footy and hockey so would probably be 2.5 hrs if we hadn’t stopped.
It was a much more serious ride than we have been doing recently, but the type of thing that we should be doing all the time. Once we got over the initial 10k mark the body had warmed up and it got easier from there. Only the last 5k which is up and down was a bit hard, but I'd hope that it was after 40k or we should be riding further.
So what else is going on.. Crickscore is back. I had an issue with the database corrupting and had to get help from the guy that built the database software to fix the errors. So a big thanks to Toby and his Mckoi database.
Given that Cooltools is on a break this season it wasn’t super important to get Crickscore back, but now it is it must be time to do some serious interface work. We’ll see how time goes over the next few weeks.
Downloaded KnoppMyth to try it out. Was ok, couldn’t get the Australian channels to load but the install was pretty painless.. Good to see development making this sort of technology more like an appliance. Now all I need is a machine capable of running MythTV happily and I'll be happy.
After playing with KnoppMyth, by torrent download of Fedora Core 4 (FC4) was complete, so decided to install that on my test machine. Yeah its nice. Got the latest firefox pre-installed and Gnome looks really cool.. I’ve been a kde guy for a long time, but on this install left Gnome as the default. I really like the menu bar and task bar separation. And the UI-themeing looks really clean.
The only problem with FC4 is that is so new that the apt-get repository's haven't been updated yet, to even a point that the apt-get rpm from freshrpms.net hasn’t even been build. But I can wait.
I’m planning on updating my main server, the one u got this from, from an older Redhat 9 release to the latest FC4. Just need to plan a backup first, just in case.
So what else has been going on??? Went and saw the Bahrs last night. Good to catch up with them again, its been a while since we have. Jessica (the latest to the clan) is so small and cute and Rach looked right at home with a new baby in her arms…
Not much else, and I think thats probably enough for now. I’ll try and get back soon with more details.
Oh, one last thing is that I'm working on a new whitesquare software development site. Thinking of using a blog engine to distribute news about all of the whitesquare products.. The current trial is over at dev.whitesquaresoft.com and I hope to get some content and the current beta downloads up in the next few days.
C ya!