monday, 26 january 2026
Annual Leave LHR —> GLA Departs 18:55 Prelims Physics 09:15 to 11:45 The Psychology of Persuasion Influence by Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D., the Psychology of Persuasion: finished reading this today, and it has been an interesting read and the power of the six building blocks of influence identified has been interesting. Reciprocation Consistency Social proof Liking Authority Scarcity

sunday, 4 january 2026
Lemon Crunch Pie The recipe and ingredients that are used in a 9 inch cake tin are covered in the recipe on the 9 Feb 14 , however I did not have a 9 inch tin and could only get a 12 cm so I had to adjust the ingredients: Ingredients: 1 Lemon 100 ml double cream 150 ml condensed milk Base: 90g Digestive Biscuits and 50g Butter Instructions Heat butter in sauce pan, add crushed biscuits. Stir until biscuits are coated with butter. Place biscuit mixture into a pie dish (this amount gives a good base for 22.5cm diameter (9 inch) cake tin), pat down evenly. Place into the oven to cook for 10 to 15 mins at 170° Place condensed milk into a bowl and beat. Grate the peal from all three lemons add to the condensed milk beat. Add the juice of lemons beat. Add the cream and beat. This mixture will thicken. When the base is cool add the lemon mixture. Place in fridge to set.

tuesday, 2 december 2025
Jobs Screwfix B&Q 50mm down pipe 500ml Oat Milk - Emergency Milk for work Advent Calendars: Pictures of the garage Smarty & Octeon label printer: k-vetexam-01 to 05 SBOHVM Exam Laptop Postcodes ILR spec 2018 App C Valid postcode format .

saturday, 15 november 2025
SC Conference

thursday, 23 october 2025
Adversarial Models Synthesizing Robust Adversarial Examples Adversarial Examples in the Physical World awk & sed Lobste.rs story on script had some good comments: get line 10: awk 'NR == 10' sed -n 10p sed -n '10{p;q;}'

tuesday, 21 october 2025
Birdbox The camera in the birdbox has a default resolution of hevc 2304x1296 20 fps which when viewing on smaller screens scales down to 1152x648. TGA: S4 Tracking Point AGM: Titans Knightswood

tuesday, 9 september 2025
Battery Replacment Finally replaced the battery in my Sony SRS-XB12, putting the new battery in was easy replacing some of the screws was harder, but with my new Wera comet My LetsEncrypt cert was expiring tomorrow so I updated it today, and there was a firmware upgrade that I was expecting to blow away, the ssl files, but this update left them in place so updating the server.crt in /etc/kvmd/user/ssl/ was straight forward. Restarting nginx to pick up the new cert: /etc/init.d/S99kvmd-nginx

thursday, 28 august 2025
GL-RM1 Comet Comet had another updated which lost the SSL certificate which had moved to /etc/kvmd/user/ssl/server.crt thus allowing it work in chrome without warnings. EDID The comet EDID settings didn't seem right so I used the Linux hardware EDID list that screen details for Q34E2G5 which had 4 blocks of EDID hex the first block worked, for my AOC Q34E2A . Then I realised that 2560x1080 resolution of the screen, but I need the resolution of the HP display panel which is 1920x1080 resolution — but no luck finding the EDID for the EliteBook 855 G8 panel…

thursday, 21 august 2025
TGA Term Starts: S4 blink(1) sudo apt install libusb-dev sudo apt install libudev-dev Need to add the above packages to get blink1-tool built. Keyboards New layout for my Corne to try and make it more similar to my Moonlander layout, as shown below, but forgot a mod key so only one layer, doh… Also need to sort out the LEDs and screens :~)

sunday, 10 august 2025
Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 Schedule 4 allows rent seekers to extract unfair value...

friday, 25 july 2025
IP addresses ping 4.2.514 Works on linux fails on OpenBSD - this is due one of the many ways taht IP addresses can be represented. I need to discover why OpenBSD does not support this address - I'm guessing it's because the fact it resolves to 4.2.2.2 is non obvious… LTE LTE with OpenBSD on a ThinkPad X280 gave some pointers for umb.

tuesday, 1 july 2025
jj Steve's Jujutsu Tutorial . seduction… The seductive allure of neuroscience Sync & Swim Sync and Swim AI The role of the University is to resist AI

wednesday, 11 june 2025
... -r sort in reverse order OpenSCAD Currently marked broken in OpenBSD ...

saturday, 31 may 2025
... Never made it to this due to DDSSC overrunning as did the Sigils ...

wednesday, 9 april 2025
Love eBikes 0141 339 8349 service and repair R5S 4 black case screws 4 silver motherboard screws copy install77.img to sd pkg_add uboot-rk356x dd u-boot to front of sd card boot with sdcard cu -d -l /dev/cuaU0 -s115200 install installed to eMMC (sd2)

monday, 24 march 2025
CA CAA prevents issuance error was happening, but dig caa schoolio.co.uk looked correct… schoolio.co.uk. 3328 IN CAA 0 issue "letsencrypt.org" But editing the DNS seemed to resolve the issue… Lists iocaine project AI Con by Emily Bender - wait for paperback… weasel out those words script Sun Tzu would not be impressed…

friday, 7 march 2025
git SCM Creating a new repo: Initials the repository: git init --bare repo.git The clone the repository where you want it: git clone ssh://path/to/repo.git git

thursday, 9 january 2025
Debian Wifi nmcli dev wifi scans the wireless network and displays access points and strength.

sunday, 15 december 2024
41 Bosch DUL63CC50B 60cm Chimney Cooker Hood

saturday, 16 november 2024
RCS Wk9 Scottish Cycling Conference Inchyra Grange Hotel: 09:30 to 16:30 Falkirk

monday, 11 november 2024
jobs 2000x960x22: £184 Shark £189 Ice Cream Scoop Sony speakers Ace Windows sort dinner tomorrow

saturday, 2 november 2024
RCS Wk7 Pensions BAE orca Installed orca, espeak-ng, and speech-dispatcher which allow screen reading. Not sure if espeak-ng was required… but want to play with it again.

monday, 21 october 2024
Colmi R02 Smart Ring from Aliexpress turned up today, I bought the ring after reading about it on Lobste.rs . Installed and played with python, and then discovered that the ring is supported by GadgetBridge, so installed that on my mobile. GadgetBridge talks to my ring and bangle.js watch. Notes Some time in December 2024 / January 2025 the Colmi ring stopped charging, but in March 2025 when I was thinking of sending the ring to e-waste I discovered that if I pushed the magnetic charger on to the ring it started charging again, so the ring is back collecting data.

tuesday, 15 october 2024
The Water Book Finished reading The Water Book by Alok Jha, an interesting exploration of the properties of H 2 O and it's importance to life on earth. SICP Started reading SICP and playing with common lisp, was almost stuck in lisp… (quit) or (exit) leaves CLISP. use the brackets Not the first time , but this time I installed CLISP and CHICKEN for scheme. chicken-csi REPL for scheme is provided by chicken-csi . book

tuesday, 8 october 2024
Glasgow Park Road {Laundrette} Jamieson's DIY and Mowers Screenshots Thorsten: Screenshots Solene: Screenshots xclip -selection clipboard -o > screenshot.png screenshot

tuesday, 1 october 2024
cohost read only 8~( OpenBSD on a NanoPi R5S In the process of getting the SD card set up I overwrote EFI partition with NanoPi u-boot code, thus heather would not boot, as I had two new NVME disks I swapped out the disk and installed OpenBSD again on my X395, ordered an external NVME caddy, to allow me to rescue the data…yes backups would have saved me £15.99 for the caddy but I'm sure it will be useful. Using the ground as well as TX and RX on the serial headers improved the reliability of the serial. Finally installed OpenBSD on NanoPi R5S LTS.

monday, 30 september 2024

friday, 13 september 2024
safeguarding notebook & pen (not declarable on GDPR) dedicated notbook date, time, and how it made you feel. esclate with union

monday, 26 august 2024
SC Club Devel 19:00 Zoom meeting

wednesday, 14 august 2024
Maths Books Abstract Algrebra Discrete Mathematics Take a break: Error Dectectiosn / Correction PreTeXt Came across PreTeXt , need to dig in to it a bit more… Sharepoint An attack surface tour

thursday, 8 august 2024
... Definitely need to play with this and OpenSCAD. 3D cad gcode ...

saturday, 3 august 2024
Stuff BMX Peak Vans Vans BMX old school

sunday, 14 july 2024
… Pi powered plane watcher and perl scripts

tuesday, 18 june 2024
... SuperSecurePassword" phase2 ="auth=MSCHAPV2" } The following shell ...

thursday, 30 may 2024
The Science of Insecurity The Science of Insecurity is a CCC talk from 2011. Packet in Packet Packets in Packets

sunday, 26 may 2024
Edinburgh Marathon Pete ran the Edinburgh Marathon today! X395 Upgraded to a new battery. Had an issues with boot stalling… resolved by booting into bsd.rd doing upgrade and using fsck to clean all partitions.

friday, 24 may 2024
Books Algorithms to live by by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths Library Level 5, Computing F20 2016-C A philosophy of softare design by John Ousterhout, Computing D20 2018-O, Library Level 5 Look at Modern Operating Systems by Tanenbaum D40 2009-T Glasgow Science Festival Glasgow Science Festival is happening between 6 and 16 June 2024.

saturday, 11 may 2024
LGW kk mX fm Sc CC931 RMAS

tuesday, 23 april 2024
Work CR2025 4 screws KVM 2 screws power bank x 2

sunday, 17 march 2024
Desktop Wallpaper Copying the approach of the OpenBSD Wallpaper script to set up backgrounds for xenodm for the login screen.

tuesday, 20 february 2024
siren cli music player. This was forgotten due to using Navidrome, but sometimes you need the cli . Bluetooth Headphones / Speakers: OpenBSD Bluetooth Audio on OpenBSD with the Creative BT-W3 describes using the BT-W3 for listen to music on OpenBSD with Bluetooth speakers / headphones - so bought a BT-W3X. And it works with: Sony SRS-XB12 Speakers Aftershokz AS650 Openfit Air The BT-W3X shows up in dmesg as: /bsd: uaudio0 at uhub1 port 1 configuration 1 interface 3 "Creative Creative BT-W3X" rev 2.00/10.00 addr 7

monday, 19 february 2024

monday, 15 january 2024
Millig Practice 14:00 Mac OS X netstat -f inet -rn This is does the equivalent of route show -inet which is what my muscle memory remebers whenI'm looking for a routing information, interestingly route output is exactly the same as the netstat on OpenBSD.

sunday, 14 january 2024
Raspberry Pi Trying to mount the SD card on Linux wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb2, missing codepage or helper program, or other error fdisk -l e2fsck /dev/sdb2

thursday, 11 january 2024
Muscle Aging Borrow: Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms by J H & B B Hubbard Princeton Companion to Mathematics: Mathematics q0050 2008-G Parents Evening 16:00 online

saturday, 30 december 2023
Libretto 70CT Created an 20 Gbyte virtual partition: sudo /usr/bin/qemu-img create -f qcow2 29.img 20G Then installed 2.9 OpenBSD /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-i386 -m 2048 -monitor stdio \ -hda 29.img -cdrom /dev/cd0a -boot d Needed increase ulimit [ hint ] and had to run locally on the machine. The default e1000 nic was not found by OpenBSD 2.9 so created a qemu startup script: #! /bin/sh -x # Start Qemu OpenBSD 2.9 # /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-i386 -m 2048 \ -device rtl8139,netdev=net0 \ -netdev user,id=net0 \ -no-fd-bootchk \ -monitor stdio \ -hda 29.img \ -cdrom /dev/cd0a After creating a hostname.rl0 with dhcp it automatically obtained the Qemu default address.

monday, 18 december 2023
eyeD3 Cleaning up tracks: eyeD3 --user-text-frame 'media_type:' *.mp3 Removing text frames like UserTextFrame: [Description: media_type] from purchased music, need to script as lots of unnecessary tags were added. eyeD3 --remove-frame PRIV *.mp3 eyeD3 --remove-all-comments *.mp3

friday, 15 december 2023
llamafile Bash One-Liners for LLM s describes using llamafile . Running the example in Justine's blog , resulted in the model described the image of three lemurs as: The image features a family of three monkeys, including two adults and one baby. They are walking together in the grass, with all three monkeys looking directly into the camera. The baby is being held close by its mother while the father monkey watches over them, creating a lovely scene of togetherness among the family members. llamafile, llava-v1.5-7b-q4-main.llamafile llamafile --version llamafile v0.4.0 main The llamafile needed to run as root user - otherwise the APE abort traped and core dumped. SocialTrack Wishaw: 19:00

saturday, 25 november 2023
... SocialTrack 18:00 gcode 3D AGM SC 1 hour to Crief Hydro RCS: Symphonia ...

sunday, 19 november 2023
last.fm Something else: http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/?method=user.getrecenttracks&user=rj&api_key=0929f1144e531702a5563c887cbbade0&limit=10&format=json

friday, 10 november 2023
WFH: mattress Charlie new house Small Rig Crab-shaped clamp with ballhead magic arm id: 3755 . It was 3757 but they have discontinued that line.

monday, 30 october 2023
Cisco Phones Console cable requirement Message 652 Message 652 : the last message.

