A Day of Sorting...

Posted in Updates on 28th December 2003

Started by shopping and cleaning. Moved things around a bit here in the flat to accommodate the second machine on a semi-permanent basis. Set about fixing bits and bobs on this site. In the process got a 'search' function going, which attempts to highlight the occurences of the string entered...

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More Green Ink on the Baker...

Posted in Railways on 27th December 2003

Decided to take advantage of some Great Western diversions to get some unusual track today. Chose the first day of service after the holidays, and also one on which there was network-wide engineering work happening. Hence, I had a lot of company all day! Set out for Westbury to pick...

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The Return of the Duron

Posted in Computers on 26th December 2003

Finally got around to piecing together the various spare parts I have lying around here, and resurrecting the Duron. With 256Mb of RAM and a 20Gb drive I got ridiculously cheaply on eBay, it makes a reasonably good machine. Kicked off an ftp install of SuSE which didn't seem to...

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