I arrived in England a year ago today. A lot has changed since then, luckily for the better. I moved from a seedy house with an odd landlady to a lovely quiet house that I practically had to myself. It was brilliant until bailiffs started knocking on the door and notices of repossession came through the letterbox a few months later. By the time the water and gas had been turned off it was time for me to move on anyway. My tenure at the school I was teaching came unexpectedly to a close 3 weeks early and I was suddenly relieved of the worst job I have ever had.
In the weeks that
followed I scoured the Internet looking for another teaching post mainly to see
me through financially. Meanwhile, Nancy was packing up her life in Taiwan to
join me as planned in July.
The day she arrived we were burgled. Only one bag was stolen, but in it was our marriage certificate – a crucial document Nancy would need to apply for a resident card. To our dismay this meant having to apply for a new marriage certificate from the notoriously inept department of home affairs in South Africa where we were married. Miraculously with my mother’s help we managed to get an unabridged copy delivered express to us just days shy of Nancy’s visa deadline 3 months later.
It was stressful time not knowing whether Nancy would be able to stay in the UK for much longer or what we would do if she had to go back. This was compounded by the added stress of moving from one part of England to quite another and having to find a new place to live when we got there. Then there was the stress of me starting a new job and Nancy trying to get a job of her own and in between all this were niggles like applying for National Insurance numbers, a driver’s license, a bank account and so on.
Amid the frenzy Nancy
and I decided on a trip to Paris. It seemed rushed and badly timed, but we had always
wanted to go, we were both out of work, Nancy’s visa was still valid and we
really, really needed a rest. It was perfect - We spent our days strolling
about the city, lazing in parks, eating, drinking and getting bronzed in the
sun. We returned to England with renewed resolve.
Fast forward to the
end of the year. Nancy and I are far more settled and relaxed. We share a clean
and comfortable flat with a Chinese couple who simply leave us be. I am getting
on well in my new school and Nancy has a part time job that she quite likes. So things have gotten better.
Hopefully by this time next year I will be fully qualified to teach in the UK. Ideally I would like to be either the Head of Department at the school I am in at the moment or to be working in a better school. Nancy should have a ‘regular’ job by then doing something that is suitably challenging, and if things go according to plan we will finally have bought a place of our own to call home. It is going to be an interesting year.
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Screenshots
See also
- http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/DOS_BootDisk
- http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Livecd
- http://git.cgsecurity.org/cgit/testdisk/
I haven't bothered to post anything in the last five months. With Christmas just around the corner, I figure this is as good a time as any to play catch up.
Padre-Plugin-PerlTidy
- A new release of this plugin -- changes made mostly by other people.
- Rather than using a base url for the data, you can now specify a number of url templates. This makes the module actually useful. Thanks to Chris Prather for working through this with me.
- A couple of releases with various refactoring bits and bug fixes. The folks at software77.net now produce a data file specifically for this module. I will ship an updated copy with every release. Refactoring this code has been pretty satisfying, though there are some parts of the module API which I detest but I will be unable to modify them.
- Various bug fixes thanks to some testing with a large dataset from Doug Moore and sixteencolors.net
- Released version 0.18, which prefers YAML::XS over any other YAML parser. This created a number of issues with the HTML::FormFu crowd as existing parsers allowed this sort of syntax "auto_id: %n" -- whereas YAML::XS complains about an exposed percent sign. The easy fix is to wrap the string in quotes "auto_id: '%n'"
- Fixed a nasty bug due to a missing my() which randomly broke the module on some platforms.
- A tiny patch for max_height included in this release. This still has some pending issues in RT -- though I have a hard time justifying spending any time on them as I don't use this module at all.
- Apparently, this module was basically broken. Fixed thanks to a supplied patch.
- Another kind user supplied some patches/info to support mod_perl and fully qualified template names.
- Removing use of UNIVERSAL->import from these module. Not even sure why it was there to begin with.
- A couple of release of this module. Includes some bug fixes, feature additions and Solr 1.4 compatibility.
- Although, as I understand it, auto_install now works in newer versions of Module::Install, I've decided to remove it from my dists to avoid any issues.
Caroline successfully reoriented her carrier from psychologist (in France) to lactaction counselor and post-partum doula here in San Francisco (we live on Potrero Hill).
Yesterday in London, UK Google launched a massive advertising campaign for the Google Chromium Chrome floss free libre open open-source browser project !
Chromium aims to build a
safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience
the web. The Chromium site contains design documents, architecture overviews,
testing information, and more to help you learn to build and work with
the Chromium source code.
STOP PRESS and now on the front page of The Stylist and The Shortlist too !
Nokia OVI already has 70m users and is aiming for 300m by the end of next year ! Now Vodafone is trying to get a slice of the mobile social media cake by launching Vodafone 360 !
I wonder which will be first to 500m members and when ?
frappr is now platial
frappr is now platial
Apparently the real Google Ubuntu Chromium OS is based on Ubuntu and not on OpenSuse ! And the official download is only available as sourcecode which you have to build-it-yourself ! So by implication any other ISO or VM downloads that claim to be Chromium OS are possibly spoofs or fakes !
- http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/building-chromium-os
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxBuildInstructionsPrerequisites
- http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/building-chromium-os/build-instructions
- http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs
- http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/getting-dev-hardware/dev-hardware-list
Thanks to Alan Pope for alerting me to the spoof ISO i downloaded last week !
the .eu domain is now supporting ACE Internationalised Domain Name (IDN) names which means that most european characters can now appear in the domain name part of URIs and URLs !
Examples:
Note : type the second (ACE encoded) version in brackets if your keyboard doesn't have a à character !
See also:
- http://www.domainmonster.com/domains/eu-idn/
- http://faq.domainmonster.com/domains/idn/what-is-an-ace-string/
- http://news.domainmonster.com/new-eu-idn-domain-name/
- http://www.domainmonster.com/domain-registration/eu-idn/
- http://faq.domainmonster.com/domains/eu/german-%C3%9F-in-my-eu-idn/
And if you're interested in Arabic or Russian domain names see:
According to http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/534 Intel initially chose not to extend their IA-32 processor family to 64 bits, preferring to promote their own but incompatible HP PA-RISC based IA-64 "Itanium" processor family !
but then Intel adopted AMD's 64-bit extensions into their IA-32 processor family, calling them "Intel 64" (aka IA-32e and EMT64). Final generation Pentium 4 & D, Celeron D, and Xeon processors and all "Core 2" based processors now include AMD compatible 64-bit extensions.
To add to the confusion https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ProcessorArch lists a few dozen Intel processors but doesn't make it clear which type a Pentium DualCore is ! Which is what my Compaq A900 notebook says it has in it !
I have 4G of RAM that I have only been able to access 3G of so far (with 4 different OS's)
Update :
It seems that my Pentium DualCore has PAE (?) support and when I install from the Xubuntu x86 (32-bit ?) CD I CAN see all 4G ! So what benefits if any would I get from using the Xubuntu 64-bit (AMD64) CD instead ?
My SONY PIII says it is:
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 13
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.50GHz
cpuid level : 2
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe up bts est tm2
My Compaq Pentium Dual Core says it is:
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T2390 @ 1.86GHz
cpuid level : 10
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm
