Not my best work but it's hopefully going to be part one in a cool series... we will see.

Anyway on another note I was thinking of the setup I want at home (well when I get a home... long story). I was thinking of Doctor Who related names for servers. For a file server 'TARDIS' seems appropriate (bigger on the inside). A firewall could be 'Dalek' (any bad packets - EX-TER-MI-NATE).

Anyone else got any thoughts?

So there is this Welshman who phoned the Police. Here is the transcript (from the BBC story but from the Police)

Control Room: "South Wales Police, what's your emergency?"
Caller: "It's not really. I just need to inform you that across the mountain there's a bright stationary object."
Control room: "Right."
Caller: "If you've got a couple of minutes perhaps you could find out what it is? It's been there at least half an hour and it's still there."
Caller: "It's in the air."
Control: "I will send someone up there now to check it out."
Caller: "OK."

Control then spoke to the Officer they had sent out to find out what it was...

Control: "Alpha Zulu 20, this object in the sky, did anyone have a look at it?"
Officer: "Yes, it's the moon. Over."

So I was looking up any Linux news stories for the Linux Cranks podcast tonight. I saw a title that confused me - Next Ubuntu Linux Release Could Be in Sept. Now the next Ubuntu will be 8.10 i.e. 2008 month 10 or October. So why are they releasing a month early, and why haven't I heard anything about it?

So I read the story and it said that it is Debian that is coming out - and the page they link to even mentions that. It seems someone at PC Mag doesn't understand the difference. The thing is that the story never even mentions Ubuntu. So I have no idea what is going on there except maybe someone was thinking that because Ubuntu is based on Debian that it is the next version of, like Windows XP is based off the NT side.

Anyway it amused me.

So I've given up on Twhirl and am trying out gwibber. Notes to install it (based on stuff here) are:

sudo apt-get install bzr python-simplejson
bzr checkout https://code.launchpad.net/~segphault/gwibber/main
Note that it says change into gwibber dir which did not exist for me.
cd main/gwibber
sudo python setup.py install
Then simply run it from the menu.

update
If launched from a console will give the following errors when opening the preferences:

1. (gwibber:9886): libglade-WARNING **: Error loading image: Failed to open file '/usr/share/gwibber/ui/gwibber.png': No such file or directory
2. (gwibber:9886): libglade-WARNING **: could not convert string to type `GdkPixbuf' for property `logo'
3. (gwibber:9886): libglade-WARNING **: Error loading image: Image file '/usr/share/gwibber/ui/.' contains no data

** Update 2 **

I tried the instructions on the page. It tells me:
initial content not found

Anyone got any ideas?

** /update 2 **

** Update **

Looks like a known Air issue. Need to use the SDK instead.
See Getting Twhirl and other Air Apps working on Ubuntu 64 for details.

Can't try now, got to pick up Mini Xoke. Will try later

** /update **

So I reinstalled, as I may have mentioned (if not listen to the upcoming HPR ep).

I have been trying to reinstall twhirl and have been having problems. First up, download the alpha Adobe Air version. chmod + x and run it (sudo'd). A TON of errors came up in the console about libxfce being the wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64, and then I got the following error:

You've probably noticed that I've changed the theme for something a little darker. Just playing, seems quite good at the moment so may keep it.

I had a choice of silhouettes that I could put behind the logo and figured mountains go with Nevada.

Let me know what you think in comments :)

Actually recorded two today. Still have to edit them but keep an eye out for an episode about me reinstalling Xubuntu and one about a website I like!

Listening to Drake Anubis talk about grabbing images from satellites. I want to do this, although it will have to wait for a while when I am less broke, and working and so on and so on.

It sounds _so_ cool though :)

Drupal 6.3 is here. I hope in Drupal 7 they sort out an easier way to upgrade!

On how to (try to) unhose a windows system. Direct link to MP3 here whilst the show notes and comments are here.