Year: 2007

I didn’t decide to stay on holiday!

I should start this with a link to my holiday photos on flickr.
I know that its been over a month since i got back off holiday, and i haven’t posted anything on my blog!
But I’m going to now!

I was going to start this post with details of our holiday, but I’ll now leave that for another post!

What has caused the long delay on posting? I don’t know really, but I think its time!
Ive been busy at work, and when I’m not at work I’m with my girlfriend, and I just don’t seem to have the time left to do anything else!
But I have managed to build myself a second computer! I am going to be using as a file-cum-web-cum-print-server.

A couple of years ago I brought a Via EPIA Mini-ITX motherboard from www.mini-itx.com which I was intending to put inside my old radio alarm clock.
I did put it inside the radio alarm clock, but I never got around to actually installing an operating system onto it, and ever using it, so its been sat on my desk gathering dust.

I’ve been wanting to change my main computer for something a little faster, and I thought now would be a good time to do something with the little computer!
So I brought a case, installed Fedora 7 onto it, and now I’m just trying to get file sharing going between it and an aging Intel Celeron (333MHz) via wireless, and two other relatively old computers (both AMD’s, a K6 500MHz and an Athlon 850MHz)

I’ve just brought 1Gb of memory for it, as when I initially got i, I only brought 256Mb for it!

I’ve already got the web server running, and webmin, now I just need to install the printer, and its practically done!

I’m typing this post up using the new computer!

I’ll post more details soon!
Until next time!
Bye!

Edit: I’ve fixed the type of my Mini-ITX motherboard to a VIA EPIA series motherboard, and I have updated the link to point to the correct url (http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?motherboard_id=21)

We are off today!

Just turned on my computer to check the weather forecast for Jersey and it looks to be quite sunny for most of the week, but with some light showers.

Whereas for Bristol, the forecast looks to be some quite heavy showers, with some sunny interval!

We’ve packed the sun cream at the bottom, so we should be ok for the weather! Lol!

We will be leaving here at 10am, and it should take us about an hour, to an hour and a half to get there, it is just about 80 miles to Weymouth!

I am both looking forward to the holiday, and am also very nervous.

See you all next week!

Room 101!

Well, Ok, not room 101, more like post 101! Lol!
I cant believe that its been more than a month since my last post, doesn’t time fly!?!

Since my last post there has been a few things happen, some I had thought about posting about, but I just haven’t been able to get the time!

The nights are now drawing in, and the past few days has been sunny, unlike May and June!

I am now on a three week rolling rota at work, I am now working one in every three weekends.
Staying with work, one of the warehouse colleagues is cutting back his hours, and I’m taking over his Tuesdays, and will be bringing in deliveries!

Me and my girlfriend are still together, and on Sunday we go off on holiday to Jersey for a week. We will be camping. Its my first holiday on my own, and my girlfriends first out of the country!

One of my other less known websites http://linux.roganty.co.uk/ is being worked on. And I have nearly completed it. I just need to tidy it up, and make it more presentable

The spam count has reached 7,800. That’s 2,800 in just over a month! Thank you Akismet!

I think that’s it, for this post!
And hopefully not for another month!

100th Post!

This is my 100th post! Yay!
And I’m mad and typing it up at half past midnight on Monday! *groan*

This is just a quick post to say that I have finally uploaded the photos that I took when me and my girlfriend went to Bristol Zoo on my birthday, and then Chedder Gorge the following day.

Photos from Bristol Zoo
Photos from Chedder Gorge

Only one more thing before finishing this post, I have reached the magical number of 5,000 spam comments! WooHoo!
Yea, like thats anything to celebrate!

Good night!

Sunny Saturday Evening

Well its now Saturday, and I am 22, so that makes this the first post of my 22nd year 🙂 And the second post this week lol!

Thursday went off well, it was nice and sunny when I woke up and it stayed that way all day, in fact I cant remember a year were it has not been sunny on my birthday!

I got a bookcase from my parents, I didn’t know what I wanted for my birthday, so that all I got, and £60!
From my sister I got a pack of beer, and £22!
From my girlfriend I got an MP3 player, a USB aquarium, and two Mr Bean cartoon DVD’s number 1 and 4!

The trip to the zoo lasted all day! We got there about 11:30 am and left just before 5:30 pm
We walked around every where, and I’ve got 59 photos to prove it!

