Sun, 26 Mar 2006

Religious tolerance - UK vs Afghanistan

Interesting to compare the struggle of Shabina Begum in the UK with Abdur Rahman in Afghanistan.. maybe they should trade places and they both will be happy?

Meanwhile, in the US it seems those loving gentle Xtians have declared open season on any Atheists who dare stick to their opinions.

Posted at: 14:56 | category: /rants/religion | # | 0 comments

Fairlight CMI trivia

Just an interesting link to comments and trivia about a Fairlight Sampler for sale on ebay.

Interesting the designer also made the kit synth ETI 4600

Posted at: 14:32 | category: /bleeps | # | 0 comments

Open Source Linux Driver for Traverse Pulsar ADSL card

I have been a very satisfied user of Traverse Technology's Pulsar PCI ADSL card for quite some time now. very stable and reliable. The one thing is that getting the drivers up and running needs a bit of technical knowledge.

Recently I have been using the OpenADSL drivers for this card, which are now absolutely rock solid, just follow the Debian howto in the docs and away you go, if you are using Debian Linux. Kudos to Guy and all the developers working on this project.

Just upgraded to the Linux 2.6.15 kernel in Debian/Testing, which needs the CVS version of the driver as it is compiled with gcc 4, but following the hints on the mailing list and I got it all running.

Posted at: 14:20 | category: /nerdy | # | 0 comments

end of the mess

Well the cheque finally arrived, 14 days late. Strangely enough it was sent by "express post", when EasyStreet insisted to me on the phone they had sent it normal post, and they dont send cheques any other way? Sounds like the left hand doesn't know what the right had is doing there. The "Express Post" even has a tracking number on it that can be used to trace it's course through the postal system.. completely useless of to anybody when nobody knows this.

The picture is an error I got just then when logging in to see whats up with their online banking.. kind of sums it all up really.

Posted at: 13:34 | category: /rants/easystreet | # | 0 comments