thursday, 12 october 2023
Blood Donor 12:00 Garscube Sports

wednesday, 11 october 2023
Flu Jab Victoria Hall, 09:15 vacs.nhs.scot Wishaw Warriors: Session 5 flu

sunday, 17 september 2023
Scottish Open: nod Practice on the 16 Sep 23.

saturday, 29 july 2023
Scottish BMX: nod

friday, 14 july 2023
pider8 Scottish BMX: Titans Round 7 GEB This book was a lot bigger than I expected, it will probably take me until next year to read… RCS Concert

wednesday, 21 june 2023
Scottish BMX Championships: Knightswood

saturday, 10 june 2023
... Scottish BMX: nod Cycling Links SC Coaching . ...

sunday, 28 may 2023
Scottish BMX: Titans dna Bellshill Junior Pump Track dna Stuff MEDEA : accents Box Gear set

saturday, 27 may 2023
Scottish BMX: Titans KH-82117 20"

thursday, 25 may 2023
ScotLUG: Arch 19:00 at the Electron Club

saturday, 29 april 2023
Scottish BMX: Titans

saturday, 22 april 2023
11:00 Drumry GUVMA Rodeo Garscube Campus

sunday, 16 april 2023
Scottish BMX: nod

saturday, 15 april 2023
Scottish BMX: nod

thursday, 16 march 2023

monday, 19 december 2022
AllRGB All RGB who said interlacing reduces compressibility creating images for allrgb sci-hub

saturday, 3 december 2022
Winter School KDS: Keele

thursday, 1 december 2022
ScotLUG: Advent of Code 18:30 Electron Club CCA Bangle js Bangle smart watch. RouterOS RouterOS is the operating system of Mikrotik routers, I have just purchased MikroTik RouterBoard cAP Lite - RBcAPL-2nD to create new wireless access points to replace the ubiquiti nanostations.

saturday, 26 november 2022
Scottish Cycling AGM 12:00 Hampden Park, Letherby Drive, Glasgow, G42 9BA

friday, 25 november 2022
Scottish Blood Dumb Strike

monday, 31 october 2022
ID3 Tags Tag Removal Strip Tags PineTime Noticed new update to Red Nectarine InfiniTime so I updated my PineTime using itd which took a bit of time to download the correct file from github, and then flashed it to my PineTime: itctl fw upg --archive pinetime-mcuboot-app-dfu-1.11.0.zip The firmware then needed to be validated in the Settings of InfiniTime. I need to upload the new resources to make use of the new watch faces… Factors Factors is a quantity that when multiplied by another factor gives the enitre quantity. TIL that to get decimal places from bc you need to start it either with -l the artbitrary precision math library, or set scale=n where n is the number of decimal places: bc scale=4 1/16 .0625 InfiniTime factors

wednesday, 26 october 2022
First Principles Design Question your assumptions: find fundamental truths Rebuild you solutions from scratch: using fundamental truths Source Marten

friday, 14 october 2022
email move fc from discard: and check mail Accessibility Microsoft Accessibility

wednesday, 12 october 2022
Shell Scripting In shell scripting the checking a string is achieved using [ ${var} = "string" ] , if you are writing bash scripts you can use == for the equality test, but this is a non standard extension. os=`uname` if [ ${os} = "Linux" ]; then path=/usr/bin/ else path=/usr/local/bin/ fi Is an example of an if statement using this test . equality shell

wednesday, 14 september 2022
Apple Store Coach Education SC 19:00 see Google Calendar. Firefox Was trying process debugging in firefox to try and work out how to get zoom to work in the browser - but it caused firefox to not display menus… Resolved by deleting: user_pref("devtools.aboutdebugging.collapsibilities.processes", false); user_pref("devtools.aboutdebugging.process-debugging", false); from .mozilla/firefox/user.default/pref.js firefox debugging

monday, 12 september 2022
WebPay Chargeplace Scotland

tuesday, 6 september 2022
xenodm Couldn't work out why awesome was not starting on x41 , turns out I was using an .xinitrc file rather than a .xsession file. Hint from this misc post. The great thing about the x41 is that it has no Windows key so need to work out which key to assign for opening terminals in awesome. x41

saturday, 6 august 2022
BMX: Scottish Regional Round 6 nod BMX 2022

sunday, 10 july 2022
BMX: Scottish Regional Round 5 nod BMX 2022

wednesday, 6 july 2022
sxmo sxmo on my Pine64 Pine Phone. Screen image is located in: /usr/share/sxmo/ and contacts.tsv is in the .config/sxmo directory of the user . sxmo Pine Phone

wednesday, 15 june 2022
Mac OS X CLI Locking the screen from the CLI using: fred@macbook ~ % pmset displaysleepnow

wednesday, 8 june 2022
Scottish BMX National Championships Race Schedule Sign in 18:00 - 19:00 Practice 18:00 - 19:00 Racing 19:20 - 20:40 Corne Keyboard D key fixed, one leg was not soldered to the PCB :~) BMX 2022

monday, 6 june 2022
... local instance of Overleaf OpenSCAD Cheatsheet Emojipedia A dictionary ...

saturday, 4 june 2022
BMX: Scottish Regional Round 4 nod BMX 2022

wednesday, 11 may 2022
SC Dev Session Clydebank 19:00 to 21:00 part of RACE / BMX Cluster BMX

tuesday, 10 may 2022
Dynamic Programming Bret Victor has been doing some interesting research in to Dynamic Programming. There are some great talks and demo's but no obvious sign of the code… The tool is the third iteration of Bret's attempt to achieve this, the first attempt was described in Designing a Design tool in his Magic Ink presentation, the second was Substroke which appears to be based on a Lua engine. sculpt is javascript tool inspired by Bret Victor's work. D3.js Javascript library for manipulating documents based on data. joy.js This is an interest project by Nicky , read the faq which has interest stuff on Maths and Learning. Dynamic Programming

sunday, 8 may 2022
BMX: Scottish Regional Round 3 nod BMX 2022

sunday, 3 april 2022
BMX: Scottish Regional Round 2 Clydebank SW BMX: Round 3 Decoy, Newton Abbot, TQ12 1EJ BMX 2022

thursday, 24 march 2022
Vortex86MX DM&P Vortex86MX CPU are tiny computers - which I discovered following reading FreeBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU , so I looked on eBay and found a Vortex86MX which has a 934 Mhz processor and 512Mb RAM. Getting OpenBSD running on the board was not as straight forward as installing OpenBSD normally is.

sunday, 6 march 2022
BMX: Scottish Regional Round 1 Clydebank BMX 2022

monday, 28 february 2022
Electricity Play with R at Scoland's official statistics . R

tuesday, 22 february 2022
Lilygo LoRa32 V2.1 1.6 Lilygo TTGO LoRa32 V2.1 and schematic and github code. Synthing syncthing, HAProxy, and TCP buffer inspection : an interesting blog Recipe Converting: 116,104,105,115,32,99,111,110,118,101,114,116,115,32,97,115,99,105,105,32,116,111,32,100,101,99,105,109,97,108,32,99,104,97,114,99,111,100,101 to this converts ascii to decimal charcode LoRa charcode

friday, 21 january 2022
pwnagotchi Was connecting pizeropg and used ioreg -p IOUSB to discover which device to attach to, but the output was fred@macbook ~ % ioreg -p IOUSB|grep -i Gadget +-o RNDIS/Ethernet Gadget@14200000 <class AppleUSBDevice, id 0x1000018d5, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (1 ms), retain 13> the USB was acting as an ethernet gadget, rather than a serial device. InfiniTime: Fuzzy Kiwi Upgrading InfiniTime to Fuzzy Kiwi (1.8.0) using nRF Connect , had to delete the previous zip file for the dfu . pwnagotchi pinetime

tuesday, 18 january 2022
grep Using grep to find words of a specific length, can be done in a number of ways. grep -E '^[[:alpha:]]{4}$' file grep -E '^[A-Za-z]{4}$' file grep -E '^.{4}$' file grep -E '^....$' file grep '^....$' file grep '^.\{4\}$' file The examples above all give the same results. Using -E option makes the pattern be interpreted as an extended regular expression, thus grep behaves as egrep . It the last example the braces need to be escaped otherwise it would be a literal match on .{4} echo '.{4}' | grep '^.{4}$' .{4} The dictionary files can be found /usr/share/dict/ grep dict

friday, 14 january 2022
xwd xwd -out file.xwd captures the window xwud -in file.xwd will show screen grabs from xwd and convert file.xwd file.png will convert the file from XWD X Window Dump image data to a png . convert xwd xwud

wednesday, 12 january 2022
Compliant Mechanisms plotting and scheming using a complaint mechanism for the spring.

tuesday, 4 january 2022
Javascript Sudoku Solver written and optimized in Javascript. javascript

tuesday, 28 december 2021
Creating a simple webserver with while & nc The script: #! /bin/sh # Simple Web Server - Works on OpenBSD # based on @antonmedv webserver: # https://twitter.com/antonmedv/status/1474838597991813127 while :; do nc -Nl 1088 <<EOF HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/html <html> <head><title>Simple NC Web</title></head> <body> <h1> Current date is $(date) </h1> </body> </html> EOF done Shell Script Debugging This shell script was giving me an syntax error:`while' unmatched this was due to a missing done in the script. shellcheck is an excellent resource for checking shell scripts. CSS Ctrl + F5 to force CSS reload in Firefox. css shell

wednesday, 17 november 2021
... social platform Graduation 16:00 BMX SC RSR : Knightswood 18:00 to 20:00 ...

wednesday, 20 october 2021
BMX SC RSR : Broadwood 19:00 to 21:00 RSR

sunday, 17 october 2021
Scottish Open Nod

wednesday, 22 september 2021
Trailer Tyres BMX SC RSR : Knightswood 18:00 to 20:00 Keyboard Links Relegendable Keycaps The Evolution of Character Codes, 1874-1968 Moonlander Review RSR

tuesday, 21 september 2021
... Missing from your CS education OpenSCAD Python... ...

tuesday, 31 august 2021
Beagle V Beagle V should be launched next month. Risc-V board risc-v

wednesday, 18 august 2021
BMX SC RSR : Broadwood 19:00 to 21:00 RSR

wednesday, 28 july 2021
Dissertation Submission Final submission for MSc MSc

saturday, 24 july 2021
BMX SC Regional nod

wednesday, 14 july 2021
BMX SC RSR : Knightswood 18:00 to 20:00 RSR

saturday, 26 june 2021
BMX SC Regional Round 2: Titans

wednesday, 23 june 2021
BMX SC RSR : Broadwood 19:00 to 21:00 RSR

saturday, 5 june 2021
BMX SC Regional Round 2: nod

sunday, 23 may 2021
BMX SC Regional Round 1: Titans

friday, 9 april 2021
xfreerdp [09:48:27:861] [31207:6b956040] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.transport] - transport_ssl_cb: ACCESS DENIED [09:48:27:861] [31207:6b956040] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core] - transport_ssl_cb:freerdp_set_last_error_ex ERRCONNECT_AUTHENTICATION_FAILED [0x00020009] [09:48:27:861] [31207:6b956040] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.transport] - BIO_read returned an error: error:1404C419:SSL routines:ST_OK:tlsv1 alert access denied Had the above errors when running xfreerdp from a shell script, but no errors from the CLI , the problem was that from a script the username and password need to be quoted. rdp

tuesday, 6 april 2021
ffmpeg ffprobe video.mp4 Provides information about a video. ffmpeg -framerate 0.2 -i image.jpg \ -vf scale=1280:1024,setsar=1:1 -vf fps=10 \ -crf 15 -pix_fmt yuv420p output.mp4 Make a video from an image. ffmpeg -f lavfi -i anullsrc -framerate 0.2 -i image.jpg \ -vf scale=1280:1024,setsar=1:1 -vf fps=10 \ -crf 15 -pix_fmt yuv420p -shortest output.mp4 Make a video from an image, with a silent soundtrack. ffmpeg

tuesday, 16 march 2021
OpenBSD video I've been running 6.9-current recently - and what to check my webcam wolf:fred ~: video -vf /dev/video0 video device /dev/video0: encodings: yuy2 frame sizes (width x height, in pixels) and rates (in frames per second): 160x120: 30, 25, 20, 15 176x144: 30, 25, 20, 15 320x240: 30, 25, 20, 15 352x288: 30, 25, 20, 15 640x480: 30, 25, 20, 15 1280x720: 9 controls: brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, gain, gamma, sharpness, white_balance_temperature, backlight_compensation Xv adaptor 0, GLAMOR Textured Video: encodings: yv12 max size: 3286x1080 using yuy2 encoding using frame size 640x480 (614400 bytes) using default frame rate which resulted in a green screen: I was about to ask misc@openbsd.org , and as I was going through my settings I looked at my /etc/sysctl.conf and saw kern.audio.record=1 , which reminded me that I needed to: sysctl kern.video.record=1 Security by default :~) sysctl video OpenBSD

friday, 12 march 2021
iED Need to join the institution of engineering designers . Masters Scheme B41J PDF B41J5 Biological placebo effects keyboard design on pronation keyzen: typing tutor monkeytype: typing test, github monkeytype: typing test iED typing

tuesday, 9 february 2021
Dentist Probability Probability - the science of uncertainty and data

tuesday, 19 january 2021
Arguments against Matlab I hate Matlab from Olivia Guest , has good arguments on why closed source is not good for science. These arguments equally apply to Labview. R Learning Statistics with R . Ordered Insturments of Amplification matlab R

thursday, 14 january 2021
Less but better Design philisophy from Dieter Rams - design for the environment and people. Design design to manufacture journey Product Design Scotland How to grow as a designer Open Source Design The Lancaster Care Charter : design with care Patent Inspiration Calculus Made Easy : web version of the book

friday, 25 september 2020
DM934: Design Methods 14:00 - 17:00 DM934 MSc

monday, 21 september 2020
EE474: Robotics 14:00-15:00 EE474 MSc

sunday, 6 september 2020
Scottish Open: Broadwood

wednesday, 15 july 2020
Various Links nRF24LU1 firmware PiTFT RePhone using ls in scripts web based coding ~ built with links shell ls parsing

sunday, 12 july 2020
Scottish Regional: Broadwood

saturday, 4 july 2020

saturday, 6 june 2020
... gpioiic0 at gpio0: SDA[20] pull-up, SCL[19] iic2 at gpioiic0 So the maxrtc ...

