I watched Luck Number Slevin today, it was pretty good, although not as good as it should have been with all those stars.

I’ve also been watching Stargate Atlantis Series 3 and playing a bit of Doom 3.

I’ve got to get the Xmas packages to Phil to pack in his Range Rover early this week.

I finally got desktop effects working on my laptop. I installed the 9629 Nvidia driver from Livna, and added:

Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP"

to the Device section of /etc/xorg.conf

The effects are really cool looking, and quite useful too – transparent windows is good for when you want a fullscreen website open but want to be able to type in a terminal window, the zoom is nice too, wobbly windows is a little annoying, fades/minimises are MacOSX-ish and the 3D desktop cube is old. It’s still nice to see that the not exactly modern Geforce4 series can easily cope with alphas etc.

I just reinstalled Fedora Core 6 on my laptop, this time not installing Xen and using the Livna repository instead of RPMforge. It went OK on the second run – the first time I managed to corrupt the RPM database by using yum and rpm at the same time and then killing rpmq/updatedb/prelink 😉

The RT2500 wireless driver went on after some playing – it seems that you need the options line in /etc/modprobe.conf and you have to replace linux/config.h with linux/autoconf.h in rt_config.h

I’ve done all my Xmas shopping now – well, Dad’s I’ll get when I get back to France, and when Mum & Pip do the Tesco order.

I got Pippa a couple of things, and some more stuff for Mum & Phil, card for Nanny, red/gold/silver collars for the cats etc.

Ipswich was ridiculously busy for a Sunday. I had a wander around Wilko’s and got some stuff like earbuds, shower gel and tissues.

Just watched the awful Slither, a real second-rate zombie/alien movie.

It’s been raining today so I didn’t go shopping, I’m going to go to Wilko’s and Clinton Cards tomorrow if the weather’s better. I might go and find ASDA too as I need to do some shopping and am getting fed-up with Tesco’s – it’s not as cheap as it used to be, and thee’s not much choice. Mind you Sainsbury’s is nextdoor to Wilkinsons….