http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/ 2010-09-03T01:40:42+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/ http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-06-25T12:32:16+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/accuoxford?rev=1277465536&do=diff The Oxford postcode area has more ACCU members than any other single postcode area. It seemed a pity to me that there was no local group, so a select group met for the inaugural meeting on 25/6/08. Meetings are held on Wednesdays, usually (but not exclusively) the last Wednesday of the month. To the extent that we can be said to have a default meeting place, it's the West Oxford Community Centre (WOCA) on Botley Road. Their website has directions. If you're coming by car, there is some car park… text/html 2009-09-24T10:48:10+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/acer5051awxmi?rev=1253785690&do=diff The motherboard on the old Vaio R600-HEP I've been using for work died at the start of 2007. I needed a new laptop in a hurry; nothing fancy, I use it for some light development work and reading mail while on the road. I dithered briefly over a cheapie Dell or the Acer, and ended up going for the Acer because it didn't look like the Dell offering had a 64bit CPU. There's a chance I might need to be doing some 64bit compilation during the lifetime of the beast. text/html 2007-11-23T11:03:27+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/aix?rev=1195815807&do=diff Work has a large deployment on AIX, so I've had to learn a little about AIX. I keep myself sane by installing a lot of Open Source tools on my AIX boxes. IBM have a good selection of packages available, though they are very conservative about issuing updates so versions are often quite old. text/html 2010-08-31T22:56:12+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/aix_packages?rev=1283291772&do=diff Information on various AIX packages I've made. These packages are provided as a service to the AIX community. I make no claim about their fitness or correctness. The only thing I promise about them is that they will take up space on your hard drive. text/html 2010-05-24T19:16:21+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/android?rev=1274724981&do=diff Debian Notes on developing on Debian. text/html 2008-05-14T11:01:51+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/anthillos?rev=1210759311&do=diff AnthillPro is a continuous integration system published by Urbancode. Once upon a time, way back in its life, Anthill was plain Anthill and there was an open source variant, Anthill OS. I started using this for automated building and packaging of work's projects about 4 years ago. Since then, I've added to it a couple of times to meet work requirements, first adding Subversion support and lately Mercurial support. text/html 2009-05-22T11:28:07+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/articles?rev=1242988087&do=diff * Inside a distributed version control system. Being a look at Mercurial and how it works. Written for the ACCU journal CVu. Download the PDF or read it online. text/html 2009-04-28T09:56:12+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/debian_nvidia_legacy_173xx_and_2.6.29?rev=1240908972&do=diff I have an ageing nVidia GeForce FX 5600XT. Support for this was recently dropped from the mainstream nVidia driver package, and relegated to legacy 173xx. This caused one minor problem. I build my own nVidia kernel module using module-assistant, (m-a). Right now this doesn't have an entry in its module list for the 173xx legacy module. text/html 2010-05-24T19:22:36+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/debiandroid?rev=1274725356&do=diff Configuring physical device access for ''adb'' You need to get the USB device permissions right. There's been a bit of confusion about this. Here's what I do. I created /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules. It contains: SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0bb4", SYMLINK+="android_adb", GROUP="plugdev" text/html 2010-01-20T09:51:51+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/dell_e5400?rev=1263981111&do=diff First the screen and then the power supply of the Acer 5051AWXMI I've been using for work died some 9 months after the warranty expired. Work said 'Pick a Dell', so I did. I wanted something not too large but with a screen with plenty of resolution. I picked the E5400 with the WXGA+ display after reading good things about its Linux compatibility. text/html 2010-07-27T16:32:16+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/fetchmailandvirginmediagmail?rev=1280244736&do=diff Virgin Media Gmail and Fetchmail Back at the end of May 2010, my home Virgin Media cable service switched from the old mail service to a new service based on Gmail. I was collecting mail from the mail servers with fetchmail using POP3 over SSL. This carried on working over the changeover. text/html 2007-06-01T10:44:17+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/hardware?rev=1180691057&do=diff Index into hardware-related pages. * Vaio VGN-A497XP disc change text/html 2008-09-26T10:55:24+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/here?rev=1222422924&do=diff Click on each image to see it full size. [Spectra 7046] [Typical 1970s machine room] [DecSystem 