sunday, 17 may 2020
JavaScript Robotics Johnny-Five is a JavaScript Robotics & IoT platform. newd and newclt newd: new deamon newctl: new control js

friday, 8 may 2020
TGA School Holiday

tuesday, 5 may 2020
Code The Nature of Code : capturing upredicable evolutionary and emergent properties in software. Veritas Professor James Mickens Screen Cast OpenBSD Screen Casting with OpenBSD and Xephyr.

saturday, 2 may 2020
Bot Pedagogy Moray House School of Education, 10:00 to 12:30

sunday, 12 april 2020
Scottish Regional: Musselburgh

sunday, 22 march 2020
Scottish Regional BMX: Clydebank

thursday, 12 march 2020
ScotlandIS: Cyber Event 0930 to 14:30 thestudio...67 Hope Street, Glasgow, G2 6AE DM933: Engineering Risk Management 14:00 GH 738 OAS Scotland Mott-MacDonald, St Vincent St, Glasgow

saturday, 29 february 2020
Unplugged: Computing through games Moray House School of Education, 10:00 to 12:30 Developed 48s with Alice, and learnt about the Philippines "Manananggal"

friday, 28 february 2020
CLI on Mac OS X When using find on mac OS X you often get lots of Operation not permitted messages. The easiest way to avoid this is redirect stderr to /dev/null : find . -name "file*name" 2>/dev/null however, this will hide all errors which might not be what you want, a better approach might be: find / -type d -name msc 2>&1 |grep -vi "permi[st]" os x mac find

wednesday, 26 february 2020
Biscuit Box - PG Cert 13:00 Leonardo Suite JW608

tuesday, 25 february 2020
DM933 - Risk Project 13:00 AC collect after school - collect Peter at 17:00 - at track for: Titans 18:00 to 19:00 Novices 19:00 to 20:00 Experts

thursday, 13 february 2020
Van Service 07:40 at Van Centre Bailleston - catch train from Easterhouse to Charing Cross OA Scotland LinkedIn Workshop for Military Personnel. APC 0930:13:00 Social Track Meeting Made4U in ML2 18:30

monday, 10 february 2020
Atreus Discovered that the 'p' key was dead so replaced it and had my first go at typing with zty.pe T1 / Clarendon Rangers 15:30 Cycling Meeting

thursday, 30 january 2020
ScotLUG

tuesday, 21 january 2020
DM923 11:00 LT/301a Sustainable Strathclyde 12:00 Cycle Safe: Strathclyde Business School, Cathedral Street. Numbers G: 84964.51 E: 85320.3 F: 2995.56 fits

thursday, 9 january 2020
Ubiquit POE-48-24W I purchased the Ubiquit POE-48-24W last year to power my third HP 1810-8G (J9802A) switch but lan did not work over the POE - discovered that the model I bought only support 100Mb networking I needed the POE-48-24W- G model. Setting the network to 100Mbps Full Duplex allowed me to use the POE and lan across the same port. So now need to populate it with the device that can do 100Mbps or less. poe

friday, 20 december 2019
DM942 Manufacturing Automation Exam 10:00 to 12:00 UC317a & UC317b School Finishes 12:00 Lomond Closes. exams

tuesday, 17 december 2019
Individual Project Meeting 11:30 JW 7th Floor GDB to LLDB GDB to LLDB command map is a table of GDB commands and how they map to LLDB. TekNote TekNote is a Lua script for taking notes in LaTeX. lua GDB to LLDB MSc

monday, 4 november 2019
Maths Skills LT308 10:30 to 15:30 Maths Skill Centre website. Labview Labview Evaluation Bosch Oven Model Number HBG674BS1B/30 labview oven

friday, 1 november 2019
... Tax Returns 09:30 Helensburgh SC West Awards Night Maryhill Burgh ...

monday, 9 september 2019
Networking my old standby : for p in $(seq 2 254); do echo -ne 192.168.1.$p"\t"; curl --max-time 2 -si 192.168.1.$p | grep -i server; echo ; done | grep -i server But on OpenBSD you need to use jot so the script: for p in $(jot 254 2); do echo -ne 192.168.5.$p "\t"; curl --max-time 2 -si 192.168.5.$p | grep -i server; echo; done | grep -i server Interesting it didn't discover my switch that is set up for https. networking curl jot

sunday, 8 september 2019
BMX Scottish Open SRBMX

sunday, 1 september 2019
Power Bends Light A great blog post on power dynamics. Scientific FORTH A Creative Commons version of Scientific FORTH: a modern language for scientific computing, by Julian V. Noble. CS9: Problem-Solving for the CS Technical Interview CS9 is a course for preparing for Technical Interviews from Stanford. Eternal Mainframe forth

thursday, 29 august 2019
Sixth Year Parents Info Evening 18:00 for 18:30 in the Watson Auditorium ScotLUG Planning evening: I need to plan a talk... ChargeYourCar https://map.chargeplacescotland.org/status?bayNo=51538 returns a JSON file: {"connectorId":0, "socketType":null, "status":"Available", "powerOutputKW":null, "statusTs":"2019-08-29 19:42", "responseStatus":"OK", "responseErr":null} it also takes &connectorId but I have no idea what its parameters are… cURL Exercises slug api curl

saturday, 24 august 2019
ANSI Escape Sequences While following the examples in everything you ever wanted to know about terminals I came across this Stackoverflow answer on ANSI escape sequences while checking for the code for italic. BMX Brits: Derby esc ansi

wednesday, 14 august 2019
... check. And post upgrade: DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION='OpenWrt 18.06.4 r7808- ...

monday, 5 august 2019
Scientific Calculator Came across insect.sh : high precision scientific calculator .

tuesday, 30 july 2019
Orhopaedics: Shoulder 10:55 G3 8SJ MSc Mechatronics & Automation Richard Adams, Postgraduate Programmes Director. 15:00 7th Floor, James Weir Building, DMEM, G1 1XJ GLA cc at 18:40

sunday, 28 july 2019
MSc Mechatronics & Automation During the Easter holidays I came across the MSc Mechatronics & Automation course at University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and the course sounded really exciting. Mechatronics is a multidisciplinary branch of engineering that focuses on the engineering of both eletrical and mechanical systems, and also combines robotics, electronics, computing, telecommunications, systems, control and product engineering. This course covers: Manufacturing Automation Mechatronic Systems Design Techniques Product Modelling & Visualisation Engineering Risk Management Project Management Group Project Individual Project MSc

friday, 26 july 2019

monday, 1 july 2019
Blood Donor @givebloodscot with Charlotte #MissingTypes pic.twitter.com/KzX9jRHDbq — Fred Crowson (@bmx_coach) July 1, 2019

tuesday, 18 june 2019
Computer Science Reading List King's College Computer Science Reading List Rich Mathematics King's College also have reading lists for Physics. Netball Presentation Evening

tuesday, 11 june 2019
Open Ports port:fred ~> telnet 10.0.5.104 9080 Trying 10.0.5.104... Connected to 10.0.5.104. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD / HTTP/1.1 Host: port.crowsons.com User-Agent: telnet HTTP/1.1 200 OK Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Cache: no-cache Content-Type: application/json Connection: close Content-Length: 9 Date: Tue Jun 11 21:43:55 2019 status=okConnection closed by foreign host. Junior School Concert 18:30 to 20:00 wtf android telnet

saturday, 8 june 2019
BMX Cumbernauld Scottish National Championships SRBMX

wednesday, 5 june 2019
HTML Came across the ch measurement - described in < length > CSS data type. Also decided to implement the < main > element in my HTML . BMX Cumbernauld 19:00 to 21:00 Broadwood opening times . html

wednesday, 29 may 2019
Trombone Exam 11:17 Music Studio Senior School: arrive 20 mins early Clarendon Rangers BMX Pedals Lines on the left pedal axle

wednesday, 15 may 2019
Ultrasound Complete rupture of Rotator Cuff… Voynich Manuscript Voynich Manuscript is a cipher text from the 15 Century.

friday, 26 april 2019
Upgrading to OpenBSD 6.5 using the package sysclean to clean up systems for size constrained upgrades. 6.5 openbsd

sunday, 17 march 2019

friday, 8 february 2019
xenodm The configuration files are found in the /etc/X11/xenodm directory. To set the background of login screen you need to put commands in the XSetup_0 file. Set the background to purple on s3 xenodm

tuesday, 29 january 2019

friday, 21 december 2018
... web based consent LTAD BMX for SC ...

friday, 14 december 2018
... Links Go-Ride Downloads SC Coaching Calendar 2019 ...

wednesday, 5 december 2018
Creative Coaching Ignition - the spark of an idea Context - how to use the spark in the context of your sport Incubation - sleep on the idea Share - discuss with other coaches Adopt - using the idea in coaching Reflect - feedback on the coaching point creativity coaching

monday, 3 december 2018
SC Club Forum RPi Transaction Number: 313904763

saturday, 1 december 2018
SC AGM: 09:30

thursday, 29 november 2018
SL Schools Abingdon Primary Douglas

saturday, 3 november 2018
Alice Tennis SC Racing for Childern Emirates: 13:00 - 16:00

saturday, 29 september 2018
National MTB Coach Development 09:30 to 20:00 10:00 Welcome 10:15 MTB Performance Pathway 11:00 The Journey to Elite 11:45 Inside XC racing 12:30 Lunch 13:00 Developing the environment for "e;success"e; 13:45 Pre-ride coach briefing 15:55 Change 14:15 Practical coach development 16:45 Change 17:30 Dinner 18:00 The Science of MTB XC Performance Dounans Centre, FK8 3UT mtb coaching cpd

thursday, 27 september 2018
Scotsoft 2018 12:30 - 18:00 Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Morrison Street, Edinburgh. 18:30 Champagne Reception 19:00 - 23:30 YSE Awards Dinner Haymarket Station. BCS

saturday, 8 september 2018
Introduction to Computer Science Lookup Syntax, Semantics, Static Semantics confused

wednesday, 5 september 2018
OA Scotland 14:00 PJ's Philosophy Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy : an interesting resource. philosophy

tuesday, 4 september 2018
MITx: 6.00.1x Started Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python on edX Consensus Humming tweet : about this process. cpd python consensus

sunday, 19 august 2018
BMX: Scottish Regional Musselburgh

saturday, 18 august 2018
BMX: Scottish Regional Clydebank

friday, 10 august 2018
Future of SC Scotstoun Sports Campus, 19:00 to 21:00

friday, 29 june 2018
... :00 ML2 Action Sports Group SC590533 club365 ...

sunday, 24 june 2018
Wishaw MTB MTB Coaching Sessions 10:00 - 12:00 Climbing & Descending Effective Braking mtb

friday, 22 june 2018
Youth Urban Games Festival Scotstoun Leisure Centre.

wednesday, 20 june 2018
Graduation 11:00 Helensburgh Parish Church. Lomond School Fundamentals 20th Jun 2018, 18:00-21:00 Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome 1000 London Road Glasgow G40 3HG cpd

wednesday, 23 may 2018
Dynamic Bezier Curves An excellent article on creating dynamic bezier curves in Javascript and SVG . SVG js

thursday, 29 march 2018
ScotLUG slug

monday, 26 march 2018
De'il 10:30 meeting scoutstoun Neil BATS BATS : need to have a play with this system. bats

saturday, 24 march 2018
Returning to Teaching Course Face to Face day - end of course. Moray House School of Education cpd

wednesday, 21 march 2018
Monitoring Linux Nagios or its opensource equivalent Icinga allow monitoring of infrastructure. Tools lsof : list open files linux version of fstat pmap ps Ansible IT automation. Jenkins Software for CI / CD Bash Scripting Bats: Bash Automated Testing System fstat lsof bash

wednesday, 7 march 2018
Band Supplies 13-15 Old Dumbarton Road, Glasgow, G3 8QY Trumpet and Trombone supplies :~) Learning Creative Learning MIT : Learning Creative Learning . Books of Interest The D programming language, Andrei Alexandrescu ISBN-13: 978-0321635365 ISBN: 0321635361 The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance, K Ericsson ISBN-13: 978-0521600811 GDPR GDPR for Developers trumpet lcl gdpr

sunday, 21 january 2018
LfS LfS : learning for sustainability. Conversations about learning for sustainability Taking Learning Outdoors(PDF) Closing the Attainment GAP in Scottish Education rtt lsf attainment

saturday, 20 january 2018
Returning to Teaching Course Moray House School of Education Charteris Land Room 5.02 St Johns Street Edinburgh EH8 8AQ rtt cpd

wednesday, 10 january 2018
RoT Some useful links: Growing without schools issue 40 What makes research useful? A side note: Raspberry Pi Laptops teaching

friday, 8 december 2017
Scratch 3.0 scratch three is coming. scratch

tuesday, 28 november 2017
SSL Certificate Expiry SSL certificate will expire at 17:00 today. Updated acme-client using the process mentioned in this entry. Computer Science Teacher Book Ordered CST letsencrypt acme ssl

friday, 24 november 2017
MSc / PhD Came across this advice for a MSc PhD application advice on twitter What technical stuff have you done? What technical stuff do you want to do? Talk about recent research. Know the related work. and link to a Prof at the Uni MSc

tuesday, 14 november 2017
WPScan Was getting [ERROR]incompatible library version errors with ruby24 and ffi-1 errors with ruby24 and ffi-1.9.18. Resolution was removing the vendor directory in the wpscan directory and running bundle24 install again. error WordPress WPScan

sunday, 29 october 2017
... Weekend with JH. coaching bmx SC ...

