Category: Wayback Retrieval
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Ten-hut! House inspection time!
Today was the day of the Grand Inspection by my paternal grandparents of the new kitchen. I am pleased to report that the work has been approved of! Need to get the channels filled in, and the wall re-skimmed where the tiles left holes. After that, I’ll have to decide on the splashback, and the…
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Pop goes the heating pump
As mentioned earlier, the pump that drives my entire hot water system (heating and hot water for the taps) decided to die this morning. Called the friendly plumber who did my new bathroom sink this morning fairly early, but didn’t have his mobile, so had to leave a message on his answering machine at home. …
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Breezy to Dapper upgrade
I figured that I’d upgrade my work PC to Ubuntu Dapper this morning. In retrospect, considering that my heating and hot water pump died this morning, and dropped water all over my floor, I really shouldn’t have done this upgrade. Things that broke: GUI KDE Sound Networking Who knows what else The GUI required a…
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Google Earth, for Linux
Well, with Beta 4 of Google Earth, you can now run it on Linux. I’ve just tested it on my Kubuntu box at work (ATI graphics card, ATI driver), and it worked brilliantly. Went hunting for the place I grew up, and managed to find a decent res image at 13°12′11.60″N by 59°33′59.28″W. Where I…
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Day 8 of the kitchen installation…
So the gas fitter came and went, but not without remarking that there were no mounting brackets for the hob, and that the plinth below the oven needs a 12 mm gap to be legal. Steve is apparently available on Thursday to fix that issue, so the plinth is off for now. All that’s left…
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ADODB, PHP and transactions
I ran into an interesting glitch (and that’s not for lack of a better term) in the ADODB library for PHP today. ADODB is a DB abstraction layer, allowing me to change the underlying DB engine without caring (much) about the code I’ve written. Change the driver name, perhaps the connection string, and everything should…