In bed with the devil

08 Sep 2010 Inspired by the recent events of some ex NP MP's siding with the ALP, I too have been inspired to move from my Opensolaris (RIP) desktop to Ubuntu.I've never been a huge fan of packaging systems as no matter which you use each has it's own failings and misgiving. If there is one thing worse than... Read more...

Ergfit Race 2

31 Aug 2010 Last weekend saw the running of Race 2 of the Ergfit indoor Regatta. Yours truly tiped in with a PB time of 1:33.7 in the 500m event, .9 second quicker than race one. Aiming for a 1:32 so some work still to be done. Read more...

Daemon gear

09 Apr 2010 Moving right along in the continued migration to transmission, its in and running in deamon mode on the command line, flexget is in and tested. Just need to add flexget to cron and make sure transmission-deamon starts at system bootup. Ok SMF script needed, being an inherently lazy unix guy , ... Read more...

Egg head

08 Apr 2010 Ok I'm a total Python newbie. I need to install flexget to use with my new transmission setup, it's a python based app and comes as an .egg file. Seems the best way to install these is with something call easy_install.pkg search -l easy_installShows easy_install is part of the python setup tools... Read more...

Changing Torrent

08 Apr 2010 I'm going to be offloading my torrents to my soon to be new headless file server so changes are needed. I've been using vuze since long before it was vuze, and have a nice comfortable setup. I guess my requirements have changed a little, I don't need fancy features now offered, I won't have the ... Read more...