saturday, 28 october 2017
... Weekend with JH. coaching bmx SC ...

sunday, 1 october 2017
Scottish Open BMX

saturday, 30 september 2017
Hariot-Watt Open Day. Scottish Open BMX Practice Day

sunday, 24 september 2017
... . I also liked the fact that RISC was the future :~) hackers ...

sunday, 10 september 2017

saturday, 5 august 2017
Scottish Regional BMX Race Titans: excellent end to the Scottish Regional BMX season. BMX

saturday, 17 june 2017
Scottish Regional BMX Race Titans

tuesday, 13 june 2017

tuesday, 16 may 2017
Moodle Double Blind Coursework module: open-mod coursework Teach Yourself CS Teach Yourself CS . This lead to the SICP book from MIT Press and available online, and the CS lecturers from UC Berkeley Computer Science 61A - Lecture 1: functional programming 1 on YouTube. So installed scheme from packages and had a quick play. moodle cs scheme

sunday, 7 may 2017
Scottish Regional BMX Race

saturday, 6 may 2017
Scottish Regional BMX Race

saturday, 15 april 2017
Scottish Regional BMX Race Titans bmx

sunday, 12 march 2017
Scottish Regional BMX Race

saturday, 11 march 2017
Scottish Regional BMX Race Round 1 at the Titans :~)

friday, 10 march 2017
http://www.scottishcyclingrunningoutdoorpursuitsshow.co.uk/ Surf & Turf Gazebo's

friday, 3 february 2017
National 4/5 Music Web Archive of Education Scotland Music Resources

thursday, 2 february 2017
Soekris Net4501 Garbage on console until I remember that the baud was 19200. Upagrade comBios to 1.33 using cu ~X and the comBios download command, oh and upgraded the Net4501 to OpenBSD 6.0. But forgot to create boot.conf: stty com0 19200 set tty com0 luckily it works from the boot prompt. Black History Month 7 Pioneers in ComputerScience Ursula K. Le Guin Rightly calling a "alternative fact" a lie... http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/02/ursula_leguin_on_fiction_vs_al.html cu cs

friday, 18 november 2016
Glasgow Jazz School: Concert 10:00 to 21:30 New Auditorium GRCH

wednesday, 16 november 2016
Glasgow Jazz School Strathclyde Suite GRCH, 18:30 to 21:00 Play with Skulpt Javascript implementation of the python interpreter. Thinking like a Computer Scientist python js cs

sunday, 13 november 2016
Nod Winter Race Glasgow Jazz School Strathclyde Suite GRCH, 14:00 to 17:00

wednesday, 9 november 2016
Glasgow Jazz School Strathclyde Suite GRCH, 18:30 to 21:00

wednesday, 2 november 2016
Glasgow Jazz School Strathclyde Suite GRCH, 18:30 to 21:00

thursday, 27 october 2016
Scot LUG Surviving the "Hug of Death" - Running a Web Server in a modern environment. seige : http load tester. IP Address Great snippet from Florian: ifconfig egress | sed -ne 's/^[[:space:]]inet \([0-9\.]*\) .*/\1/p' slug

tuesday, 25 october 2016
Keyboard Bell For silence: xset -b in X and wsconsctl keyboard.bell.volume=0 bell

friday, 21 october 2016
The K-12 Computer Science Framework Google CS Education cs

tuesday, 11 october 2016
Python Glasgow 18:00 Skyscanner, 155 St Vincent Street, G2 5NW Inside The Python Virtual Machine An excellent talk by Obi Ike-Nwosu on the Inside of the Python Virtual Machine python

sunday, 9 october 2016
Primary Education Computational Thinking in Primary Schools and Primary Computing from Computing at School. ct primary

sunday, 2 october 2016
Scottish BMX Scottish Open / Championships bmx

saturday, 1 october 2016
BMX Coaching Session Newton Stewart: new BMX track coaching session. Youth Cycling BMX Track Day Scottish Youth Cycling Committee Track Day Planned track day at Cumbernauld. coaching youth bmx

friday, 9 september 2016
what a hacker looks like Javascript hackers… js

sunday, 14 august 2016
Scottish BMX Series Centurions bmx

saturday, 13 august 2016
Scottish BMX Series Western Titans bmx

friday, 12 august 2016

tuesday, 21 june 2016
Blairdardie School BMX Sessions Session 3 of 3 bmx

tuesday, 14 june 2016
Blairdardie School BMX Sessions Session 2 of 3 2 boys, 1 girl - cornering. Race BMX Changed rear cog to 17T from the default 16T - as with 16/42 was too highly geared for me. bmx

monday, 13 june 2016
xpdf urlCommand Created a .xpdfrc file and put the following line in: urlCommand "firefox -new-tab '%s'" then changed my mind and did: urlCommand "chrome '%s'" trolls Set up filters on Thunderbird to remove a troll from the OpenBSD mailing list. :0: * ^From.*obnoxious@troll.com * ^(To|Cc).*misc@openbsd.org /dev/null Feedback Effects on Performance Feedback might not have the intended effect … feedback trolls pdf

sunday, 12 june 2016
Scottish BMX Series Western Titans: Racing 20" and 24" bmx

saturday, 11 june 2016
Scottish BMX Series Western Titans: Raced 20", cruiser was raced by Morven bmx

tuesday, 7 june 2016
Blairdardie School BMX Sessions 15:00 Session 1 of 3 5 riders - 2 girls and 3 boys. pick up a at 17:00 Junior School Concert 18:10 at Helensburgh Parish Church bmx

thursday, 26 may 2016
Blairdardie School BMX Sessions 6 half hours sessions groups of 10 children from primary to junior. bmx

tuesday, 3 may 2016
ssh escape sequences From Properly close a frozen SSH session Escape sequences are good to know: Supported escape sequences: ~. - terminate connection (and any multiplexed sessions) ~B - send a BREAK to the remote system ~C - open a command line ~R - request rekey ~V/v - decrease/increase verbosity (LogLevel) ~^Z - suspend ssh ~# - list forwarded connections ~& - background ssh (when waiting for connections to terminate) ~? - this message ~~ - send the escape character by typing it twice (Note that escapes are only recognized immediately after newline.) ssh

sunday, 1 may 2016
Scottish BMX Series Cumbernauld bmx

tuesday, 19 april 2016
Blairdardie Visit at 16:30 to discuss 26 May

saturday, 16 april 2016
Scottish BMX Series Musselborough Monarchs bmx

saturday, 9 april 2016
BMX Level 2 Coach Cumbernauld Level 2 Coaching Course Course details Cancelled due to lack of numbers :~( tosh A text based replacement for scratch - useful for teaching scratch as a texted based coding language. bmx tosh scratch

wednesday, 30 march 2016
Reading: Alfresco Back late... work

tuesday, 29 march 2016
OpenBSD 5.9 Released Early release :~) Reading: Alfresco Left Pad Following the pain that was left pad... https://api.left-pad.io/?str=hapless&ch=*&len=9 : {"str":"**hapless"} openbsd left pad

tuesday, 22 march 2016
Ubuntu Serial Console Building a wireless access point for Health & Wellbeing, needed to update my alix , which required console access. My work Surface Pro running Ubuntu 15.10 wily I connected my usb serial cable which showed up as: Mar 22 09:17:00 surface-pro-3 kernel: [ 2297.789856] usb 1-1: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0 This confused me as I was expecting ttyS0 , installed screen to talk on serial and connected with sudo screen /dev/ttyUSB0 38400 [screen terminated] These messages occur when you don't have permission to access ttyUSB0 . pebble Uploading the app from CloudPebble was as simple as getting the pbw file from the browser on my phone then opening the file, which loaded it to my watch :~) console screen ubuntu fwf pebble

sunday, 20 march 2016
Scottish BMX Series Cumbernauld bmx

saturday, 19 march 2016
Scottish BMX Series Cumbernauld bmx

wednesday, 16 march 2016
Scottish Cycling CPD Effective Feedback & Questioning for Coaches NGB Room 1, 19:00 to 20:30 Emirates Arena An excellent evening's CPD , including the 4P's: Purpose Positives Points to consider Plan for the future coaching cpd bmx

wednesday, 24 february 2016
Scottish Cycling CPD Coaching Philosophy coaching cpd bmx

monday, 22 february 2016
Ubuntu Prompt appeared stuck at: [ OK ] Starting LSB: AppArmor initialzation This was resolved with a Ctrl-C which allowed the boot to continue. Once booted a sudo dpkg --configure -a and sudo apt-get update resolved the upgrade. dcrowson@alfresco-sf3:~$ uname -a; lsb_release -a Linux alfresco-sf3 4.4.0-6-generic #21-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 16 20:32:27 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu Xenial Xerus (development branch) Release: 16.04 Codename: xenial When installing software as part of the installation, services are added to start those applications on boot. To disable this use update-rc.d usb ethernet adpaters Had two network adapters as shown, they both had the same mac address 00:e0:4c:53:44:58 so of course networking was borked… upgrade ubuntu linux ethernet

sunday, 14 february 2016
Qemu My initial qemu install of Windows XP was on a virtual 5Gb disk, but this proved too small to when actually needed. Growing the disk size involved qemu-img resize xp.img +10G then the fun started. To add disk (extend the partition) in Windows XP you need to set the disk as dynamic, but if the dynamic disk is your root partition - it cannot be extended, and once you have set it to dynamic it cannot be reverted. Luckily I had a copy of the qemu XP image, resized that and then booted Gparted in the VM to extend a Window XP disk that was too small, to 15Gb. linux rescues windows… windows qemu vm

thursday, 28 january 2016
ScotLUG : Talk *BSD is Dead! or future archeology... Presentaion Uploaded to github. talk lug slug

monday, 28 december 2015
bespoke Using node , yeoman , bower , gulp to build an interactive Javascript presentation for my talk at ScotLUG talk . slides bespoke js

thursday, 17 december 2015
tnef The children's school keep sending pdf stuck in winmail.dat files, tnef decodes Mircosoft's Transport Neutral Encapsulation format into something sensible. winmail tnef

wednesday, 16 december 2015
spammers Found a base64 encoded unsubscribe link in a spam message header, which gave three fields c, m, t. The m field appears to be a md5 checksum - but haven't worked out the string to create the checksum… spam

friday, 27 november 2015
Glasgow Jazz School Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Rehearsal: 10:00 to 12:00 Schools Concert: 13:00 to 14:30 Evening Concert: 19:30 to 21:30 music

saturday, 21 november 2015
Glasgow Jazz School Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 14:00 to 17:00 music

wednesday, 18 november 2015
Glasgow Jazz School Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 19:00 to 21:00 music

monday, 16 november 2015
Screen Recording How to get good screen recordingquality? article had a good answer: ffmpeg -f x11grab -s 1600x900 -r 30 -i :0.0 -qscale 0 -vcodec huffyuv capture.avi ffmpeg x11 screen

saturday, 14 november 2015
CodeRetreat Facilitator tickets here. Using Game of Life . RookieOven - 1046-1048 Govan Road - G51 4XS Glasgow Some resources: Python Tutorial Javascript Game of Life Original Conway's Game article Polyomino

sunday, 1 november 2015
Drum: Grade Debut 09:45 Glasgow Music Studios Glasgow Jazz School Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 14:00 to 17:00 pcc Following the advice of Daniel I built and ran Portable C Compiler 1.2.0.DEVEL 20151021 for x86_64-unknown-openbsd5.8 Needed to add the following to configure to build on amd64: --- configure Tue Dec 2 19:12:30 2014 +++ /home/fred/tmp/configure Sun Nov 1 21:02:40 2015 @@ -2046,6 +2046,7 @@ case "$target_os" in targos=openbsd case "$target_cpu" in i?86) targmach=i386 ;; + x86_64) targmach=amd64 ;; vax) targmach=vax ;; powerpc) targmach=powerpc endian=big ;; sparc64) targmach=sparc64 endian=big ;; So now compiling code with pcc. pcc ports music drums

wednesday, 28 october 2015
OSCON

monday, 26 october 2015
OSCON In Amsterdam.

