The blog of Dave Ingram
Well this has been a bit of a saga so far. I’ve been working on Linux support for the CoolerMaster CoolDrive 6 (CD6 henceforth) which I currently have in my computer. It has a USB connection, and an inbuilt Prolific PL2303X USB-Serial converter. Sadly, I’ve been struggling with uncooperative C code that I’d found which […]
Well today was my first day at my 6-month work placement. I was pleasantly surprised by how quick the admin stuff was to sort out. I got all my passwords and usernames and everything (aside from a few hiccups). I’d even been receiving email since February, which I thought was quite impressive. Add to this […]
Well that’s it: exams are over. For better or for worse. Now off to do some drinking, I think…
Revision officially sucks. Well, I suppose it’s ok; I just wish I had more time in which to do it. There just isn’t enough time to revise all three courses for tomorrow today. Argh. At least I have 5hrs or so tomorrow, 8am-12:30pm. Then it’s solid exams for the next three hours, and then it […]
Well that was nowhere near as bad as I’d expected. In fact, it was almost good (and I finished 30min early)! Turns out that Derren Brown’s memory techniques actually work, if you apply them 😉 Well done to Motti for predicting Oticon coming up. I’m just waiting for others to finish so we can go […]
This is mainly for my own reference, so I can actually find it. My exams are in red.
I now have something to distract me when I should be preparing for exams (although, naturally, it won’t). Retiarius has just purchased a dedicated server from FastHosts (on which server this blog is now running) and so I’ve been spending time setting it up. So far, it has Apache, BIND, MySQL, PHP4 and PHP5 in […]
Well I got fed up with email filter rules last week, and this is the rather bizarre result: autoforward, a Perl script and configuration file that will automatically generate Exim filter files (.forward files), mainly to be used on my University account. My email processing rules have become pretty complex and messy, making them difficult […]
So, what am I working on at the moment?
Wow. It’s amazing to think that the day just gone has marked three and a half years together with my wonderful girlfriend. Obviously, nobody can say it has always been easy, but it really has been the most wonderful three and a half years of my life. It’s amazing how everything else seems to fade […]