Oooh - new meerkat default wallpaper has appeared #ubuntu #meerkat
Names changed to protect the guilty.
<Manager> The SAN has arrived at [redacted] :)
<Sysadmin> fun and games
<Developer> first to fill it with 1’s wins…
<Sysadmin> I think I can do: dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/san/somefile bs=1T count=3
<Jes> Sysadmin: I wonder how dd feels about a blocksize of 1TB ?
<Sysadmin> its in the manpage
<Sysadmin> so it must be fine! :-)
<Jes> doesn’t it need to be able to read the entire bs into memory/swap at once?
*Sysadmin tries it and sees
*** Sysadmin has left the room
*** Sysadmin has joined the room as a moderator and an owner
<Sysadmin> yeah don’t do that
Trying out Ubuntu 10.10. Some gorgeous included artwork.
Dropbox you and your blue icon are really ruining my colour scheme here
Phillips GoGear Spark 4GB. Very very tiny, surprisingly good user interface, and quite good sound quality. Fits in the tiny pouch my Sennheiser in-ear phones came in alongside the headphones. Very impressed with this thing for $69 from DSE on sale. The only real downside is I had to convert my AAC to MP3 for it as it doesn’t support many formats.
I picked it up as my Nexus One sounds absolutely dreadful through my in-ear phones, but really great through my huge Sennheiser HDsomethingsomethings. I’m suspecting some impedance mismatch. At first I was thinking of getting some better quality large headphones for the Nexus One (my Sennheiser HDs I picked up very cheaply for gaming and have a really cheap and nasty cable) then realised that a micro MP3 player would be both cheaper and easier to carry around than new headphones.
Installing Fedora on my work laptop and discovered Bluecurve theme is still available. Aw, the nostalgia!
Today’s Ubuntu work desktop. I feel very calm.
I’ve finally settled on an Ubuntu theme. I might even keep it for longer than a day.