sunday, 25 october 2015
Pan Screen 7 [12:45] 893972899 BMX Coaching 13:30 to 14:30 Beginners Session 14:45 to 15:45 Advanced Session pcc Update to ppc to 1.1.0 but then ld doesn't link correctly... Order number: CRC2186436674 bmx

saturday, 24 october 2015
Regional BMX Session Cumbernauld - PC 10:00 to 13:00 Flat Pedals riders 12-16 - St Maurice's School Car Park BMX Coaches Forum coaching bmx

monday, 12 october 2015
bird and moon Science and nature comic. comic

saturday, 10 october 2015

wednesday, 7 october 2015
OpenBSD 5.8 Arrived #OpenBSD 5.8 has arrived :~) pic.twitter.com/vb7wPGhBPF — Fred Crowson (@fcbsd) October 7, 2015 Sniff A language developed to allow Scratch programmers to move to a more conventional language, that also controls hardware: arduino, Pi and Lego EV3. OpenBSD sniff

sunday, 4 october 2015
Scottish Open bmx

saturday, 3 october 2015
Scottish Open bmx

monday, 21 september 2015
Ushare Scottish Qualifications Authority ( SQA ) have a resources site - with moderation, having looked at the Cyber Security resources I'm not convinced on the value - it would be helpful if I could track down the what part of the qualifications they are addressing. base64 Came across a blog by @Agarri_fr about compromising an unreachable Solr server, and had a picture of the output of the system /etc/passwd in base64 - it was fairly straight forward to decode - but the use of a font that doesn't show much difference between '1' and 'l' and 'O' and '0' made it harder to work out. Cyanogenmod Still not successfully installed Cyanogenmod - none of the images resulted in TWRP managing to put an image on the old phone. Link Grammar Submitted my port with link grammar with added python bindings. base64 mobile ports

thursday, 17 september 2015
0x08: SEC-T 2015 Just watched Breaking Bricks and Plumbing Pipes: Cisco ASA a Super Mario Adventure on a live stream at YouTube : an excellent exposition of the risks of adding more software to your firewall. Recess Politicians works so hard that after starting work on the 7 Sept 2015 - they are now on month's break until the 12 October - because going to a boring conference for 4 days is such hard work… recess dates … recess firewall

tuesday, 15 september 2015
... run vncviewer localhost:0 . PCSC bits pcsc ...

friday, 11 september 2015
Power Meter So Scottish power replaced my power meter with another power meter - not a smart meter… Network Shinanigans My firewall box was missing a route to the wireless network - thus the wireless network couldn't find the interwebs , the route has now been added to the hostname.if. The OpenWRT router on the garage also needed the bridge network needing to be brought up. Floating Point Numbers Definition needed when teaching programming… network

tuesday, 25 august 2015
New Phone Case ArmourDillo Protective Case turned up: Web Scale Modular Scale : A scale rule for website font sizes. This pdf is a zip… cat file.pdf anotherfile.zip > buz.pdf zip -A buz.pdf from PoC||GTFO 01:05 courtesy of Julia Wolf's napkins… Next step is PoC||GTFO 03:03 This PDF is a JPEG; or, This Proof of Concept is a Picture of Cats armourdillo motog poc font zip pdf

monday, 24 august 2015
Linux CAN Linux-CAN has can-utils : SocketCAN user space applications. PoC||GTFO Came across the International Journal of Proof-of-Concept or GTFO , which has some interesting articles. Impressed by the use of embeding all the files as a zip within the PDF file: binary polyglots , which he descibes in Funky File Formats . can poc

sunday, 23 august 2015
Scottish BMX Club Championships Western Titans bmx

saturday, 15 august 2015
Scottish Regional BMX Cumbernauld doas Ted posted a work around for doas ticketing , create a _doas user and then: doas -u _doas this then runs a ksh shell and logs all commands. bmx doas

friday, 14 august 2015
tree nixCraft twitted : ls -R|grep :$| sed -e 's/:$//' -e 's/[^-][^\/]*\//--/g' -e's/^/ /' -e's/-/|/' So I made it into a shell script, the output of which is: port:fred ~/tmp/thttpd-2.25b> ../../tree.sh |-cgi-bin |-cgi-src |-contrib |---redhat-rpm |-extras |-scripts ksh

tuesday, 11 august 2015
Glasgow Python SkyScanner, 155 St Vincent Street, G2 5NW from 18:30 python

monday, 10 august 2015
CS for All CS for All : book for the introduction to computer science course. cs book cpd

tuesday, 4 august 2015
Vision Screen 10:50 Room 7 Vale Centre, G83 0UE

saturday, 1 august 2015
Scottish Regional BMX Round 8 Western Titans The C Book Second Edition, by Mike Banahan, Declan Brady and Mark Doran arrived today. aliases alias ducks='du -cks | sort -rn | head -11' alias nof='ls -l . | egrep '^-'' From show us your /etc/profile : but it is worth noting that only the minimum should be in /etc/profile - the rest can be set in .profile bmx book alias

friday, 31 july 2015

monday, 6 july 2015
From NAND to Tetris The hardware simulator was starting with a blank screen, this thread gave a clue by giving the following commands: Alt+space,M,up-arrow which then showed the chip icon - so grabbing the corner of the screen and enlarging then showed all the elements. So it looks like it is all working on OpenBSD using: port:fred ~/code/nand2tetris> java -version openjdk version "1.8.0_45" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_45-b14) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.45-b02, mixed mode) code java OpenBSD error

sunday, 5 july 2015
Cinema: Minions An excellent film! Email Disclaimers Do Email Disclaimers Really Work? : an interesting article on the American Bar Assoiciation website, explaining the email disclaimers are not worth the electrons they waste. An interesting misconception that it raises is that adding a disclaimer cost nothing - that it is rubbish - you are adding an enourmous amount of unneccessary storage requirement as that message will be duplicated by the number of times your organisation sends eamils - yes storage is relatively cheap but why are you filling it up and backing up this useless collection of electrons? Frank Herbert by Timothy O'Reilly Frank Herbert by Timothy O'Reilly : need to add this to my list of books to read. From NAND to Tetris Building a Modern Computer from First Principles. film book email cs

saturday, 4 july 2015
Scottish Regional BMX Cumbernauld Centurions bmx

tuesday, 30 june 2015
Puffins Went to Meall a' Bhuic GR398700, just north of Durness and saw the Puffins nesting above the sea Arch. Picture taken using my phone looking through one lens of my binoculars. The moon over the Kyle of Tongue, Scotland, picture taken at 23:05 this evening. photo puffin

thursday, 25 june 2015
ScotLUG lug

thursday, 18 june 2015
The Paradox of Progress Came across this book from the following recommendation: I have just discovered that one of my favourite books on General Practice 'The Paradox of Progress' is available free of charge from the author, James Willis book

sunday, 14 june 2015
Scottish Regional BMX Western Titans bmx

friday, 12 june 2015
State School Sport An interesting artical by Alastair Campbell , raising some interesting points. Flatpack Democracy The Flatpack Democracy book by Peter MacFadyen, turned up today. Subtitled "A DIY Guide to Creating Independent Politics". education book

wednesday, 3 june 2015
Fun Day Bikeability Scotland Cycle Trainer course in August.

tuesday, 2 june 2015
Domain Name Dispute respond http://www.bmxscotland.co.uk/glasgow1/index.html and on https://www.youtube.com/user/BMXRacingScotland Also .net .nl .com have not been registered…only .co.uk… Glasgow JS The Glasgow Javascript User Group. G3 8AZ A couple of good talks - 10 points for the JavaScript development and What has JQuery ever done for us? code js

saturday, 30 may 2015
Scottish Regional BMX Musselburgh Monarchs: cancelled :~( bmx

thursday, 28 may 2015
Python UUID >>> import uuid >>> uuid.uuid4() UUID('03cd76aa-7b6e-41b0-96fb-55655fd40b2f') Useful as primary keys: auto increment is a terrible idea . Domain Name Dispute http://www.bmxscotland.co.uk/glasgow1/index.html and on https://www.youtube.com/user/BMXRacingScotland Need to reply. python dns

thursday, 21 may 2015
Computer Repair crystal repairs Lessons in Teaching Computing in Primary School humour book

sunday, 17 may 2015
Scottish Regional BMX Cumbernauld Centurions The Truth about Unix is ugly and the complaints of 1981 are still relevant today :~) bmx unix

friday, 15 may 2015
Over Paid Idiots MP's expenses and pay… Holiday Pay for 7VG2F-15 and LHH Accessibility Engineering 17:00 Online Talk. My Job Scotland cpd mp

thursday, 14 may 2015
Snap! Snap! formerly BYOB is a drag and drop programming language. It is an extended reimplementation of Scratch - using Javascript and running in your browser. Its good to see an implementation that isn't dependant on a close source implementation. VPS Upgraded my VPS at Mythic Beasts to 5.7 using bsd.rd - simple smooth upgrade - also restarted the VPS to allow KVM to pick up the anti- VENOM fix. snap vps

saturday, 9 may 2015
Election Numbers… Votes for Conservative Party: 11334920 or 24.42% Votes for other Parties: 19363290 or 41.71% People who didn't vote: 15727176 or 33.88% 75.58% of the people didn't vote for the winners Knocked up a small python script to go through the election results, as shown above. A gist of the code is available on GitHub . python

friday, 8 may 2015
Ebay Scams… PayPal Python SDK

saturday, 2 may 2015
Athletics S1/S3 Girls and Boys v Wellington and Queen Victoria School at Kilmarnock Stadium Meet at the Sports Hall for 7.30 am in Full Tracksuit and PE kit. Athletics vest can be worn, but blue PE tops will also be acceptable. Bring warm clothes and a waterproofs as well as a snack and a water bottle. Spikes can be worn as this is a tartan track. Hoping to finish at 12.00 noon and return to Helensburgh for 1.30 pm. Porting? since neovim ports

thursday, 30 april 2015
slug Scotlug meet at Electron Club at 19:00 at CCA . TFT Framebuffer Linux Framebuffer drivers for small TFT LCD display modules Python Learning Resources Some Python Learning Resources from Anna's Blog : Codeacademy A Hands-on Introduction to Python for Beginning Programmers Programming for Everybody (Python) Django Girls Tutorial lug python

monday, 27 april 2015
Safeguarding Some useful safeguarding resources: British Cycling Safeguarding Safeguarding in Sport Safeguarding for Scotland safeguarding

sunday, 26 april 2015
Scottish Regional BMX Musselburgh Monarchs Racing at Titans. bmx

saturday, 18 april 2015
HTML Presentations Came across REVEAL.JS this week - need to have a play with this javascript presentation framework. js

wednesday, 8 april 2015
BMX 10:30 How to Read Source Code Mentions some useful javascript tools for beautifying javascipt: standard -F some.js jsfmt uglifyjs -b < some.js How to Teach Computer Science EduCon slide on struct by_inspiration{ how to teach computer science to anyone}; from a link on Hack Education . js cs

monday, 6 april 2015
Kaledioscope This tutorial implements a language with LLVM as a tutorial. TypeError: undefined is not a function A missing ; (semi-colon) proved to be the cause of this error message. code

saturday, 4 april 2015
Python Binary Clock Created a binary clock widget, code is in a gist . Was getting AttributeError: object has no attribute 'strftime' errors, initially, this turn out to be name space collision errors - I had initially named the file time.py . Colour Time Binary Updated colourtime.js to create a btime function, which uses the javascript toString(2) [1] Number.prototype.toString() : The toString() method returns a string representing the specified Number object. to convert the time to binary for the binary clock:   code js python

monday, 30 march 2015
convert I need to convert images to A4 paper size after some searching the resize or scaling gave some useful hints, allowing for conversion from jpg to pdf: convert input.jpg -colorspace sRGB -adaptive-resize 595x842^\> -gravity center -extent 595x842 output.pdf The output was not as sharp as I would have hoped for - so need some more testing. runes Need to test UTF-8 check out the UTF-8-demo.txt Mobile Phones My HTC Google Ion is back in service following an accident with water… Following the hint at Andriod: change google account : Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications Click on Google Apps Click "Clear Data" Stop using tail -f(mostly) Stop using tail -f(mostly) : an interesting article on using less +F as an alternative. mobile

sunday, 29 march 2015
Scottish Regional BMX Cumbernauld Centurions

thursday, 26 march 2015
keyboard.io Discussed making your own keyboard at the S LUG meeting, covering ErgoDox, Axios , Atreus , and of course the Maltron range of keyboards. keyboard

wednesday, 25 march 2015
... board - if you get the SDA and SCL lines round the wrong way you ...

sunday, 22 march 2015
Scottish Regional BMX Western Titans Excellent days racing - roll on next round - next weekend :~) Arduino When using the Adafruit 2.8" TFT Arduino shield ensure that Adafruit_TFT.h has the following line uncommented: #define USE_ADAFUIT_SHIELD_PINOUT bmx arduino

thursday, 19 march 2015
VoIP Useful guide Configure Cisco IP Phones with Asterick using SIP . Some configuration details came from Setting up a SPA3102 for BT . To reboot the phone press: * 6 settings Future ideas: Asterisk Cisco 79XX XML services Cisco 79xx phone directory : using flask and Google contacts. Resources: 7940 & 7960 voip

wednesday, 18 march 2015
Safeguarding and Protecting Children Scotstoun Stadium, 18:30 to 21:30 72 Duncan Avenue, Glasgow, G14 9HD VoIP The Cisco IP Phone that I bought of eBay turned up to day, this lead to more adventures as my POE injector which does 48 V - required by the CP-7940G does power +ve on pins 4 & 5 and -ve on pins 7 & 8 where as Cisco does pins 1 & 2 for +ve and pins 3 & 6 for -ve. So I have a power supply on order - it was cheaper than buying another 48V POE injector that is compatible with the cisco. Standards are great - you get to pick the wrong one!