On Friday we went to Cheddar Gorge

The day started off overcast, but it cleared about 2pm
We started off walking up and down the road looking in all the shops then we started walking up the road through the gorge.
Some where up that road we found a path up the hill side so we walked back along the top and back into Cheddar.
We got back to Cheddar about 5:15 pm, and we were walking for about 2 hours!
I’ve also got some photos from Cheddar, mainly of the views on our walk!

I’ve just opened a Flickr account so I’ll upload most of the photos there.
I’ve started with some of the other 200 odd photos I’ve got on my computer.
At the moment I’ve got some of the nicer close ups uploaded, but I will upload more.

Its Saturday evening and Bristol Rovers and Bristol City have both won their matches, and me and my girlfriend are now going out for some dinner!

Till next time.

I am still here!

This is just a quick post to say that I am still alive, and I haven’t forgotten about you or my website!
Its been just over two weeks since my last post, which is not long considering that there has been longer periods of no updates!

Anyway, tomorrow is my 22nd birthday, and me and my girlfriend have got the next couple of days off work, so we are going to enjoy the sun and go out
Possible places to go to are: Bristol Zoo, Chedder Gorge, and Brean!
This weekend is also a bank holiday weekend, so the roads are probably going to be extra busy on Friday and Saturday, so I’m not sure if we will be able to travel very far!

On another note our holiday to Jersey has been paid for, we are going for a week in the middle of July, so hopefully the weather should be hot and sunny!
This will be our first time away from the parents, so that should be fun!
Who’s going to cook! Lol!

Im off to work now
Till next time!

I’ve just washed my arms!

Thats it, I’m back!
I have been on and off overtime for the past month or two, but for that last two weeks, or at least since the 10th of April, I have been working every day!
Yes, I was even working on Easter Sunday!
But today was the last day, and I worked 11 and a half hours! I started at 8am and finished at 7:30pm

The reason, Stock take!

Yes, today was the last day, today we had to count the entire ambient warehouse, apart from the bits and pieces on the racking that was counted during that past couple of days.
That included all of the edible and non-ed cages, crisps, toilet rolls, drinks cages, euros, and a couple pallets of promo that came in delivery today!
Grocery had almost completly finished by about 6pm, that included health and beauty, and BWS, but not frozen, but it was close to completion!
And Grocery was the only department to finish first, just like a couple of years back when stock take was canceled due to the system being too slow, Grocery, or Ambient, was the only department to finish.

As I was dragging my tired ass out of the place the stock take team were preparing.

All nights have to do is work the new stock on delivery, then at 6am the stock takers can then start counting.

On Stock take Mondays nothing is worked, no updates to the system can be done, only tills are allowed to access the system!
We do not get the system back until about 6pm on Monday!

I was in the warehouse all day counting, and I’ve been home since about 8pm, but I’ve only just noticed that my forearms were filthy!

Siemens, Moto4Lin and Linux

This post is now two weeks late, so I am posting it for historical purposes
As to the story of connecting my phone to my computer is getting along, it is no further, I found the XMPM software that Siemens provided for Linux computers, and I have had come lights flashing on the cable, so there is hope!

Alright, I nearly got it working.From my installation of moto4lin, I nearly got some progress!

In the preference dialog box I set the ACM Device as /dev/ttyUSB0 and then clicked on “Update List” and the phone shows up, sort of!

Its got an AT Vendor ID of 067b, and AT Product ID of 2303, but there is no manufacturer, or product shown in the list.

If I select “Set as AT Device” then “Ok”, and then in the main window click on “Connect/Disconnect”

The display window displays

[info] AT phone found
[info] Switching device /dev/ttyUSB0 to P2K mode…
[error] Unable to connect

So it can see then phone, but then it tries to change to P2K mode which is where is all falls down!

As for gammu. I reinstalled it, changed the config file to point to /dv/ttyUSB0 and changed the model and connection to “at”

At the command line “gammu –identify” doesn’t do anything!

It looks like its busy doing something, but nothing comes up on the screen

Quick Post

With reference to my last post about posting an update on how connecting my Siemens mobile phone to my Linux computer is going.

I have not forgotten about it, I started typing it up Sunday morning, but then had to go off to work so I was unable to complete it. This has been the first time this week that I have been able to get onto my computer, and even then I’m off to work in 5 minutes!

I booted my PC into XP and connected my phone, and it is working, so the phone is not at fault.

I’m going to try again with Linux, I have not given up any hope at all!

In fact it was with XP that I downloaded the Lnux version of Mobile Phone Manager from Siemens, so I’m going to transfer the files to a partition that is mounted under Linux and try that.

Got to go.