After installing the PiMAME image I updated to the latest OS patches and found that AdvMAME was unstable so I'm re-compiling it. I found this link that tells me I need to use gcc 4.7 instead of the default 4.6 on the current build. In essence

export CC=gcc-4.7
export GCC=g++-4.7

With the pi cranked up to 1000MHz, the compile took

real 311m13.827s
user 239m44.460s
sys 8m51.360s

Been meaning to get garan.org back up and running for a little while. The logs blew the database limits so the ISP dropped the database. Took a little bit of effort to get it back but I took the opportunity to upgrade the site to the latest major release of Drupal. That took a bit of time partly because I'm out of practice and partly because I didn't have SSH access to my server. All sorted now though.

My blog is still here! With the upturn in Facebook and Twitter over the last 12 months I've not posted much as I guess l've become a bit of a FB'aholic and am fascinated by it from a professional point of view. The introduction of AJAX powered chat in a browser has seen a lot of my friends contacting me via FB chat and the private message system provides more personal messages than I get through email. From a cynical standpoint, FB is potentially very sinister as they've got too big but the same could have been said about Google a few years ago but their star has waned slightly.

I wanted to take a screen shot of part of a website that I'm building at the moment. Googled around for 'Vista screenshot' and discovered the Vista Snipping Tool. Type snipping tool into the Command Bar on the Start Menu and away you go. The only thing I don't seem to be able to grab is the Command Bar on the Start Menu. Ha ha ha.

I've been doing this unix lark for a pretty long time now but I'm never afraid to learn something new. Today's lesson.. the 'yes' command.

Part of the gnu coreutils, it echos a 'y' into your script (you can alter the string to a different character or a word too). So you want to install 500 packages and it's asking you to say yes to them all? Try something like this:
yes | pkgadd -d /cdrom/Solaris_10/Product `cat pkg_list`

I'm always amazed at the nests of cables that are created in switch rooms. People start off with the best intentions in the world but eventually it ends up in a big tangle. I've had to bend tempered glass cabinet doors to get them closed in the past. Came across this example that made me go 'wow':

<img width="375" alt="Yellow cable nest" src="/images/yellow_wall.jpg" />

This is how you do it properly:

<img width="375" alt="Blue cable art" src="/images/blue_cabling.jpg" />