My new netbook, well my first netbook. It’s such a beautiful and light laptop - now the only problem I’ve had so far is that it’s not loading add/remove programs as it can’t contact the server which as I was told in the #linuxactionshow room by Nikosapi is due to the Fedora servers being compromised in the last couple of weeks and the main servers have been taken offline.

Processor

Clock speed	1.6 GHz
Processor type	Atom N270
Processor manufacturer	Intel

RAM

RAM installed	512 MB

Motherboard

Chipset type	Intel - 954GSE + ICH 7M

Storage Hard Drive

Hard drive type	NAND flash memory
Hard drive size	8 GB

Dimensions / Weight

Dimensions (W x H x D)	249×29x170mm
Weight	995 kg

So as you see, awesome specs with a fresh glossy screen with 1024*600 resolution. I’ll post my full review in a few days

Well I’ve encountered Paypals fraud team investigating a person whom I sold a laptop too, which meant my £200 was witheld meaning I couldn’t buy a EEE at Lug Radio Live, shame. Lug Radio Live was a great experience with some brilliant talks including AI and philosophy and a great after show party where there was alot of beer and karaoke. The exhibitors were brilliant; people from effcient PC showing off their EEE’s with ubuntu netbook remix on it which looked amazing, as well as the guys from Linux Outlaws (the podcast)

All in all a great weekend and I shall be posting the few pictures I took on this blog soon, if you want to see what happened though just search on flickr for the tag lugradio.

Had a bit of fun yesterday when I posted on gumtree an advert for my laptop which I’m selling. I got a reply from a Rachel Sielski (A stolen identity I’ll assume) saying:

Wondering if your item is still available, I am interested, Where are you located? And how much are you offering me if i can come and pick the item up in your home and pay cash. Thanks

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It’s quite an easy and quick to learn language, my first project is a Triangle program so the user can figure out the angles and length of the sides of a variety of triangles. I will be posted some of the code in the next few days.


#! /usr/bin/python
# filename triangle.py
print ('a: Right Angled Triangle, b: Isocelies, c:Equilateral')
usertriangle = raw_input('Which type of triangle is yours? :')
if usertriangle == 'a':
print ('A Right Angled Triangle eh?.')
elif usertriangle == 'b':
print ('Ooh Isocelies')
elif usertriangle == 'c':
print ('Ah an equilateral')
else :
print ('Please enter either a,b or c'


This is just a simple get input from the user and based on what they choose it prints relevant information, if they don’t enter a, b or c then it will ask them to enter one of those. It get the input by using the raw_input function. More to come as I expand just thought I’d let people see how a very simple program working on user input works.

It deeply saddens the four of us to announce that we are closing the book on SIKTH… it’s time to split up.

A combination of factors have driven us to make this decision.

We want to assure you that if it were viable for us to carry on - we would.

We are so proud of all that we have achieved as Sikth and we have agreed to work together again in the future.

we are currently involved in new projects so keep checking our personal pages for announcements.

And finally, we owe such huge and sincere thanks to all of you for listening to our music and enabling us to live our dream. We know we have left you in the dark lately and we are sorry for that.

Your loyalty will never be forgotten.

No more Sikth, extremely saddening. One of the greatest bands I’ve ever seen live and heard on CD - It’s a shame they couldn’t of found new singers and taken Sikth to another level.

It’s up, now begins the task of getting members and building a community. Thanks to Kent who has been uber patient, no thanks to anyone who left us in the lurch or could provide the service they paid for.

Time to sleep!

Finally, since the sites basic conception around May last year in the form of an idea we finally have a site to go live. We have been through one developer, thousands of pounds in wasted development, time, effort and advertisers patience.

Since the end of January I have been working on a Joomla based website, with articles, social networking features such as: blogs, groups, event postings, forums, friends, profiles. Along with the social networking features we have a big push on sports and keeping healthy with a training log, BMI calculator, and other great sport related features. Along with all this we have games, videos and much more stuff.

We are planning to go live tonight and start building a community around the website.I need to get back to work now!

No not running Adobe CS3 on Linux I mean an alternative. Packaging applications such as Nvu, GIMP, Cinerella, Inkscape etc into a suite much like Adobe CS3 providing as tight as integration as adobes release has.

After listening to the most recent lugradio where they interviewed Dave Neary about Libre Graphics Meeting where he told the team that alot has been done to improbe interoperability between the open source programs allowing you to drag and drop between say GIMP and Inkscape, I would appreciate greater integration as Dreamweaver and Photoshop has, allowing you to right click an image in Dreamweaver and edit it in Photoshop.

With developers working on a more unified UI for these applications, and much much more integration I could see this happening, and the fact they are open source makes it easier.

Would this improve linux adoption if there was a suite such as CS3 available with tighter intergration between all the types of produce.

Okay, I’ve noticed alot of my hits coming from people trying to find the iPlayer user agent requirements on the iPhone so:

“Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3″

Without the quotations, along with this you will probably need to check out Paul Batteys site for the latest in the BBC iPlayer cat and mouse games.

Be warned this is a rant.

After literally just speaking to an artist who worked for a company we hired to build us (Mellow Munkee) a website, I asked about obtaining the source image files for the website as the whole thing fell through in the end due to an (and apologies for the bad language) absolute shit head of a business owner who owes the old web developer £2000, apparently.

So now thanks to IP and all that bull I can’t get my hands on any source files for the layout, now I could understand if we got any of the actual site code but it was a proprietary site built in C# and compiled so after 9 months, £5000 we have been left with 0.

you won’t be getting them off me. david recons everything i did under ******** technologies is his property

I can’t get them off the artist, I can’t get them off the developer as he still feels he’s owed money even though we have nothing to show for the £5000 he already has received and took liberties with the deadlines. Once again thanks to the world of crappy IP and selfish people I’m left to clear up the mess. Also a final point, I was not involved when the decision was made to go with a CMS I couldn’t get source to.