James Ogley

Sermon: Philippians 3.17-21 - Citizens of Heaven

James Ogley james at jamesthevicar dot com — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:20:00 +0000

Recorded yesterday at St Paul's. 32 minutes long including reading and response. Available as Ogg Vorbis or MP3:

PDF of accompanying presentation and more information about the Vanity Fair story I mention.

I'm so offended

James Ogley james at jamesthevicar dot com — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:18:00 +0000

Andrew:

I'm just sooooo offended

Announcing the Polish version of Planet SUSE

James Ogley james at jamesthevicar dot com — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:23:00 +0000

In addition to the existing German and Spanish language versions of Planet SUSE, I've added a new Polish version.

If a Polish speaker wants to give me a translation of the sidebar contents, I'd be very grateful.

Wordle

James Ogley james at jamesthevicar dot com — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:21:00 +0000

Wordle. A strange name for a cracking site.

Thanks to Cornelius for the Wordle of Planet SUSE:

Here's one of my site:

Server performance

James Ogley james at jamesthevicar dot com — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:38:00 +0000

People reading Planet SUSE (or indeed my site) over the last few days will have noticed it was responding really slowly. I don't know how long this had been the case with being on retreat but after about 24 hours of debugging and investigation, I've identified and resolved the issue.

Offline

James Ogley james at jamesthevicar dot com — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:01:00 +0000

I'm going on retreat today ahead of my ordination to the priesthood on Saturday which means I'll be offline until then (and may well have a number of emails to catch-up on when I get back).

openSUSE 11.0 installation

James Ogley james at jamesthevicar dot com — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:45:00 +0000

I promised screenshots of the install in progress and here they are, fifty of them - some photos and some normal screenshots of the installation on Amanda's Samsung R60plus (64bit).

See the openSUSE 11.0 installation in progress.

When Amanda acquired the laptop, installing 10.3 on it was not without problems but 11.0 installed beautifully. The only two small issues remaining were the continuing issue of the 64-bit Java plugin not working properly in Firefox. The only solution was to switch Firefox and all plugins to the i586 version. I couldn't work out a way to do this in YaST though so I had to do it in smart. The other issue was the rubbishy onboard Atheros wifi adapter and as-yet equally rubbish ath5k module for it. This is solved by popping blacklist ath5k into /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.

openSUSE 11.0 in the wild

James Ogley james at jamesthevicar dot com — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:35:00 +0000

It's free, our new little beastie is out and about - openSUSE 11.0 has been released.

Get yourself some openSUSE 11.0 goodness:

Download openSUSE 11.0. I prefer the GNOME install, other people go for KDE. Since they're both live CDs, you can try them each out and see which you prefer if you're new to the Linux world.
Once it's installed, get yourself over to openSUSE-Community.org and use the 1-click collection to beef-up your install. Get those multimedia codecs you're going to need to watch DVDs and listen to MP3s, if you have an ATI or NVIDIA graphics card, get the 3D drivers for them.
Enjoy.

Stealing a march

James Ogley james at jamesthevicar dot com — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:21:00 +0000

Around five hours to go until the official launch but...

ogley@riggwelter:/home/install/ISO/openSUSE/11.0> wget -c http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.0/iso/cd/openSUSE-11.0-GNOME-LiveCD-i386.iso

First up will be weasel my semi-sacrificial/semi-backup desktop machine.

Torrents are also available if you're a torrent kind of person.

Another bracelet for Team PokerStars

James Ogley james at jamesthevicar dot com — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:38:00 +0000

This time it's the turn of Dario "Scarf Boy" Minieri to take the gold and the cash. He won the $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Handed event. The relatively easy final table that beckon Minieri as a huge chip leader didn't fully ensue but he won out in the end thanks to a bit of luck and his trademark aggression.

2008 really is proving to be the year of the pros - keep up with the latest WSOP updates.