film star

filmed on one of the coldest days of the year, and first shown on one of the hottest...

me & dinah met up with spski & Kwo, plus a host of others but we were the film makers, for last night's straight8 screening at the curzon mayfair...

Kwo's direction, spski's acting and comic planning, dinah's staring and my bearing...

(old friend tracey said i gave good bear)

it was the 1st time any of us had seen it, as is the nature of that competition, and it was great...

we weren't the best thing that was shown last night, but we were fabulous x

in other news my old windows XP operating system is out of the cupboard and dusted off, primarily because dinah's internet wasn't working and it was one of the things i tried to make it work again, but since it's been back it's turned out to be a much better system for the downloading that i do... (the wire series 4 is in my life now)... also i can use the cubase on it to try out the DML stuff i've been wondering about, this afternoon i was connected to P but not musically, we'll get there...

so ubuntu is taking a back seat for a moment, i'm also considering buying a router, take the weight off ubuntu into a way that i understand... although we're still in the summer drought so it would have to be cheap...

i've also got blender working on my new computer, also XP, i have big plans for my logo, big learning curve...

and of course the gig is on this friday, do come if you're in town, a string section, a great venue, a killer band, great songs...

what else is there?

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ubuntu working

so finally, i think i've cracked it, thanks to this piece of advice, i'm currently in the new computer (still XP) which is getting internet from the old computer running ubuntu...

windows is a little stupid sometimes, after i had made it work, but before i'd rebooted my new computer (which is what makes it work here) my googlemail notifier in my new computer worked... but firefox didn't...

anyway it all works now, just have to sort out the soundcard in ubuntu, then once i can capture video like i can in vegas (which is one of the more important functions of the old computer - apart from networking)... maybe i'll kiss XP goodbye on that computer...

but how sad that sounds... it will make me much happier to say... i'm kissing goodbye to XP altogether... but for now cubase & vegas in XP rule my life...

in other news a lovely ex-student of mine had a look at the 100th and was surprised to see john sinclair there, the same weekend that he met john, (being today)... i'm not sure what the connection is but these people in my past life who turn up in strange places in my current life... it's great...

the wire continues to be great, i've got 5 series to get through in all and i just hope they're all as good as this 1st one...

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reading in bed

waking up slowly, being brought tea by one's lover, reaching for the book that you've almost finished, lying in bed in that languor finishing that book...

one of life's pleasures...

i dropped off cities of the red night to john who is in the bunker and now i'm home preparing to meet the boys (M&O) for some song writing x

PS - writing this from ubuntu - although no solution just yet

the wire

it's all about american tv sometimes...

there's an actor in the 1st series of the wire who i think is the same actor who played a poetic sniper on a roof in the 1st series of kill point that i watched recently...

the wire is the better of the two programs... both of which were given to me by virgin media, although they only gave me the 1st episode of the wire, i'm watching the rest through other means...

it's really good... HBO know what they're up to...

i'm also nearing the end of cities of the red night that i'm reading before lending to john sinclair... i was hoping to finish it on the train home from work tonight but it's not quite all done yet... great writing...

oh and ubuntu, last night in amongst many attempts i got the system to work, internet sharing on our little network...

this morning it didn't work... have to work out what it was that i did right... once it's working i can spend a bit more time in ubuntu, for now, every minute i'm on it dinah can't have the internet and that's no good, but once that side works i can be in it all i like...

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wroking & notwroking

my one day of paid work this week today, i was pretty stupid, ignoring (or rather just not seeing) all manner of written instructions:

eg - exact change only

lovely to see the HWLC folk, DS & GM in particular, they of obscure 2ndlife work habits...

and i came home to my sweeet boobelah and this thorny ubuntu internet sharing issue...

which i'm close to solving - or at least that's what i'm telling myself...

definitely a step or two forwards...

the mists clearing somewhat...

but still a few more steps to go and the mist still there, just thinner x

dual boot

ok so she's in... quite a bit of configuring before it's all marvellous and it might just be a little too much for me but i'm splitting it into manageable tasks, like "how to configure my sound card to get sound", "how to configure the DHCPD"...

yes indeed ubuntu is what i'm talking about and although i'll still be hanging onto microsoft's coattails for a little while yet, (until ubuntu convince me they've got opensource versions as good as cubase or vegas - sound and video)... this whole experiment has something of the future about it...

my computing has been a few years behind the times for many years now... it wasn't until 3 years ago that i abandoned windows98... that's 7 years behind... XP had been around for a long time before i started wearing it... both my computers are several years old... the one now sporting a dualboot ubuntu/XP being the older, maybe 5-10 years old?

but this ubuntu 8.04 is the most up-to-date fella out there... and while with windows you wouldn't want to touch the most recent releases (vista? i don't think so) with opensource it all seems that much safer...

anyway, going to cycle over to the dawn project with J in a little while & i want to have a crack at the DHCPD...

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ubuntu (geek alert)

imagine if you will...

you have a system set up around microsoft that is irritating, far from perfect, but it works, and it was quite easy to set up...

the internet arrives in an XP machine, which acts as an internet gateway, allowing the other computers (an XP machine & a mac) access to the internet...

they are also all networked together in a way that mostly works but is a bit patchy...

the XP machine at the centre of it all is getting sluggish and you're tempted to try installing linux on it... you find a version of linux called ubuntu...

linux (ubuntu) is not as straight forward as XP, although without a doubt better... particularly at networking so they say...

but you don't know how to configure ubuntu so that it all works, and to try it you have to stop the internet from the other 2 machines until you've got it going...

so it's forums for me i'm afraid... and i'm sorry about the geekiness of it i just wanted to get it clear in my head what i'm trying to do...

my frequency of blog posts being most erratic these days, as little as 2 a week and then 3 in 1 day...

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back in

less than 24 hours this time, and i learnt that the cd drive on my new computer is a sack of sh*t...

i'd suspected this for awhile but there's nothing like really needing a piece of hardware to do something quite basic for you & finding out there & then that it can't do it...

wonderful.. so i got to go over to floopy's and he burnt me the necessary bootable cd's... i was also the victim of a scam... before i knew my cd drive was below par i tried a solution i found on the internet... it didn't work (because of the cd drive)... then found another solution that cost me £4.05 and my phone number (i know, i probably could have avoided that) and not only did i almost immediately get a porn website texting me... but when i finally tried it as a solution it was exactly the same as the solution i'd tried earlier... they took the solution this nice man was giving away free and charged me £4.05 for it...

scum x

anyway i'm in and my brain has expanded that tiny amount needed to accommodate the information that i shouldn't just delete everything on a drive, certain things are necessary...

ok... now for ubuntu...

techy doom

uh oh... i'm in trouble... something's come along and it's burst my bubble...

i'm in the process of trying out linux (in particular ubuntu) on my old computer and so far... i failed to do the ubuntu thing properly... and i messed up xp so i can't get back in...

this has happened before (probably documented in this here blog) and lo & behold it was the move from windows 98 to xp that brought it on that time...

so being as i have 2 computers these days surely it should be a whole lot easier...?

ho hum x