Well I have decided to install a test site on www.royles.co (yep .co) this is currently sat on my server box at home so it might be a little slow at times
New services on royles.co : Zabbix , Mantis
Webmail is coming soon! (Honest)
Dec 082011
Aug 202011
Ok,
My pc is currently dual booting with a gentoo install and a windows 7 install for gaming
However I wish to move to a pure gentoo (GNU/Linux) environment
Does any one have any suggestions?
I can only see these options
A) Don’t
B) Stop playing WoW
C) Stop raiding in WoW
The reasoning for this is that WoW’s performance under wine is not good enough for raiding.
Does any one have any tips for getting WoW to work better in Gentoo?
Jun 242011
I have moved my internet connection away from Sky and joined the Digital Region Network via ask4. Could not have asked for a better experience in all parts of the signup process.
And here is a speed test result
Jun 182011
Linux arkari 2.6.39-gentoo-r1 #5 SMP Fri Jun 17 23:53:54 BST 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux 
May 102011
Well, after looking over the changes made to Gnome3 shortly before release, it looked like they have sorted out the dual screen bugs that put me off it at the start, so yep I added the gnome overlay unmasked a couple of USE flags and 215 packages… and emerge –newuse -avuD @world and now I am running gnome 3, and I will be honest.. I LOVE IT! hopfully a screenshot or 2 will be up soon.
Looks like failbook have done it again so time to totally delete my account from there just twitter for me 
(Link here)
Skype is now owned by…. Microsoft for $8 Billion! ouch thats a lot of loose change, for me I have ran emerge -C skype as I don’t want it on my machine anymore. I will take a look at enigma or another app for my voip needs.
New project is to learn how to use emacs 
May 062011
As you can gather from my previous post I am using Gentoo again, not sure why I can’t seem to get along with *buntu or *deb based distros, its not that I don’t understand or know how to use them. I just feel happier with Gentoo and the way it does the configuration of packages, and the fact I can trim down to just what I need installed.
I am however back on Gnome 2.32.1 as Gnome 3 did not work for me!
After migrating my data, my server is back on Ubuntu Server (don’t ask) with working NFS mount to my pc with my distfiles now network shared.
I am doing my best not to have any Microsoft Windows operating systems on my home network, and just base my entire system on a free stack, however I am not against the use of propriety systems
One good piece of software I have found is called Back in Time. Its almost a clone of apple time machine, using rsync and cron jobs.
Work is getting extremely busy now Chris has left to go and work for Civica, I have had to step up to become to team leader, a role I am finding challenging and rewarding.
Thats a quick update on where I am at the moment.
Mar 272011
Well after a bit of bashing and pleading with portage, I have managed to get the gnome layman overlay working with gnome 3 and Gnome shell… its erm different..;)
The fact that there is no minimize button takes a bit of getting used to but it seems quite nice and seems to be moving in the right direction
Screenshots to come soon
Mar 132011
Just for the people who where wondering how my desktop looked these days…..
Mar 122011
Sorry its been a while since I posted on here.
Things have been really busy for me both at work with the Civica migration and personally I have moved house again!
The Civica migration is going quite well, some parts of it are more challenging than other parts , e.g. finding what software packages we need, where the disks and licenses are for the mentioned packages…..
Yep I said moving house again, you know me, I can’t stay still… but on the positive side I will try to be able to update the blog more often now, going to aim for a post a week!
Finally managed to finish the content for www.royles.co.uk for the Sudoku app, got a QR code generated (and figured out how to automate the generation of them!)
I have put in place the framework for the rest of the apps, work is going well on Sudoku to finish it, it should be in the Market within a week.
I have put down first plans for App2 (name to be released soon!) if all goes well App2 will be my first paid for app in the market, and might be released for both the Android and iPhone platforms, depending on development time. Current aim is to have it ready for version 1 release towards the end of April.
On my home network / computing front I have moved back to Ubuntu as Gentoo was taking more time to maintain that I was happy with (could have been me using ~amd64 tho). I did try to use Debian but for some reason I did not get on with the way it worked. Yes I know it is the base for Ubuntu it just did not work for me.
There we are a quick update, hopefully there should be a update soon announcing the release of version Android Sudoku V2
Jan 242011
For some crazy mad reason I got pursuaded to re-activate my facebook account, however after hearing all the horror stories at work I have decided again to close the account.
So here is take two….
Facebook you are the weakest link………….. goodbye!