The Eve of St. Agnes
Posted in London on 21st January 2004
I could barely afford to travel to London this week, given the time of the month, the fact its January and the ridiculous fares during the week. However, having checked all possible discounts I settled on a trip the 'long way round' via Salisbury to Waterloo. Hopped off at Clapham...
Two Old Friends
Posted in Computers on 18th January 2004
I love my digital camera. Its a Kodak DC210. It only works via the serial port, and its old. I specifically sought one out on eBay because I'd borrowed one and it worked perfectly in the old gtk 1.x version of gphoto. More importantly, it was so simple even I...
Two heads are better than one slightly fuzzy and out of focus head
Posted in Computers on 18th January 2004
Since I managed to get an improvement in quality on the LCD using the DVI port on the Radeon, I decided to try setting up my old Dell Ultrascan 15" monitor on the VGA port. With some very simple tweaking, got X running both heads sensibly. Starting GNOME also 'just...