I’ve been playing around with version control today. Instead of just recreating an old Subversion repository, I thought I’d try out Git. So I install git-svn and imported the old SVN repo, and within seconds had a working Git repo. What I like so far is that you only have your local copy, you don’t need a /var/svn or svn-over-http on a webserver, just ~/svn or whatever. The strange thing is that you have to ‘add’ changes before you can ‘commit’.

I went to Kev’s yesterday and this morning to build his new PC. I was tempted to get something similar but held off until we could see how well Kev’s build went. It took 2.5 hours to build, and under an hour more to install Vista and overclock. This has got to be some kind of record as usually I take a day to build and gradually overclock. He’s got a 2.

Myself and a colleague wasted most of today (and some of yesterday) trying to get a VMWare installation of XP to connect to the office domain, after mucking around with various settings, IP configuration, services and Windows patches we got as far as “access denied”, which we assume is due to our users not having permissions to actually join a domain – although in true Windows fashion, the error message probably relates to something like we’ve got the wrong wallpaper/screensaver or something entirely unrelated to access permissions.

I went out on Saturday to go to the bank. Well, after discovering that the place didn’t seem to be anywhere near the massive number of car parks on Google Maps (how often do they update their satellite images?!) I didn’t actually manage to get anywhere near it due to roadworks, and didn’t fancy walking about 4 miles to it from the town centre carpark, so I’m just sticking the paperwork in the post now.

I’ve just converted a load of my old BBC BASIC V and ARM Assembler programs from tokenised to ASCII files using Brandy. Most of my old ASM programs are graphical so don’t work under Brandy, but I guess would under ArcEm, Arculator, or if VirtualAcorn ever do a Linux port. Here’s one of my favourites – a screensaver I wrote that uses chaos theory to make a “life” simulation. It was so fast I had to slow it down a bit for StrongARM usage….