I finally recorded and uploaded an episode of Hacker Public Radio! HPR is a community podcast where listeners record shows on whatever they like and share with others. I recorded a short show about installing Linux and Windows to an external USB hard drive. It was really easy to do and I encourage anyone to try doing it too, I’ve got a ton of ideas myself. Here’s a link to my contributor page.
Low Tech Standing Desk
Inspired by all the standing desks I’ve been seeing on Boing Boing etc, I present the one I made with the few materials at my disposal. The HP box is at the perfect height!
There, that'll do!
Server upgrade
Things might be broken for a bit
Minecraft vid
I made a Minecraft video, might do more if I can get Openshot to work better.
Been a while…
Been a while since my last post. I have a review in my drafts of the ebook reader we got for Xmas which I might finish. I should probably talk about Minecraft as it is the only game I play these days and I did start looking at how easy it is to install Doom on Linux.
The big thing at the moment is that I’m co-writing a novel with the wife. Started using Etherpad but now trying Google Docs. It’s coming along, over 12000 words so far. I’ll be starting a new site and the plan is to serialise it once we have a good draft and use that to get feedback.
Anyway, speak soon!
Experiences of an IT Technician
I’ve been working here for over a year now and while I’ve done a lot of cool stuff with the radio station and learning PHP etc, I’ve recently been doing a lot more traditional IT Tech work. We have two brand new labs full of lovely new HP machines, all with Windows 7 on and all need to be locked down for the average smart-arse college student.
Acer Aspire Revo With XBMC and Ubuntu 10.10
Got a new toy this week. Acer’s Nettop is very neat and I got it to be an alternative to the big tower we have to watch our stories on.
Radio Blah Blah
At the college where I work I’ve set up an internet radio station. So far it’s mainly been random tracks using Liquidsoap but last week I did my first live show, so I thought I would chat about my setup a bit.