Work was pretty quiet today, lots of people off sick or on half-term. I’m fighting off a cold myself. I chatted to Pip and she’s done my taxes, I’ve got to send off some paperwork tomorrow. Pip got one of my Freesat cards working, so with the one I’ve bought, I will hopefully have five, and can sell the Welsh card with the Amstrad box. Phoned Mum, she’s working on a quilt or something for my new house.

Just watched Jarhead, which was pretty good, showed just how pointless the Gulf War was – 5000 Marines sitting in the desert for 6 months, only actually at war for 5 days, many never even fired their guns. I’ve been trying to install MS-DOS 6.22 and WFWG 3.11 in VMWare, but can’t remember how to install and boot that old shiz! Chatted to Pip earlier, apparently none of my Sky Freesat cards work, so I just bought another one off eBay, and might be able to get hold of another two.

I Was up until 3am this morning, I’ve got the programming bug I guess! I’ve downloaded a lot more ebooks too. I converted my DVD database to PostgreSQL. It wasn’t actually that difficult, I just changed the following: PHP: mysql_connect to pg_connect mysql_fetch_array to pg_fetch_array mysql_query changed to pg_query SQL: LIMIT x,y changed to LIMIT y OFFSET x NULL changed to DEFAULT on the serial column Schema: auto_increment column changed to serial

Just watched X-Men 3 at the cinema, it was pretty good, seemed a little rushed – maybe they’ll make an X-Men 3.5 like they had to with 1.5, as they left so much out of the theatrical realease. It was better than X2, and despite being called “The Last Stand”, there could be an X4, especially if you see the bits just before and just after the end credits, Halle Berry alluded to it too.

I just installed a new version of quickcode, used below. Also did a huge yum update on Solo, which included a new kernel, which means that I then need to install the NVidia drivers, and run vmware-config.pl (rebuild vmmon modules) and vmware-config-mui.pl (generate new SSL cert). Then to build the webcam driver: rm -rf /lib/modules/2.6.11.11.something/kernel/drivers/usb/media/pwc /sbin/rmmod pwc wget http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/files/pwc-10.0.12-rc1.tar.bz2 tar -jxvf pwc-10.0.12-rc1.tar.bz2 cd pwc-10.0.12-rc1 make && make install chmod 744 /lib/modules/2.