friday, 13 march 2015
Router Security Discovered that my modem ZyXel Prestige 600 series was vulnerable to Zynos (rom-0) attack router

wednesday, 11 march 2015
VoIP Linksys (Cisco) SPA3102 Voice Gateway arrived today. Used thttpd server to serve the new firmware: sudo /usr/sbin/thttpd -d /tftpboot/ -p 8000 Once the thttpd server was running used the following URL in my browser: http://192.168.0.1/admin/upgrade?http://192.168.0.2:8000/spa3102-5-2-13.bin This made the gateway upgrade it's firmware from 3.3.6 to the 5.2.13 which was the latest firmware available from Cisco. Linksys SPA 3102 - Making it work with Asterisk : a really useful blog post. voip

monday, 9 march 2015
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Dvorak rcs keyboard

thursday, 5 march 2015

thursday, 19 february 2015
Frog You know it's mild in February when you see a Frog in Scotland. showterm Application similar to asciinema . Disclosure Scotland PVG Scheme Record came through today. Disclosure Number: 200000003822649 frog pvg

friday, 23 january 2015
FreeBSD Installed FreeBSD on my x41: user@x41$ uname -a FreeBSD x41 10.1-RC3 FreeBSD 10.1-RC3 #0 r273437: Wed Oct 22 01:27:10 UTC 2014 root@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 It's been along time since FreeBSD 4.0 when I started with FreeBSD. FreeBSD uses svn - so yet another version control system to learn… I'll look for a git version another day. The handbook is good - but Greg Lehey's 3rd Edition of The Complete FreeBSD still has a place on my bookshelf. unlikely to be softdep Great description of full disk issue - solve by fstat(1) - look for processes have files open in the directory and then use ls(1) -iRa /thisdirectory and kill the processes with files open that are *not* linked until you find the one with the big file open. FreeBSD full disk OpenBSD

thursday, 22 january 2015

thursday, 8 january 2015
TypeError: unbound method Playing with python did not call thisclass = MyClass() so had a TypeError: unbound method It is code to see that codewars gets you to right your own tests as part of the coding - good habit! debug python

wednesday, 7 january 2015

sunday, 28 december 2014
OpenBSD projects An interesting list of OpenBSD projects . This grew from a question on misc@openbsd.org . Arduino Only just noticed that the BSDmakefiles have been replaced by standard Makefiles in the arduino on OpenBSD. make followed by make upload to load it onto the arduino. OpenBSD arduino

sunday, 21 december 2014
PHP Science Labs Some interesting php scripts for science and mathematics.

tuesday, 9 december 2014
Register for NCC Winter Series Registration details on the Schedule

friday, 5 december 2014
Shodan In interesting search engine, and blog Outernet Outernet are crowd funding Latern - which is a data device. You can build your own with a Raspberry Pi or other device using the following ORx scripts. repos tributary : rapidly prototyping visualization code( website ). DSTL : web app Tour de dub Titans BMX - background for Mungo's Hi Fi - Tour de dub : we're in the video!

monday, 1 december 2014
Finish L2CCC GTC Scotland Phone 0131 314 6000: ask about teaching in Scotland. CAS North East Conference is it worth attending?

friday, 28 november 2014
Educational Systems The Process, Impact and Future of One-to-One iPads at Cedars School of Excellence : You tube of Fraser Speirs : Mobile Education Consultant , he runs Out of School , using Caspar Suite for managment of the devices.

thursday, 27 november 2014
Slug http://scotlug.github.io/ : the new Scotlug website. Keyboard Mod snake on a keyboard ;~) slug kbd

tuesday, 18 november 2014
"not rocket science"

friday, 14 november 2014

sunday, 9 november 2014
dmesg (dmesg; sysctl hw.sensors) | mail -s "VDS: working well" dmesg@openbsd.org dmesg bsd

monday, 3 november 2014
Register for NCC Winter Series Registration details on the Schedule gimp Hearts with layers and Alpha to selection : needed for a card. Libretto 70CT Due to memory limitations I'm currently running OpenBSD 2.9 on my Libretto. libretto bsd OpenBSD puters

friday, 31 october 2014
list Material Design Tech Belly discourse Scottish Jobs Github Remote Jobs The Clue Train Manifesto ConnectBot bridge zyxel?

thursday, 30 october 2014
if I had five less followers… I missed Scot LUG Success 40% of OpenBSD installs lead to shark attacks. It's their only standing security issue…

thursday, 23 october 2014
VNC on MacMini Found this article: Manage VNC / screen sharing password remotely which explains where the vnc password is stored and how to view it using perl: sudo cat /Library/Preferences/com.apple.VNCSettings.txt | perl -wne 'BEGIN { @k = unpack "C*", pack "H*", "1734516E8BA8C5E2FF1C39567390ADCA"}; chomp; @p = unpack "C*", pack "H*", $_; foreach (@k) { printf "%c", $_ ^ (shift @p || 0) }; print "\n"' hello   $ perl -we 'BEGIN { @k = unpack "C*", pack "H*", "1734516E8BA8C5E2FF1C39567390ADCA"}; $_ = <>; chomp; s/^(.{8}).*/$1/; @p = unpack "C*", $_; foreach (@k) { printf "%02X", $_ ^ (shift @p || 0) }; print "\n"' | sudo tee /Library/Preferences/com.apple.VNCSettings.txt hello 7F513D02E4A8C5E2FF1C39567390ADCA With ssvnc the vncpasswd command is called vncstorepw. vnc

monday, 13 october 2014
The Rise of Superman An interesting read on the science of high performance - this book was recommended by Mark from Toptal. book

wednesday, 8 october 2014
Discourse Forum software from Jeff Atwood. Involuntary Bioslaughter and Why a Spider is Dead An excellent article on importance of Scientic Collecting - and a great article on the Goliath Spider. invertebrates arachnid

sunday, 5 october 2014
Scottish Open 2014 Cumbernauld Centurions BMX Club Scottish Open 2014 : at Broadwood Stadium, 1 Ardgoil Drive, Cumbernauld, G68 9NE

friday, 3 october 2014
Register for NCC Winter Series Registration details on the Schedule

tuesday, 30 september 2014
ɒ Wanted a turned a - took a bit of hunting down but found it at: ɒ Javascript CLI Overhauling unixkcd to give it a OpenBSD feel. The code is available on GitHub .

thursday, 25 september 2014
e Radio 4 did a program on e this morning - need to listen to it. Scot LUG Meeting Scotlug meet at Electron Club at 19:00 at CCA . Alice Grove Comic by Jeph Jacques which updates twice a week and started in September 2014.

friday, 19 september 2014
Nano Station - OpenWRT Using tftp to reflash the Nano station, but it kept failing, until I realised that I was not setting tftp> binary so the file was being sent as ascii instead. [1] from the man page: mode transfer-mode Set the mode for transfers; transfer-mode may be one of ascii or binary . The default is ascii . This is was part of my work to bring my server cabinet into my home network - I had hoped to use electrical plugs but the mains supplies were different. deviantART gMail in a Browser : using firefox, mutt and vte_plugin.

wednesday, 3 september 2014
USE_SYSTRACE=Yes Received the following errors while building the pyflakes package: systrace: deny user: fred, prog: /usr/bin/make, pid: 13897(0)[0], policy: /usr/bin/make, filters: 244, syscall: native-getentropy(7), args: 16 These were easily fixed with a cvs up in my /usr/ports directory.

tuesday, 2 september 2014
get_iplayer Thankfully flash is difficult to use on OpenBSD - thus usually I have not managed to get iplayer to work on OpenBSD - but I was just not aware of get_iplayer [1] Discovered on OpenBSD mailing list: Can OpenBSD access BBC Iplayer? Thanks to Anthony Campbell for letting me know of this existance of get_iplayer. which works well.

thursday, 28 august 2014
Scot LUG Meeting Scotlug meet at Electron Club at 19:00 at CCA : 5 min walk from Charing Cross. lug

friday, 1 august 2014
Introduction to Linux:lfs101x Signed up for this edX course - need to work out if it's worth doing the paid version. Started the course today, so far so good - a good general introduction. What system should I use? Linux freeshell.de 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.60-1+deb7u1 x86_64 GNU/Linux KVM on OpenBSD? Arch Linux on BBB Scottish Regional Round 10 17 August 2014 : entered. bmx

saturday, 19 july 2014
... man page\(dq .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Sh DESCRIPTION Print .Qq My first man ...

tuesday, 15 july 2014
sysctl.conf sysctl.conf has moved to the attic - the file has moved to etc/examples - and any sysctl's required to servive a reboot are just added to /etc/sysctl.conf

monday, 14 july 2014
SQL Joins on stackoverflow - found through lobste.rs here Unofficial BASH Strict Mode Unofficial BASH Srict Mode is article about using the set -euo pipefail mode for BASH scripts to make them work more efficently, and allow easier debugging. bash debug pipefail set sql

saturday, 12 july 2014

monday, 19 may 2014
sqlports The OpenBSD ports database is now in an sqlite db: port:fred ~> sqlite3 /usr/local/share/sqlports and so you can query the tables: SQLite version 3.8.4.3 OpenBSD Enter ".help" for usage hints. sqlite> select name from sqlite_master where type='table' order by name; Broken Categories Configure ConfigureArgs DPBProperties Depends Descr Flavors MasterSites Modules Multi NotForArch OnlyForArch Paths Ports PseudoFlavors ReadMe Shared_Libs Targets Wantlib Using .tables and .schema works at the sqlite> prompt. Exploring Binary

monday, 5 may 2014
Ztype Final Score: 001404 Accuracy: 84.2% WPM: 38 Higher score - lower accuracy and words per minute… More typing practice required :~) E is for Electronics Colouring Book : from Adafruit

saturday, 3 may 2014
OpenBSD Release process OpenBSD release process: unlock tree from 5.4 release, become 5.4-current (occurred july 29, 2013) ~6 months of rapid development for work to become 5.5 5.4 is formally released from stuff up to july (occurred november 1, 2013) slow down, no big changes, abi/api lock, become 5.5-beta tree locks, hopefully no remaining changes (occurred feb 28, 2014) developers test final snapshots on all archs, discuss outstanding issues OPENBSD_5_5 is tagged, considered "5.5 release" CD images are created for 5.5 release, Theo works on getting artwork, giving CD images to pressing plant tree unlocks, becomes 5.5-current (occurred march 5, 2014), rapid development starts leading up to 5.6 CDs for 5.5 release start shipping, ftp release happens may 1, 2014 Thanks to jcs for this overview. release OpenBSD

thursday, 1 may 2014
BMX Planning Application asciinema The misc/asciinema was resubmitted to ports@ and successfully test on OpenBSD amd64, i386 and macppc: I also successful tested pip installation: sudo pip install --upgrade asciinema

sunday, 20 april 2014
Top Lobster FizzBuzz As a result of not calling my self a programmer I came across Why can't programmers..program? and the FizzBuzz problem: Write a program that prints the numbers 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print "Fizz" instead of the number and for multiples of five print "Buzz". For numbers which are multiples of both 3 and 5 print "FizzBuzz". So far I've written C, php and Python versions - need to write a ksh version - might use Ksh Scripting as a guide - that and Learning the Korn Shell . On a side note I came across dribble : show and tell for designers. Owl Replaced the batteries in my OWL at 23:45 0 pence but 3.54 Kwh.

saturday, 19 april 2014
Nexus 7 My Nexus 7 was failing to start - so google provided the following advice: Press and hold volume down Press and hold power button after about 10 seconds the screen comes on Press the word "Start"

thursday, 27 march 2014
... vm for scratch. port:fred ~> SC_DIR=/usr/local/share/scratch/ ...

saturday, 22 march 2014
LaTeX For Sale Signs Using the beamer LaTeX package to generate for sale signs: \usepackage[orientation=landscape,size=a4,scale=1.4,debug]{beamerposter} \usepackage[english]{babel} \title{For Sale Sign with \LaTeX} \author[Fred]{Fred Crowson} \date{\today} \begin{document} \begin{frame}{} \vfill \begin{block} {\VeryHuge \centering \textbf{Stolen Sinner}} \end{block} \begin{block} {\veryHuge \centering \textbf{For Sale}} \end{block} \begin{block} {\veryHuge \centering \textbf{\textsterling75 ONO}} \end{block} \begin{block} {\LARGE \centering Contact Fred Crowson} \end{block} \vfill \end{frame} \end{document}

wednesday, 19 march 2014
Ztype Final Score: 001328 Accuracy: 85.7% WPM: 40.4 bison Started to try and update > bison but it needs to use our m4… (see updating bison error ). ports help show the use of the portslogger tool: make install 2>&1 | /usr/ports/infrastructure/bin/portslogger ./ mpd Set up MPD and installed ario (gtk client) and ncmpc( cl client) and used the daemonforums how-to. Also installed id3ed to edit tags in my mp3 so the correct artist and file information is available. id3ed -i filename.mp3 This shows the tag information for an mp3 file.

