Got some really quite agressive snail mail from some people calling themselves the EU Domain Registry even worse than the American one from the 13th. Have to follow it up with the ASA.

Finally got the fileserver put together. Putting in the CPU heatsink was a bitch and I was _sure_ I'd buggered up the CPU in the process. Had a nasty momment when the thing wouldn't boot. It was giving me CMOS checksum error - defaults loaded Found these posts that suggested it was because the FSB was set wrong in the BIOS. Once I'd figured how to get to that, it's under Soft Menu, I

The Antec Performance Plus case arrived today for the fileserver I'm building for work. There's a nice bit in the manual that comes with it that says "Please don't use your fingernails to try to pry panels off"

Received some snail mail from Domain Registry of America telling me that a couple of my domains were coming up for renewal, urging me to transfer them over to them. This article in The Register along with countless other postings show them to be a bunch of scammers. Not sure what I can do to escalate it though, it looks like they have made an effort to make the flyer less misleading and so

Been tied up in the studio and at work so SGI activity has been limited to using the IndyCam to work on a highly saturated self portrait

Did some skip raiding on Sunday, there was this DEC Alphaserver dumped in a skip outside the flats: Someone had already cleared out the RAID array and the memory but I was able to get the CD-ROM, Floppy and Network Card. I'm hoping to use the CD-ROM in place of hermes, which has now gone to a charity shop in Clapham, to load software onto the SGIs. Don't know if I'll be able to use the

Down at my Mother's briefly before xmas so picked up a Sinclair QL which had been languishing in the loft. Packaged it up to send off to Ian Mapleson for his 8 bit museum:

Tried to install the electronic Hardens restaurant guide but to no avail, by chance managed to find my paper copy that had fallen behind the bookshelves, it is slightly bigger than the jordana...

Picked up an HP Jornada 720, now called leila - the phone is called kiff. This page suggests that the Netgear MA401 card I got free with my router should work with CE devices if the appropriate Compaq driver is installed. Before I could try this out I needed to install Active Sync from here Got that working over infrared with my Thinkpad but it bombs out at the end of the install

In my on going efforts to get the graphics tablet working I bought some serial cable terminators from Videk. The plan is to change the one on the end of the mini din to PC serial I bought from them: This is going to require some soldering, which I've never done before, should be fun. Bought a 36Gig disc from Ian Mapleson Plan is to put it in the drive casing I got off eBay a while back.

Ian Mapleson was able to put me right on why the hinv was showing so many SCSI units; bad jumper settings... Having trouble with the IndyVideo, can't get anything on the S-Video in... Confidence checks aren't much help either. Know that the source is okay as it will play in fine from Vino... Decided to leave it for a bit...then it occured to me that having the IndyCam plugged into the

Here's the new hinv for zoidy, complete with IndyVideo and CosmoCompress CPU: MIPS R4400 Processor Chip Revision: 6.0 FPU: MIPS R4000 Floating Point Coprocessor Revision: 0.0 1 200 MHZ IP22 Processor Main memory size: 192 Mbytes Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 1 Mbyte on Processor 0 Instruction cache size: 16 Kbytes Data cache size: 16 Kbytes Integral SCSI controller 0:

Didn't have SerialDeviceManager installed, which caused some problems getting the tablet driver working. Somewhat naivily tried a gender changer on the serial cable to see if it would make it work...it didn't Asked videk if there was a way I could find out what the colour coding for the cable was so that I could change the terminator it used. They said no but that I could use a multimeter

Switched over to Mozilla Firebird, harder, faster, better... Slightly nearer to having a working Wacom tablet; got a 8 pin mini din to 25 DB serial cable from videk in North London. The 25 DB end is the wrong gender. Reluctant to just buy a gender changer when its possible that the wiring from the 8 pin to the 25 is either wrong for what I want to do or incomplete...think I should take it

Wanted to get the Flash plug-in working with Mozilla, so downloaded the tardist from the SGI site. It claimed a dependency on Mozilla 1.3 for the Mozilla bindings. I have 1.5 installed so something was clearly amiss. This post put me right though, you just need to sim link from Mozilla's plug-ins dir to the place where swmgr had installed the Flash player, and not bother installing the

That's odd, the Freeware CDs are not EFS... The README that appears in Software Manager tells me that they are Mapleson Specials so I guess he just wrote them as regular SheeDees. Installed the latest build of Mozilla on Zoidy, needed the GTK libs, which were on the Mapleson CDs, and it works wonderfully. This is the first blog post to actually be filed from Zoidy rather than one of the Win32

Blender needed libCio, fixed that and now it's working...

Can't get DNS to work, that'll be resolv.conf Restart, hangs on "The System is coming up" Restart, dropped into system maintenance, hangs there. Took the debian box off the network Restart, okay. Shutdown, put Debian box back on the network, restarted, no change. I must be missing something here as DNS is now working...

Couldn't remember where you put nfs info. it is of course /etc/exports, not that Software Manager needs it...

Installed rsh-server package Set up /etc/hosts.equiv and ~guest/.rhosts so that the shuttle is authorised to rsh on hermes and ta-da! it worked: rsh 192.168.3.4 -l guest ls -la total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 guest guest 1024 Nov 6 13:08 . drwxrwsr-x 4 root staff 1024 Nov 4 20:42 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 guest guest 266 Nov 4 20:42 .alias -rw-r--r-- 1 guest