| Birkbeck and Ubuntu |
[Sep. 5th, 2009|07:19 pm] |
I'm starting an MSc in Ethnicity, Migration and Policy at Birkbeck in October 2009. It'll be 2 evenings a week for the first term, and one evening after that.
As I use Ubuntu at home, and all the IT instructions are Windows or Mac I will write about how I solve various problems as it may be of use to someone.
Birkbeck has a VPN students can connect to. This gives you access to some electronic resources at home and allows you to access your College network N: drive.
If you right click on your network manager -> edit connections -> VPN you will see that the add button is greyed out. Bah!
To fix this you need to install:
sudo apt-get install network-manager-pptp
The IP address is 193.61.20.50, username and password are as normal for the College network.
NT domain: CCSACADEMIC
Go to the advanced tab and deselect everything except MSCHAP v2. Select MPPE and maximum (128 bit) encryption.
And.. it doesn't work! ARRGH.
Could be a bug. http://is.gd/2VBiq is looking likely. |
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| Dreamwidth |
[Jun. 21st, 2009|12:08 am] |
I have two Dreamwidth codes if you want one.
First come first served! |
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 17th, 2008|10:30 pm] |
If anyone wants a Christmas card and I don't have your address please send it to me. Thanks!
/me has the cards but not the addresses.. |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 7th, 2008|05:08 am] |
I've really been neglecting Live Journal. You are much more likely to find me on twitter or on google reader, or elsewhere..
I have some news:
I had an interview on Wednesday and I have a job starting on Monday 15th! Yay! |
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| Advice wanted |
[Sep. 1st, 2008|12:23 am] |
I'm considering setting up a specialist linux blog. If I want to use something like wordpress I'll need php and mysql. My ISP's webpages provide neither.
Any recommendations for a suitable provider? How do other people do this?
Thanks. |
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| (no subject) |
[Aug. 16th, 2008|12:02 am] |
My Live Journal paid account has expired - and I'm not going to renew. I'm back to basic but the snap things are annoying me. Is there anything I need to know re: the new basic accounts. What is the maximum of 25 thing in the docs?
"Subscribe to LiveJournal events on the Manage Message Settings page or use the "track" icon (or a "Track New Comments" link) on each entry, comment, and userinfo page. After subscribing to events, your notifications are listed in the Message Center; you can also choose to receive email notifications for all or individual events."
Does this mean I won't get emails on comments for more than 25 threads? |
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| laptot |
[Aug. 3rd, 2008|11:31 pm] |
Laptot finally has Ubuntu Netbook Remix on. My external USB 1 CDRW died whilst I was trying to install from it, and doesn't work on Hardy anyway. uUsing a USB stick caused Hardy to install grub onto the mbr of the usb stick. This meant that neither the stick nor the laptot worked...
I bought an external dvdrw today which was extra cost I didn't need, but my life is much shinier now. I hope I get another job after my last day on Tuesday.. |
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| (no subject) |
[Aug. 1st, 2008|08:49 pm] |
I've just suffered PC World and bought a netbook/laptot. I didn't get an eee, I got the Advent 4211 netbook.
It's very shiny! It is a Dixon's branded MSI Wind with an Intel Atom N270 CPU running at 1600 Mhz, an 80GB SATA drive and 1GB DDR2 (which is allegedly upgradeable).
The only drawback I can see is that it comes with WindowsXP! (which I'm just about to fix!)
I'm going to try the Ubuntu "Netbook Remix". This seems to be some extra packages for hardy designed for this hardware. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 21st, 2008|06:35 pm] |
Found out today that I didn't get the perm job :( I've been given 2 weeks notice.
The feedback is all positive, there were just more experienced candidates :( |
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| Saturday |
[Jul. 12th, 2008|10:39 pm] |
Today I got my act together and went to one of the open days at Battersea Power Station, which has yet more developers and another scheme which won't come to anything.
Southwark Lido is a very expensive looking 3 day installation as part of the London Festival of Architecture. It's too small to swim in, and had some of the "London's Largest Livingroom" furniture.
It didn't flush, and there was no door. It was stupidly tempting though, and I only had one beer.. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 11th, 2008|09:40 pm] |
Had mega stress today which I'll write about later. I cheered myself by going wandering after work.
This is a ruined church near London Bridge, shot using the cameraphone of the phone I haven't yet got my number transferred to. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 10th, 2008|09:01 pm] |
Been trying to go out every lunchtime to photo geek. This week has been with the camera phone for ease (and wetness), last week with the DSLR.
A bench from the London Festival of Architecture's London's Largest Living Room has appeared outside the Museum of London.
Apart from that it's just all building porn.. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 8th, 2008|07:44 pm] |
I survived the interview although I was a nervous wreck all morning. I'll find out at the end of next week.
Whatever happens it looks like I'll be working here for another month at least. |
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| phone geekery |
[Jul. 5th, 2008|06:14 pm] |
Yesterday's payday brought a replacement for my £20 phone with its terrible t9 support. (*)
I currently have a t-mobile pay-as-you-go thing, and a £30/month contract with Vodafone for HSDPA (which I'm not currently using).
So.. I bought a Vodafone pay-as-you go-phone yesterday. This has been given the dongle's sim card which is 3GB/month of data and no voice. The intension is to port my mobile number from t mobile back to Vodafone. The woman in the Vodafone shop said that I should ring up Vodafone customer services and get switched to a new contract. I don't know though, I quite like having unlimited data, although it has no voice at all (I can't even call customer services).
Phones seem to be selling themselves as MP3 players. As my entire collection is oggs (**) (and I'd rather be fully alert in the street) I've never used that feature. However I use the camera all the time, and sms.
I selected a Sony Ericsson K900i which has a 3 mp camera (with autofocus and stuff), a web browser, 3G, rss and email. This means I can email photos to flickr from my phone and check the travel information on the bus. It has J2ME for applications - I've already downloaded googlemaps and the googlemail reader and I'm looking for a twitter client.
I've tried Abiro Jitter but I don't get any data apart from the public timeline. It could be using the broken twitter IM service I suppose.
UTweetMe crashes almost immediately.
Any suggestions?
* anything you add to the custom dictionary is selected as first choice so that 'at' always becomes 'CV'
** That I've ripped myself. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 3rd, 2008|07:18 pm] |
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I have an interview for the job I'm doing as a temp on Tuesday! Yay! |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 2nd, 2008|11:17 pm] |
Rhythmbox crashed, I open it again and get gstreamer errors to do with pulse audio. This happens if I open totem more than once too :(
(rhythmbox:9892): GStreamer-CRITICAL **:
Trying to dispose element fakesink, but it is not in the NULL state.
You need to explicitly set elements to the NULL state before
dropping the final reference, to allow them to clean up.
Pulseaudio, made of FAIL, on my hardware (audigy) and in hardy. |
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| Update |
[Jul. 1st, 2008|11:06 pm] |
Geek + money = shiny
I bought something I've wanted for ages, a digital slr camera (Nikon D40). Not taken it out yet.
Went to the Hide and Seek festival on Saturday with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) squirmelia, and went to the Oval on Sunday.
Still working, and fruitlessly chasing boys round the internet.
Not much else to report. |
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