My home (btw - Microdirect suck)

Thought I would post a quick picture of my desk, its quite a state atm; but is quite a pleasant place to work. And the light is usually that high, its very bright so I keep it out of direct sight. (Click of larger image)

I got my PC down on the right behind the chair, its 2.2ghz, 4gig RAM, and at the moment running Vista and Debian (I am working on some software for a client running linux). To the left of my monitor is my EEE PC 701, basically an email terminal, but also run IM and do random research on there. I am running synergy which allows me to move mouse and keyboard between the two, but have a spare mouse there still for some reason.

You can just see my 360 down on the right, there is a KVM switch on the floor (so I can switch using my foot!) and my current electronics project on the left of the desk. And the rest is random equipment / books / rubbish :)

Oh and microdirect suck, put an order in for a new router last Thursday (current router dies more often than I drink coffee, and I drink a lot of coffee), paid for next working day delivery. Ok, so I put the order in at midnight, but 1 working day after Friday is Monday, and with 2 non-working days in between Monday is a good guess, wrong, its late on Tuesday and its not here yet :( Long live ebuyer !!!

Posted in: Randomness September 2008 No Comments Martyn

Been a while, again.

I am not too good at keeping this blog updated. Meh. Anyhow, new things :) I managed to get a sparkfun order off and now have some nice new toys to talk about; as part of my 4th year project I need an intertial measurement unit, so I am building one! Nothing too fancy as I just need it to be accurate for 2 or 3 seconds duing a turn of a mircomouse, but is a nice way to get back into micorcontroller programming after many months of looking at lines of c#.

Other new things include a new hard drive, after having 8gig left I invested in a 750gig HD from ebuyer, problem solved. Also have an Eee PC now, hopefully it will help with taking / organizing notes in lectures. And finally I snapped up a cheap server off ebay, £40 for a 1.2Ghz, 1Gig RAM, 80Gig HD in a 1u case, inc. delivery. It now has ubuntu server on it, and my plan is to install a subversion server to allow me to syncronise notes etc. between computers.

Also on a simliarish subject I am looking for a way to synchronise Outlook / Evolution calendars through an online service (preferably one I can run myself). Anyone have any ideas?

Posted in: News September 2008 No Comments Martyn