Sean January 30th, 2007
Just a few quick notes on how I got a CentOS v4.4 Xen dom0 to boot inside a VMWare Server VM…
yum install bridge-utils SDL
rpm -ivh xen-3.0.4.1-1.i386.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.16.33-3.0.4.1.i386.rpm
vi /etc/yum.conf
Add:
exclude=xen xen-kernel xen-devel kernel
mv /lib/tls /lib/tls.disabled
mkinitrd -f -v --preload=scsi_mod --preload=sd_mod --preload=mptbase --preload=mptscsih --preload=mptfc --preload=mptspi /boot/initrd-2.6.16.33-xen_3.0.4.1.img 2.6.16.33-xen_3.0.4.1
vi /boot/grub/grub.conf
Add:
 title Xen v3.0
 root (hd0,0)
 kernel /xen-3.0.gz noreboot dom0_mem=128000
 module /vmlinuz-2.6-xen root=/dev/VolGroup00/root
 module /initrd-2.6-xen.img
Reboot!
Sean January 25th, 2007
Gordon’s just sent me the URL of quite probably the best ringtone site I’ve visited (probably because I dont recall ever visiting a ringtone site)
Are you sad enough to want to reproduce that distinctive CTU ringtone from the TV series ‘24′ on your mobile phone?
Well, I am. So I worked out the RTTTL code needed to get it on my little Nokia 8210.
But that was just the start of the story. Ever since I posted the code here back in 2003, along with the reference samples I used in order to work it out, a lot of equally sad people have sent me versions of the ringtone in different formats.
So here they are, for all your hey-look-at-me-I’m-Jack-Bauer needs
http://www.ccir.ed.ac.uk/~jad/ringtone.html
I should probably get out more…
Sean January 23rd, 2007
I’ve just upgraded to Outlook 2007 and while I mostly like the new interface, I’ve come across something that bugs me…
In previous Outlook versions, I’ve always modified the toolbar to add a button for “Next Item in Conversation Topic”. This option allows you to easily follow threads on mailing lists or private email conversations.
This option still exists in Outlook 2007, but you can no longer customise the new “Ribbon” interface - You can only modify the “Quick Access Toolbar”.
On to my annoyance… If you add a command to the QAT that doesnt have a default icon associated with it you get a green disc icon instead - An icon that as far as I can see, you cant change! (If someone knows different - Let me know!)
If you happen to want to add more buttons to the toolbar, you’d better hope they’ve all got icons associated or you’ll just have a toolbar full of green blobs!
Sean January 23rd, 2007
The view from our front door this morning:
Sean January 20th, 2007
I’ve put a selection of photos online that I took at the Kylie gig in Manchester on 12th Jan. Kylie was much better that I’d expected and embarrassingly enough I knew the words to almost all the songs!
This was my first serious play with the new camera Leela bought me for Christmas - Due to our distance from the stage and the angle we were at, the photos didn’t come out quite as well as I’d hoped. Maybe a little bit more experimentation is required before the NiN gig 
Click here for the gallery
Sean January 18th, 2007
NiN have just launched a mini-site for the Beside You In Time DVD!
http://halo22.nin.com/
There’s a new video clip on the site, with a new one appearing every week until the launch of the DVD. W00t! 
Sean January 16th, 2007
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXF-OJOSO7c]
Link
Sean January 11th, 2007
As seen on Ninhotline:
Amongst a bunch of submission form spam about chinese food and wine, we received a number of emails about Trent’s blog on the Spiral - the new NIN album, due out in April, will be called “Year Zero.”
Also, Amazon.com has created an entry for the Beside You in Time DVD, on track for a February 27, 2007.
And from Trents Blog (Req Login):
01/10/07 : new record info
nine inch nails: year zero
coming april 2007.
it could be about the end of the world.
Current Mood:
Excited
