200th entry

wow, real interesting – check the care factor.

well, at least i’ve stuck with it – so yay me.

and it’s pretty close to the new year too – if only i could be bothered going and working out when the first entry was…

spending a lot of time at home – which is good for the lack of money expenditure, but i really feel like i should be accomplishing more – maybe i’ll have to hack some more instead of reading/writing email – there’s a lot of it – and it takes time to go through. and write.. urrghhh… more to do….

gotta write some more LA memberdb code – maybe later tonight.. who knows.

we got a new amp, and things actually sound a *lot* better. NAD gear rocks – C320BEE amp, 50watt beast that would easily beat any lower brands 80 or 90 watt amps. Only $540, it sounds like it should cost a lot more. If you’re looking at surround gear – forget it unless you’re willing to spend *at least* $3,500 on the receiver – this NAD stereo amp blew surround gear costing over twice as much out of the water – it’s chalk and chocolate – the NAD being chocolate.

I don’t think our 15year old KEF speakers are quite up to the same as modern day counterparts. They cost about $1,600 when we got them (and that’s a lot of money back then) – compared to the ~$1,200 B&W bookshelves (that’s bookshelf speakers, not some weird book storage/speaker combo) i reckon i prefered the B&W sound a bit – but these are still good.

we now have a remote for the amp too – so there’s yet another remote lying around – maybe we should get one of those combo things – could be quite useful, and means that we don’t have to find all of the others :)

mmmm… Tool sounds good. lovin it.

i now feel absolutely justified that stereo gear is worth spending money on :)

bochs and multiboot

got the example multiboot kernel from the GRUB sources to boot in bochs. and grub… yay!

it’s a slow simulation – but should be useful… should bring it over to the laptop too.

nearly got membership applications up

nearly have membership stuff up..

debian and new php… interesting – backporting packages. and for some reason the php packages don’t like using fakeroot to build them. *sigh* oh well…

now only to get past people problems…..

memberdb

actually have made a fair bit of progress – only a bit more of the admin UI to do and it’ll accept and track memberships and do all sorts of funky biz.

just hope digital is back and functioning soon.

NO UNREAD MAIL!

woah – i think i’ve read all my mail – and maybe even done some things i’m meant to.

this is weird.

really weird.

well, there’s still stuff to do…..

LUV Installfest Photos

http://www.flamingspork.com/photos/luv_installfest2003/

Enjoy.