10-Ki10] [DecSystem-Ki10a] [IBM System/360] [IBM 3800 printer] [IBM 3420x] [IBM 3420 and 3480] [IBM 2501] [The famous IBM 029 card punch] [IBM 2301 storage drum] [IBM 2314 disc drive] [IBM 3330 disc drive] [Lots of 3350 drives] [3380 storage and controller] [IBM 4248 impact printer. Note large flashing paper out light.] [IBM 3850 installation] [IBM 3278 terminal] text/html 2008-08-27T15:49:08+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/k550i_as_modem?rev=1219848548&do=diff Work demands mean that when out and about I may have an urgent need to hook my laptop to an internet connection. Wifi is all very well, but sometimes you need to fall back on the resources of a mobile phone network. Connecting to the net You can use Bluetooth or a USB lead to connect the phone to the laptop. In either case, you then proceed by setting up a dial-up connection. I use KPPP. text/html 2010-07-27T16:33:28+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/linux?rev=1280244808&do=diff I've been a Linux user for quite a while now. Remember Yggdrasil? Some random Linux related items: * Linux on the Acer 5051AWXMi laptop * Synching with the Sony-Ericsson K550i * Using a K550i as a modem for mobile internet * Typing Czech on a UK keyboard * Debian and nVidia legacy 173xx * Linux on the Dell E5400 laptop * Virgin Media, Gmail and fetchmail text/html 2010-05-24T19:12:34+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/software?rev=1274724754&do=diff Being software that I'm working on, have worked on or forgotten about. AnthillOS Continuous integration manager. Android Notes on Android development. text/html 2010-05-05T10:05:41+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/start?rev=1273050341&do=diff This isn't a blog. It's more like my public notepad. Bits of this and that which someone else might one day find useful. What's here? * Software. * Hardware. * Linux stuff. * AIX stuff. My Mercurial AIX packages are here. * A few talks I have given or articles I've written. * ACCU Oxford. text/html 2007-11-27T10:09:46+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/synching_with_the_sony_ericsson_k550i?rev=1196158186&do=diff My old Sony Ericsson T630 has, poor thing, found a watery grave at the bottom of the River Cherwell. Its replacement is a Sony Ericcson K550i. I had my contacts list from the old phone backup up to my laptop using Multisync over Bluetooth. So the first big question - would I be able to restore the backup onto the K550i? text/html 2008-11-08T15:17:44+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/talks?rev=1226157464&do=diff * To Distribute Or Not To Distribute: How to know your DVCS from your CVCS with Russel Winder. A look at the version control scene, focusing on the the wonderful new world of Distributed Version Control. I cover Mercurial, Russel covers Bazaar. text/html 2008-08-27T15:51:56+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/topbar?rev=1219848716&do=diff * Tech stuff * Software * AnthillOS * Hardware * Linux * Acer 5051AWXMi laptop * Sync with K550i * Dialup with K550i * AIX * AIX packages text/html 2008-04-28T21:25:48+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/touran?rev=1209414348&do=diff I had a car for sale. But it is now sold. Thanks for looking here, anyway. text/html 2007-11-13T09:50:56+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/typing_czech_on_uk_keyboard?rev=1194947456&do=diff So, here I am using both KDE and Gnome on Debian systems and intermittently trying to acquire a smattering of Czech. Czech uses the Roman alphabet, but has some accented characters. I want to be able to type these characters from my GB layout 105 key PC keyboard under both Gnome and KDE. How can I do it? text/html 2007-06-01T18:12:34+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/vaio_vgn-a497xp_disc_change?rev=1180717954&do=diff I recently had occasion to change the hard drive on work's Sony Vaio VGN-A497XP. Google turned up a useful guide at here, but the original page is now gone and we're left with the archive on the Wayback Machine. I followed those instructions. Here's my experience. text/html 2008-05-29T22:20:55+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/whoami?rev=1212096055&do=diff I'm Jim Hague. That's me, on the right. [My picture] I'm based in Oxford. That's Oxford, as in ancient city of learning athwart the Thames, in England. The city boasts two universities. I am nothing to do with either of them. I write software. Like a lot of programmers, I get paid for doing this during the day, and don't get paid for doing it at other times. In non-techie company I call myself a software engineer. text/html 2009-03-15T14:52:12+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/wireless?rev=1237128732&do=diff 2x wireless PCI cards, and a wireless access point. These are 802.11b, last generation wireless kit, so have a maximum speed of 11Mbps. Manuals and drivers included. [Picture of items] text/html 2007-03-10T17:33:07+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/wrt54gl?rev=1173547987&do=diff I needed to beef up my home wireless setup recently, and rearrange the domestic network generally. I got a Linksys WRT-54GL. It's now the home internet gateway, I've replaced the original firmware with OpenWRT. I was attracted by its package range and general Debian-like package flexibility.