Work, rest and…more work

Work, rest and…more work

I have finished by Blender series now for Linux Format. It is a bit of a shame really, as it was a really fun series to write, but I am pleased that Blender has had a lot of exposure in the magazine. When the final part is published in January, the series will have...
Make Human

Make Human

You know, I love Blender. It’s wicked, and everyone should use it. I have just bought the new 2.30 manual that is to be released in late december, and I have been playing with a script called Make Human. It is so simple to create effective looking human meshes....
Aching

Aching

Last night we gigged at the Giffard Arms in Wolves. Pretty decent night, if a little quiet – but the main rock night in Wolves was on which clashed. Given the clash, the turnout was better than I expected. 🙂 Well, KDE is all compiled up a working. I got...
Work, rest and…more work

Compiling KDE CVS

Yes, I have not done this for a while. Once upon a time I used to compile this puppy every day and I had pretty much everything from the KDE CVS server compiled and ready on my machine. As I moved away from KDE a bit and went onto other things, I have not been...
Headbanging

Headbanging

Since the age of nine when I first heard the glory that is Iron Maiden, I have headbanged quite a bit. There I could be seen, out with friends, banging my head to the lucent tones of distorted guitars and thudding double bass drums. With great pleasure I can say that...
Wireless madness continues

Wireless madness continues

Right, this is starting to freak me out. My wireless card decided last night to stop working. I can see the card in the PCMCIA services and insmod the driver fine, but in terms of grabbing an IP address…nada. I have no idea why this is doing it. Consequently, I...