thursday, 6 march 2014
partiallyattended Came across Ian Mulvany Blog - provided some interesting articles and links to other Science Publishing information. nginx Started playing with moving my webstuff to nginx, using unix sockets - as a result of the hint from this blog . nginx using ServerBlocks not VirtualServers. ftp lpr In order to force a print job to use A4 paper, I had to do: lpr -P C500 -o media=A4 page.pdf This hint came from cups

wednesday, 5 march 2014
sparc Trying to get a sparc machine going - discovered my SS5 was failing with a cache failure. The SS5 was running OpenBSD 3.7 when it died.

monday, 3 march 2014
NFF Chase up accommodation for 29-3 to 1-4 Helensburgh - 5 Minutes drive from centre For Information and Bookings The Drumfork Centre Phone: (01436) 6709100 CAF Manager Phone: (01436) 677266 Keyboards Parts HobbyTronics : for teensy, mouser for key switches and QWERkeys for keys, designs: ErgoDox and atreus , with information from geekhack . chrome Chrome (chromium) on OpenBSD was opening pdf 's with inkscape and not a pdf viewer - had a similar issue on debian . The archlinux wiki was a useful resource. Testing changes to xdg-mine can be done by: xdg-open fileoftest.type pdf keyboards chrome

sunday, 2 march 2014
Thoughts on Flash Steve Jobs wrote some interesting thoughts on flash: the future is HTML, CSS and Javascript. Kippo I've been running a ssh honeypot using Kippo on and off since the 16 Feb 14 and in that time I have seen 2219 failed logins using 1246 unique passwords. You can tell that many attacks are automated as they continue trying passwords after they have successfully guessed a password. A bike shed (any colour will do) on greener grass… Why to certain old articles keep turning up? Keyboard Hacking Ergo keyboard from reading about the Atreus keyboard, BOM . js python humour keyboard

saturday, 1 march 2014
Scot LUG Meets at the Electron Club at CCA , 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD . They meet on the last Thursday of the month, at 19:00 for 19:30. DragonFly BSD Digest Worth a read. lug bsd

friday, 28 february 2014
OpenSCAD Built Eigen3 (and tested : see code below ) - using openbsd-wip - but the dependancies where not being found (then I realised the check-dependancies script relied on bash not sh…) but it was still not finding eigen3 and it couldn't find qt4 and wanted a newer version of bison! Fixed the eigen3 issue the script was over writing the path! [earlier] Change order or eigen discovery. Eigen3 Test port:fred ~/code/eigen> g++ -I /usr/local/include/eigen3/ first.cpp -o first port:fred ~/code/eigen> ./first 3 -1 5 1.5 ports

thursday, 27 february 2014
... Building OpenSCAD Started building OpenSCAD from source git clone https ...

monday, 24 february 2014
... name change to redshift-gtk. OpenSCAD Time to test clang build and ...

wednesday, 19 february 2014
OpenSCAD Set up openscad to use Vim as an external editor[ 1 ]. Started designing my ultimate computer desk. UPS : mini versions picoUPS 100 12V DC mirco system battery backup or picoUPS 120 12V DC micro UPS battery backup ups ports

wednesday, 12 february 2014
Arduino in C When building my code for my arduino I kept getting the following error: make: don't know how to make Adafruit_GFX.o (prerequisite of: applet/core.a) The answer was to change the library names from dashes to underscores ( adafruit learning system ) I then received lots errors like: error: 'int16_t' has not been declared Made sure I was using the latest BSDmakefile and then the error changed to: *** Error 1 in /home/fred/code/arduino/backp (BSDmakefile:246 'applet/backp.elf') Turned out that I was missing utility/twi from the libraries line in LIBRARIES=Wire Adafruit_GFX Adafruit_LEDBackpack utility/twi with this the hex file built. South Region BMX Pre-Reg South Region BMX race pre-registration

sunday, 9 february 2014
Lemon Crunch Pie Ingredients: 3 Lemons Small carton of double cream 300 ml [1] You can use single cream but the mixture is more fluid and needs longer to set :~) 1 tin of condensed milk (397g) Base: 330g Digestive Biscuits and 180g Butter Instructions Heat butter in sauce pan, add crushed biscuits. Stir until biscuits are coated with butter. Place biscuit mixture into a pie dish (this amount gives a good base for 22.5cm diameter (9 inch) cake tin), pat down evenly. Place into the oven to cook for 10 to 15 mins at 170° Place condensed milk into a bowl and beat. Grate the peal from all three lemons add to the condensed milk beat. Add the juice of lemons beat. Add the cream and beat. This mixture will thicken. When the base is cool add the lemon mixture. Place in fridge to set. Made the pie and it was great - need to tweak some of the amounts. recipe

wednesday, 5 february 2014
ServerToken OS Seeing if setting the ServerToken OS will get Netcraft to realise I run OpenBSD. So to test my servers I used telnet: port:fred ~> telnet atom 80 Trying 192.168.5.9... Connected to atom. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD / HTTP/1.1 Host: port.crowsons.com User-Agent: telnet HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 23:20:36 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

monday, 3 february 2014
... sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: SCSI3 0/direct fixed naa.50015178f366232e ...

wednesday, 29 january 2014
Cardboard Helmet Abus Kranium Performance Helmet as discussed in this BBC news article on Paper Helmets . Velorution can be found here . CD to mp3 Using Nick Holland's old post: Using and Creating MP3s with OpenBSD as a starting point for developing a script to rip my OpenBSD Songs 4.1 to 5.1 CD that turned up yesterday. Atom Added Jetway JNC9MGL-525 dmesg database - need to test upgrade to 5.5.

monday, 27 january 2014
Postcode Finder Moor Lea, EX33 2HP != Moor Lane thttpd Came across thttpd as a result of BeagleBone post on Ted Unangst's flak . But thttpd has not been maintained since release 2.25b in Dec 2003 - the supported fork is now sthttpd which is an OpenBSD package - but I only discovered this after building it myself and fixing the build issues that I came across. bbb

saturday, 18 january 2014

thursday, 9 january 2014
... OpenSCAD update in OpenBSD ports OpenSCAD updated to 2013.06 ...

monday, 6 january 2014
... dependencies and installed OpenSCAD , but noticed that the OpenBSD ...

thursday, 12 december 2013
Android Studio Installed android studio on debian - following the instructions at debian wiki . The initial version of android studio 0.3.2 did not update automatically so I downloaded the 0.3.7 and installed that. aws Added postgreSQL, nginx, php5-fpm, drupal7 to my aws instance - nearly ready for testing… ssh admin@public.ip.addr -i aws/backupkey.pem And discovered no php5-suhosin in Wheezy.

wednesday, 11 december 2013
eee PC Set up x11vnc to start automatically on user login on the eee PC using a shell script: #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/x11vnc -rc ~/.x11vncrc This script explicitly calls the .x11vncrc file which contains the following x11vnc settings: display :0 rfbauth .vnc/mums_pc forever localhost Xfce calls this script using "Applications Menu-> Settings -> Session and Startup" To maintain security of VNC I access the remote desktop through ssh: ssh remote.machine -g -L 5900:127.0.0.1:5900 FIT Standing at 06694.12 as of today! vnc ssh bash

sunday, 1 december 2013
KDS Winter School

saturday, 30 november 2013
KDS Winter School

saturday, 23 november 2013
ACSC Families Day

sunday, 17 november 2013
Silicon Milkround Silicon Milk Round Scale Factory Steer SQR Skills Matter Rentify Potato Pitchup.com OpenAsset A good event - shame there weren't more part-time remote opportunities. jobs

monday, 21 october 2013
ShrimpingIt Count down… And the Shrimp Schematic: schematic Compared to: Arduino pin mapping MineCraft on OpenBSD Running minecraft server on OpenBSD: /usr/local/jdk-1.7.0/bin/java -Xmx256m -jar /var/games/minecraft/minecraft_server.jar nogui

sunday, 13 october 2013
... sd1 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd1: 1832MB, 512 ...

saturday, 28 september 2013
Gitolite The install script is now portable due to this: commit . More gitolite stuff: ssh keys commands . git

sunday, 15 september 2013
Bristol Half Marathon Club Championships East Kent Designing Internet Scale On Designing and Deploying Internet-Scale Services by James Hamilton

wednesday, 31 july 2013

thursday, 25 july 2013
... sd2 at scsibus3 targ 1 lun 1: SCSI2 0/direct removable Jul 25 15:24:26 ...

tuesday, 16 july 2013
git Slowly setting up my git server using gitolite: ssh -T git@git.crowsons.com to view repos and git clone git@git.crowsons.com:repo to clone. Useful Unix commands Blog By Greg Reda http://www.gregreda.com/2013/07/15/unix-commands-for-data-science/

sunday, 14 july 2013
BMX Charlotte is going to Girls Only BMX Coaching at Gosport BMX Club 12:00 to 14:00 GoBMX on Facebook ripping Naddy gave some good advice to @misc mailing list with using lsdvd and mplayer to rip DVD's using: $ mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile file.vob dvd://1 see here

sunday, 7 july 2013
South Regional BMX Rd 7 Hayes UB3 1NA Blogs Bodgit & Scarper's blog . bmx bodgit

wednesday, 26 june 2013
gitolite Setting up a new gitolite server notes: created user git with home directory of /var/git gitolite/install script has a cp -a * $to this needed to be changed to cp -R * $to gitolite admin used a new key Created a new empty repository but it was giving: No refs in common and none specified; doing nothing. when pushing to this new repository, this was fixed with: git push origin master git

monday, 24 june 2013
BT Phone Cancelled 11 mins and 25 seconds - most of which was on hold waiting to give thirty days notice - no longer using BT line - due to moving to Virgin Broadband. Lexmark C500N AppSocket/HP JetDirect socket://192.168.5.66 Name, description and location details Make: Lexmark Model: Lexmark C500 Foomatic/foo2slx (recommended)(en) Set default options Test print … Success :~) You can talk to the printer direct through telnet: Lexmark International Telnet login: sysadm Password: no password C500 Configuration Utility 1.0 Unit Name: LX_00G38944 Serial Number: 00G38944 OpenBSD installation A big thanks is required for the developers of foo2slx printer driver for Lexmark C500N. pkg_add -v foo2zjs /etc/rc.d/cups restart set up as above :~)

tuesday, 4 june 2013
screen shots Unix screen capture (screenshots) can be done with xwd(1) or import(1)

friday, 24 may 2013
Inkscape Useful forum post about converting jpg to svg

sunday, 19 may 2013
South Regional BMX Rd 4 Hersden CT3 4HX A good days racing - but those berms were loose! LaTeX Invoices Just generated my first invoice in LaTeX - ended up editing the invoice.sty file to fix a bug that was discussed here and also edited the invoice.def file to change some headings. This bug can be fixed in invoice by using \RequirePackage{fp} in place of \input{fp}. bmx latex

thursday, 16 may 2013
chroot curl OpenBSD I couldn't work out why my Pushover script was not working in the default chrooted apache on OpenBSD - using: sudo ktrace -di httpd -X and then looking through the ktrace.out file with kdump I came across: 14523 httpd NAMI "/etc/ssl/cert.pem" 14523 httpd RET open -1 errno 2 No such file or directory and once I had copied /etc/ssl/cert.pem into the chroot - all was good! curl chroot OpenBSD

friday, 10 may 2013
Screen Issues My Sony SDM-S204E after nine years sterling service developed a fault where the a four centimetre vertical strip in the middle would go fuzzy and then eventually go to a grey or black strip, making it frustrating to work with, so I have replaced it with a Samsung S22B150N LCD Monitor awesome Thunderbird was always opening maximised - just need to do Mod4 + m as mentioned in the FAQ :  Maximised applications x41 Added a 2GB SO-DIMM chip to my x41 - so it now has 2 Gb memory - but the onboard 512Mb chip is not recognised as the new chip is not PC2-4200: real mem = 2137387008 (2038MB) avail mem = 2091048960 (1994MB) 0:2:1: mem address conflict 0x7f700000/0x80000 spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x51: 2GB DDR2 SDRAM non-parity PC2-5300CL5 SO-DIMM Not sure if I will notice any improvements with the extra memory. lcd x41 keyboard lcd

thursday, 18 april 2013
CLI RAM : free  [ debian ] and a dmesg|grep mem for OpenBSD , or sysctl hw|grep mem CPU On Mac OS X sysctl -n machdep.cpu.brand_string or system_profiler|grep -i process and on Debian: cat /proc/cpuinfo mode lines System Info: dmidecode Used cvt to get a working mode line for xrandr when gtf failed: Mode lines: cvt Brett Sommit Real Weird

saturday, 13 april 2013
pf advice Some excellent advice from Stu about pf: tcpdump -neipflog0 -vv pfctl -sr -R <number> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=136589279409498&w=2

monday, 25 march 2013
KMS OpenBSD has KMS in -current - which I'm playing with on my x41 , it's currently slower than it was when running X - screen redraws are obvious. The funniest bit is that the virtual consoles all over write each other which makes switching between virtual consoles a bit tricky. Some more links Freescale SABRE Lite Design and Novena - Open Source laptop

friday, 25 january 2013
Arduino Uno's arrived :~) Two new Arduino Uno's arrived today from Oomlout super speedy delivery! programming Arduino's with C WeScheme An interesting Video game project use algebraic concepts to create video games: WeScheme

friday, 14 december 2012
... CSAS,+CRES,+CSCA,+CSMP,+CSDH,+CSCB,+FDD,+FAR,+FCL,+FIT,+ES,+ESA,+ ...

