Sunrise from Our Place – 30/07/2009, originally uploaded by Dale Nunns.
As I came out of our place on the way to work this morning I caught this view out the corner of my eye… I think seeing views like this is the only good thing about getting up early.
Sunrise from Our Place – 30/07/2009, originally uploaded by Dale Nunns.
As I came out of our place on the way to work this morning I caught this view out the corner of my eye… I think seeing views like this is the only good thing about getting up early.
If you haven’t noticed yet… you can go look at our Wedding Site and you’ll see a few updates, we now have some nice buttons to click on and I’ve uploaded Our Story of how we met…
When I get a chance I want to write up an article on tweaking wordpress theme’s and how I put together the Wedding pages look.
Home Office 21/07/2009, originally uploaded by Dale Nunns.
The office ADSL line died yesterday morning and so far Telkom have been un-able to fix it.
So I’ve been working from home for yesterday and today. The photo is what my desk looks like towards the end of the day. The 2x 19″ monitors are hooked up to my Linux machine, the LG laptop is my normal laptop I do all my work on, running Windows Vista. The little Asus Eeepc is acting as the wireless link between my upstairs computer and our ADSL router downstairs (haven’t cabled yet or gotten round to getting my machine a wifi card.) I’m using Synergy between all the machines so I can use the one Microsoft Mouse & Keyboard between all the computers.
Also in the picture is my Samsung Scanner/Fax a couple of boxes stacked on top of it (not sure why), cup of tea, cell phone and couple of lamps and a few odds and ends.
The arrangement is rather nice, only problem is that I’m sitting on a sleeper couch we have in the room which is a little too low and there isn’t enough space to stick a normal chair in, so I have to take frequent breaks to give my a back a bit of a rest and stretch my legs and the rest of my body.
If you’ve never heard of Synergy its a pretty awesome application. Basically it allows multiple computers to share one set of Keyboard, Mouse and Clipboard. It’s cross platform so it works very nicely if you’re running a mixed environment.
I set it up today at home (had to work from home as our office ADSL went down.) between my desktop PC running Ubuntu Linux and my laptop running Windows Vista. You install the Synergy app on the various PC’s that you want to be clients, in my case thats my laptop, you then setup a machine as your “server” and point the clients to the server. On the Server machine you decide in which direction the various clients are and then hook everything up.
At the moment I have it if I move my mouse of the left hand side of my linux machine the cursor continues moving across onto my laptop screen and now my laptop has focus, so I can type and work on it using my desktop keyboard and mouse. I? can even copy something and then move right again onto my linux machine and paste it.
The laptops keyboard and touchpad continues working, but its much better than having another keyboard and mouse cluttering up the desk.
If you do plan on trying it out I would suggest you get QuickSynergy for your Linux/MacOSX machines as it makes configuring things much easier.
Ant 20/07/2009, originally uploaded by Dale Nunns.
The ant that was living in my laptop Keyboard. And no I didn’t kill it, left it to run free across my desk.
(My Nokia sucks at taking photos of small things that move fast.)
I was playing around with a crazy idea I had (more on that another day) and needed to be able to access MS SQL from Python, a quick search and I found this project, pymssql
It works great, I’ve only tested it on Windows (Vista) so far but it says it’ll work on Linux too which is pretty cool.
Oh and BTW Netbeans with Python Support is awesome.
13/07/2009, originally uploaded by Dale Nunns.
Rainbow after the storm, or perhaps that should be between storms.
13/07/2009, originally uploaded by Dale Nunns.
Rainbow after the storm, or perhaps between storms not sure.
Was knocking together a little script tonight that downloads a few pages that I would like to read in the morning and then email them to me. I had a problem though finding a simple way to send an email from the command line in a script.
Then I came across this article which shows you howto do it using a program called ssmtp, works brilliantly.