Last couple of days have been very busy, but somehow I managed to find time to upgrade the Durham server to Slackware 9.1, with Kernel 2.6.1! The speed improvements were instantly noticable and everything feels a lot faster, especially X. It’s great to see Linux continuing to get better and better at a fairly rapid rate - less than a year ago I wouldn’t even have considered using it on my desktop full time but now I wouldn’t be without it.
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After a fairly eventless train journey yesterday I’m now back in Durham, where its “always winter and never summer” (TM), or so it sometimes seems!
Another link to add to the ‘cool but pointless’ catgory would have to be this where someone has gone to the pain to convert secions of various movies into moving Ascii video! Obviously another case of way to much free time.
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Those up fairly early this morning in Norwich (around 7:30am) would have seen the most amazing sunrise, of which I managed to get a half-decent pic:
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Less than a week left now till I return too coldest depths of the North. With the possible arrival of snow next weekend it could make for an interesting trip!
After a suggestion from a friend I’ve been investigating the possibility of building a Beowulf Linux ‘Supercomputer’ Cluster some time in the future (probably next summer). Although it would take a fair amount of planning it’s very possible given the availability of old computers and could be quite interesting to be able to investigate the concepts of parallel computing.
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Something fairly unusual happened to me in a well-known British book store yesterday - I was looking for a fairly obscure translation of a Japanese novel and upon enquiring as to its availability I was told that I could not buy/order it from them because it had been banned from import into the EU!!! It was then recommend to me that I buy it off the Internet. On further investigation it turns out that it is not officially banned per-say but the publishers have just been refused a license to distribute it in the EU/US, the grounds for which were not noted. My guess is that this is simply another case of senseless censorship by western influences who are too scared and PC to allow the widespread distribution of anything which challenges their inherently flawed way of life, or perhaps I’m just paranoid!
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