Dan Ros

Writeup over on my flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/danros/sets/72157618132366340/ -

Also the East Anglia Rocketry Society: http://www.flickr.com/photos/danros/sets/72157617872826227/ -

You’ll want to use this patch: http://www.insecure.ws/warehouse/vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2.tar.gz

I suppose I’d better mention Chompmail, the cute little app I made at the Super Happy Dev Club (SHDC) (Cambridge)  #10, which was a lot of fun.

Chompmail is a email to web forwarding service, powered by a hippo named Hugo.

The basic use case goes something like this: You have an email in your inbox, perhaps with attachments.

You want to share it with someone but don’t want to email it to them for whatever reason. Normally you’d have to download the mail, save it, and find somewhere to upload it. With chompmail, you can just forward it to hugo@chompmail.co.uk. Hugo will reply with a url, and you can share that. Also, there’s a cute hippo!

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So I inherited a laptop. Or rather, a tabletop since this is more of a luggable computer than anything else. The screen is 17″ and the whole lot weighs over 4kg. Still, can’t complain about a free laptop, even if one corner is smashed in somewhat.

Anyway, hopefully this can save someone some time. Forget about the native driver, it can’t *quite* connect properly with WPA(1/2). Once you have installed the firmware the wifi chip needs (apt-get install bcm43xx-fwcutter), follow these instructions:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Feisty_No-Fluff

Basically, simply disable the native driver, and use the windows driver with ndiswrapper.

Follow part 2A not  2C. Works fine and you can still use Network Manager.

I’ve just had to upgrade wordpress to fix this bug:

http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5487 -

1. Create a draft post

2. Log out

3. Visit http://yourblog.com/index.php/wp-admin/

• is_admin() spots the wp-admin in the request and returns true
• query.php uses is_admin() to decide to return future, draft or pending posts

That’s not how you’re supposed to do authentication!

‘Code is poetry’, indeed.

Just got back from a holiday seeing the in-laws in Romania. We also spent 4 days in the Carpathians, in a small town named Cheia, which is nice country for hiking.

Cheia (Key) is so named because of its status as a former  border town between the states of Transylvania and Wallachia, two of the former main three principalities which make up modern Romania.

Pictures on the gallery.

Oddly despite being very remote, Cheia must be one of the best connected villages in Romania.

This is a satellite ground station which is used for transmitting Romanian tv to the US/Canada, amongst other things including data services. It also serves as a backup for  several satellite control operations. The village is linked nationally via two 155mbit SDH/STM lines, leaving in opposite directions.

I started cooking up Project Myth after I discovered you can get a DVB-T(Digital Video Broadcasting-Terrestrial) USB stick for £30. Everybody probably knew this already, I was just too lazy to find out. I haven’t had a tv tuner card since the 20th century when they cost £100’s.

This comes with a remote and antenna.

This £30 stick is hopefully going to be the basis of my new, thrifty (cheapskate) home cinema setup.

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