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Apr. 6th, 2005
ROFL! I so need to use the band name
Apr. 6th, 2005 09:07 pmRichard Thomas Kilpatrick's Aliases |
Your movie star name: Peanut Thomas |
Your fashion designer name is Richard Berlin |
Your socialite name is Killer Moscow |
Your fly girl / guy name is R Kil |
Your detective name is Cat Kelso |
Your barfly name is Chocolate Whisky |
Your soap opera name is Thomas Ollerton |
Your rock star name is Grape Bad News |
Your star wars name is Ricmor Kilsia |
Your punk rock band name is The Scowly Xaphoon |
Mars Rovers still going strong!
Apr. 6th, 2005 09:52 pmI didn't even know they had lasted this long, after all my excitement when they first landed. Apparently both Spirit and Opportunity are rolling around Mars collecting samples and having a generally good time of it.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/06/nasa_approves_extension/
Also - Mac people - I just bought myself a new mouse because three buttons does seem to make OS X far more useful. I was searching for Bluetooth ones for my PowerBook (I found one, stay away from it *grrr*) but for my G5, I was rather pleased to find this:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5181108301
One of those MacMice "The Mouse" jobs, that looks just like an Apple mouse in design but has the three buttons and scrollwheel. I find the Aluminium ones look a bit too painted for my liking (not that it's stopping me wanting that kind for the PowerBook), I think white looks awful and wish Apple had come up with something more like the granite SGI keyboard for the G5, but black suits everything.
£24 including postage. Not the cheapest mouse, but 1/3rd the price of a new Bluetooth one at least. The reason I don't want a USB mouse for my PowerBook is the fact that it makes it happy to boot up in headless mode, making sleep behaviour sometimes unpredictable.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/06/nasa_approves_extension/
Also - Mac people - I just bought myself a new mouse because three buttons does seem to make OS X far more useful. I was searching for Bluetooth ones for my PowerBook (I found one, stay away from it *grrr*) but for my G5, I was rather pleased to find this:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5181108301
One of those MacMice "The Mouse" jobs, that looks just like an Apple mouse in design but has the three buttons and scrollwheel. I find the Aluminium ones look a bit too painted for my liking (not that it's stopping me wanting that kind for the PowerBook), I think white looks awful and wish Apple had come up with something more like the granite SGI keyboard for the G5, but black suits everything.
£24 including postage. Not the cheapest mouse, but 1/3rd the price of a new Bluetooth one at least. The reason I don't want a USB mouse for my PowerBook is the fact that it makes it happy to boot up in headless mode, making sleep behaviour sometimes unpredictable.
PS2 Linux kit
Apr. 6th, 2005 10:00 pmAnyone want it?
£50 including postage for the kit. USB keyboard & mouse, 40Gb HD, network/HD adaptor, VGA monitor adaptor, DVDs. Everything that it came with. Another £10 and I'll include the genuine 8Mb memory card that I had to get to install the PS2 Linux Kernel onto (as you need one to use it; if you already have a spare memory card you can dedicate to it then you don't need this).
Ideally suited to later iLink capable models, Ir models need a patch for networking in some cases. Also not suited to the PS2 Slim, obviously.
£50 including postage for the kit. USB keyboard & mouse, 40Gb HD, network/HD adaptor, VGA monitor adaptor, DVDs. Everything that it came with. Another £10 and I'll include the genuine 8Mb memory card that I had to get to install the PS2 Linux Kernel onto (as you need one to use it; if you already have a spare memory card you can dedicate to it then you don't need this).
Ideally suited to later iLink capable models, Ir models need a patch for networking in some cases. Also not suited to the PS2 Slim, obviously.