tuesday, 11 december 2012
Mileage As at home time today I have clocked up a recorded 6706.18 miles in 613:57:12 hours giving me an average of 10.9 mph, so it is slowly accelerating :~) Calibre : ebook management I decided it was time to back up my daughters kindle so I installed Calibre . Initially here kindle was not detected, but a quick search of the internet found this bug report I then edited the python driver file, and hey presto her kindle was discovered!

sunday, 9 december 2012
BMX and Scoot Race at Bournemouth

saturday, 1 december 2012
Winter School

sunday, 3 june 2012
CSS Image Stuff CSS Image Tech from GUI Stuff , discusses methods for putting multiple images or icons in a single image file.

tuesday, 22 may 2012
Python Summer School Python Summer School is a project from Anglia Ruskin University to help prepare teachers learn python in preparation for teaching Computing Science. Debian Man Pages http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi Python Clock How to make a clock in tkinter using time.strftime debian python

thursday, 3 may 2012
More python Think like a computer scientist django and nginx Running nginx in base on 5.1-current and having a play with django!

wednesday, 2 may 2012
Javascript Slides slides with code… The Essence of SQL A book about SQL that I would love to find, from David Rozenshtein. Here's the bibtex entry: @book{rozenshtein1997essence, title={The Essence of SQL: A Guide to Learning Most of SQL in the Least Amount of Time}, author={Rozenshtein, D.}, isbn={9780964981218}, lccn={96092799}, url={http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qpNgPAAACAAJ}, year={1997}, publisher={SQL Forum Press} } book

wednesday, 18 april 2012
Google Map URL parameters query string parameters Jobs ICT Teacher Ofsted School details

monday, 9 april 2012
A manifesto for teaching computing An excellent article in the Guardian: A manifesto for teaching computer science in the 21st century

tuesday, 31 january 2012
Scratch 1.4 on OpenBSD 5.1-beta Had to edit the iniscratch file to the 1.4 file locations, and after removing my Scratch directory, and rerunning iniscratch all appears to be working well. Created a shape drawing program - see Scratch files , as a start to creating some KS1 and KS2 resources.

saturday, 14 january 2012
BETT Science Museum

sunday, 4 december 2011
KDS Winter School

saturday, 3 december 2011
KDS Winter School

friday, 2 december 2011
misc@ Professional OS man man 1 indent man 9 style

thursday, 27 october 2011
gkrellm Clock config Wanted to set the gkrellm clock to 24 hours and discovered that it uses the time formats that are in man (3) strftime

monday, 17 october 2011
Periodic Table The periodic table of elements is useful for Chemistry. KDE has an excellent Periodic Table application called kalzium , which on OpenBSD is in the kdeedu package (usually installed to /usr/local/bin/kalzium). I was reminded of this by the xkcd comic called Elements , and discovered that the current version of the periodic table is credited to Dmitri Mendeleev , who published his table in 1869.

tuesday, 30 august 2011
sed Kept getting sed: -e expression #1, char 5: unterminated `s' command errors - which was PEBKAC I need the -f option for sedscript the -e option is for adding a script to the commands to be executed. Should have used: sed -f sedscript filename

tuesday, 2 august 2011
LaTex: Underscores Had the following error in LateX ! Missing $ inserted which was due to the fact that I had not escaped the _ in the tex file.

tuesday, 26 july 2011
3600.36 Miles Downloaded my data from my Garmin 310XT and discovered that I have covered 3600.36 miles since I purchase it, in 398 Hours and 18 minutes, which only gives me an average of 9 miles per hour - need to Cycle, Run and Swim faster :~)

thursday, 21 july 2011
Muppetry Updated my Thinkpad X41 Laptop to OpenBSD 5.0-beta, used sysmerge to update /etc and then when I tried to start X it failed with: (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found This was due to OpenBSD not allowing X to access the memory and was fixed by uncommenting the sysctl.conf 'machdep.allowaperture=' setting, and was the first line in the Xorg.0.log file: (WW) checkDevMem: failed to open /dev/xf86 and /dev/mem (Operation not permitted) Check that you have set 'machdep.allowaperture=1' in /etc/sysctl.conf and reboot your machine refer to xf86(4) for details

thursday, 7 july 2011
PostgreSQL I was looking for a function in postgresql that was equivalent to Oracle's nvl(), the answer turned out to be coalesce() which accepts a list of arguments, so arguably it is more flexible than nvl(). aspell For checking spelling in HTML files: aspell -l en_GB -H check file.name Or if checking Tex files: aspell -l en_GB -t check file.tex Or if you want to an ignore words list: aspell -l en_GB -p /home/user/.aspell.en.pws -t check file.tex spelling sql

monday, 13 june 2011
HTML5 http://diveintohtml5.org/ Javascript MDN have a good online reference for Javascript at https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript . Is it time to learn js? FireBug for development. html js

monday, 6 june 2011
Schema.org http://schema.org/ adds meta data to web pages for enhanced search. This might be good for search but it is not good for validation !

monday, 23 may 2011
Random day in May conn sys/Oracl3 as sysdba select name, floor(space_limit/1024/1024) "Size Mb", ceil(space_used/1024/1024) "Used Mb" from v$recovery_file_dest alter system set db_recovery_file_dest_size=30000m scope both; Actually needed sys/Oracl3@live as sysdba; This event happened in the autumn, this is the SQL solution.

thursday, 19 may 2011
blandroid Just discovered: blandroid

thursday, 3 march 2011
Technical Forum JISC technical forum, Portsmouth University. cpd

wednesday, 23 february 2011
Rainfall Problem Added a scratch version of the Rainfall Problem , but currently it does not check that input is a positive integer, which is part of the specification. PCC in Beta PCC is in beta release state. code pcc

tuesday, 15 february 2011
MSc in Information Security Partnership MSc Programme

monday, 14 february 2011
MPC-L MPC-L is an £90 compact machine httpd http(8) patch to allow location of etag-state to be configured built this patch for testing. on_url_shorteners An interesting article by joshua schachter on url shortening - raising some interesting points. url

tuesday, 18 january 2011
YASS YASS from the Open University Python PySchools python

sunday, 12 december 2010
Foundations of Computer Science http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs.html : Foundations of Computer Science. cs

sunday, 5 december 2010
Winter School: KDS Stoke and.. CSEd Week kds

saturday, 4 december 2010
Winter School: KDS Stoke kds

friday, 3 december 2010
Winter School: KDS Stoke Winter School details kds

sunday, 28 november 2010
iBook G4 DAS keyboard: Home made obscurity :~) das keyboard

friday, 5 november 2010
Granada: KDS Winter School details kds

tuesday, 7 september 2010
School

saturday, 14 august 2010
Summer School Canterbury kds

wednesday, 23 june 2010
What is Computer Science https://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/home/page/teaching/wics.html Zend Framework Developing a CAS database using the Zend Framework on OpenBSD . zf configure db-adapter 'adapter=PDO_POSTGRESQL&host=localhost&dbname=cas&username=zfuser&password=pass' This command failed as I had the pdo adapter name wrong it was the abbreviated one of pgsql! zf configure db-adapter 'adapter=PDO_PGSQL&host=localhost&dbname=cas&username=zfuser&password=pass' This was successful. Configuring Zend to use a PostgreSQL database. sql php cs

thursday, 20 may 2010
TeachMeet Hampshire TeachMeet . Teachmeet Hampshire - Thursday May 20th - St Mary's Stadium, Southampton 6-9pm 7 Minute Presentation on Scratch… cpd

friday, 7 may 2010
Three men are in a hot-air balloon. Soon, they find themselves lost in a canyon somewhere. One of the three men says, “I’ve got an idea. We can call for help in this canyon and the echo will carry our voices to the end of the canyon. Someone’s bound to hear us by then!” So he leans over the basket and screams out, “Helllloooooo! Where are we?” (They hear the echo several times). Fifteen minutes later, they hear this echoing voice: “Helllloooooo! You’re lost!” The shouter comments, “That must have been a mathematician.” Puzzled, his friends asks, “Why do you say that?” “For three reasons. First, he took a long time to answer, second, he was absolutely correct, and, third, his answer was absolutely useless.” Source halting problem joke

thursday, 6 may 2010
Games Dyson Telescope game

sunday, 25 april 2010
Spring School: KDS Hatfield kds

saturday, 24 april 2010
Spring School: KDS Hatfield kds karate

wednesday, 7 april 2010
Self Documenting Code How to ensure your code is readable as described Here , but this is no substitute for good man pages… Reset my iPod Press menu & centre button for about 6 seconds ( Apple Support ) code ipod

friday, 26 march 2010
Keyboard Shortcuts High contrast (reverse video): Shift + Alt + PrtScn Rotate Screen Ctrl + Alt + Arrow Key keyboard

sunday, 21 march 2010
Computing at School Useful resources: AS Computing resources from Poole High School. Computer Science for Fun Computer Science for Fun website Scratch Miles Berry Slide for Programming Scratch Some interesting Ideas Improving Visualisation A-Level Computing

friday, 19 march 2010
Computing at School Conference Archbishop Tenison's School in Croydon hosted a CAS Conference. Professional Day cpd

monday, 15 march 2010
BCS Hampshire Branch Title: Conscription for the Cyber-War Joint Event with BCS Cybercrime Forensics Specialist Group, BCS Hampshire Branch and Southampton Solent University Speaker: Denis Edgar-Nevill FBCS, CITP, Chair BCS Cybercrime Forensics SG Time: 6pm for 6:30 start Venue: Herbert Collins Building, Southampton Solent University, SO14 0RD cpd

wednesday, 3 march 2010
Teaching Computing Shaw House, Church Road, Newbury, BERKSHIRE RG14 2DR . Time: 16:30 to 19:00 Organised with Computing at School Computer games development: Games development with scratch ict cs education

tuesday, 9 february 2010
NETSCC Interview What are the aspirations for the post over the next year?

sunday, 31 january 2010
... Computer Programs book from MIT SCIP book link book scip ...

saturday, 30 january 2010
Lexmark C500N Finally managed to get the C500N to work with Mac OS X 10.6 following the advice from Apple Support Communities . The original link is now dead but the link is now: Lexmark C500 & Snow Leopard . [1] This link is dead: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2150119&start=15&tstart=1 lexmark c500 printer

sunday, 6 december 2009
Winter School Booking Ref: AM52FC BE148 Newcastle to Southampton 18:15 19:30 karate kds

friday, 4 december 2009
Winter School Booking Ref: AM52FC BE149 Southampton to Newcastle 19:55 21:10 Course information: Winter School KDS karate kds

friday, 18 september 2009
8th European BSD Conference Cambridge Schedule bsd

sunday, 23 august 2009
KDS Summer School kds karate

saturday, 22 august 2009
KDS Summer School kds karate

friday, 21 august 2009
KDS Summer School kds karate

thursday, 20 august 2009
KDS Summer School Unix reaches 40 40 years of Unix - source BBC unix kds karate

wednesday, 19 august 2009
KDS Summer School kds karate

tuesday, 18 august 2009
KDS Summer School kds karate

monday, 17 august 2009
KDS Summer School kds karate

sunday, 16 august 2009
KDS Summer School kds karate

saturday, 15 august 2009
MEd - Dead Line KDS Summer School kds karate

saturday, 1 august 2009
London Triathlon Competing in the London Sprint Triathlon. Create a start of unit questionnaire Use limesurvey to create a start of unit questionnaire which includes what the students want to achieve from the scheme of work.

friday, 19 june 2009
Primary School Visits P1 IT1 - Lesson for Primary

thursday, 23 april 2009
BHERG Sixth Form Library, Bay House School 3.15 to 4.45 pm Report of SSAT NQT. Agenda 3.15 3.30 pm Arrival and refreshments 3.30 3.35 pm Introductions and welcome (GW) 3.35 3.45 pm Action Research: Year 7 Behaviour in English Nikki Owen, Social Science Department, Bay House School and Sixth Form. 3.45 3.55 pm SSAT NQT Leadership Programme Feedback and Research Interests 3.55 4.15 pm Building Learning Power: Learning Audit Dave Hall, Senior Teacher, Bay House School and Sixth Form. 4.15 4.35 pm Collaborative Cross-Curricular Working in Lower Sixth Cynthia Selby, Sixth Form ICT Coordinator, Bay House School and Sixth Form. 4.35 4.40 pm Bay House as a Learning Hub Annie Bainbridge, Advanced Skills Teacher, Bay House School and Sixth Form 4.40 4.45 pm Any other business 4.45 pm Close The Priory Community Schools YouTube page is at: http://www.youtube.com/user/Priory2008

friday, 13 march 2009
... LAN1008517 Venue:PRIORY COMMUNITY SCHOOL Queensway, WESTON-SUPER-MARE ...

monday, 23 february 2009
HDG Tea Party IP's Office 15:30. LMGTFY Discovered a good link for the RTFM users out there: let me Google that for you : to send it a query type LMGTFY ?q=your+query after the http://lmgtfy.com/ . tools

friday, 5 september 2008
Start of Term school