Sleeping Monkey Speaks

Lack of mobile communication is frustrating

My phone has decided that it doesn’t like chargers, and therefore won’t accept one. So, I have one dead phone, no method of mobile communication, and a useless piece of plastic containing all my contacts. So that means I don’t have anyone’s numbers, so please, please if you read this, can you email me your phone numbers so I can put them into whatever phone replaces this one. Also, sorry if I don’t reply to any texts or voicemails - I don’t have any method to retrieve them at the moment.

On a happier note, Pink Floyd Pulse arrived the other day, it’s a really good album. And at some point I’ll be stealing Dan’s Genesis live CD and either ripping or copying that… for “backup” purposes of course.

On Wednesday, I tagged along to a tutorial/lab that Dan went to last week, focusing on Cisco applications and hardware. It was really, really interesting. We were there from 2 until about 5, using a program called Packet Tracer to simulate a large organisation’s network using Cisco equipment, and we had to design the addressing structure ourselves, so I was more than chuffed when it eventually worked! I even managed to set up some DNS for a webserver sat on an independent subnet!

Spent the weekend just gone at Ineke’s house in Bath. I would go into more detail but she’s blogged about it so there’s no point in both of us doing it, that’d just get boring.

My laptop is now dual booted with the new version of Ubuntu - 7.10. It’s actually very impressive, and I’ve used it an awful lot recently, arguably more than Vista. The new version of the X server overcomes many of the shortcomings of the old version, even enabling dual monitor setups and auto detecting resolutions, etc. The new version of Gnome also comes with some pretty cool (but pretty useless) tweaks and effects.

I wrote a letter to Google about my placement year, we shall see if they reply once I’ve posted it!

That’s all I can think of at the moment.

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