Brett's Blog http://www.royles.co.uk/blog The Musings of a Techy Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:25:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Day 2 – 2.6 Miles http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=97 http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=97#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:24:53 +0000 Brett http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=97 Yay I managed to do 2.6 miles via a different route today… lets see what tomorrow brings

Time for a nice cup of Assam Tea

]]> http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=97 0 Day 1 http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=94 http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=94#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:16:32 +0000 Brett http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=94 As part of my drive to loose weight I am going to be going on walks.. hopefully every day

Well just done my first walk.. for a total of  2.4miles.

Time for a nice cup of lady gray tea….

]]> http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=94 0 New test site http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=90 http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=90#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:31:02 +0000 Brett http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=90 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)

]]> http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=90 0 Wow and Linux http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=88 http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=88#comments Sat, 20 Aug 2011 13:31:10 +0000 Brett http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=88 [...]]]> 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?

]]> http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=88 2 Internet via Ask4 http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=86 http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=86#comments Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:14:05 +0000 Brett http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=86 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

]]> http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=86 1 uname -a http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=81 http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=81#comments Sat, 18 Jun 2011 19:09:58 +0000 Brett http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=81 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 :D

]]> http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=81 0 Failbook, Skype and Gnome 3 http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=79 http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=79#comments Tue, 10 May 2011 20:52:14 +0000 Brett http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=79 [...]]]> 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 ;)

]]> http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=79 0 Gentoo Update and Other News http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=77 http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=77#comments Fri, 06 May 2011 19:21:53 +0000 Brett http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=77 [...]]]> 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.

]]> http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=77 0 Gnome 3 http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=73 http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=73#comments Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:57:16 +0000 Brett http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=73 [...]]]> 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

]]> http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=73 0 My Desktop http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=74 http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=74#comments Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:25:08 +0000 Brett http://www.royles.co.uk/blog/?p=74 Just for the people who where wondering how my desktop looked these days…..

 

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