http://alledora.co.uk ...in which occasional posts describe occasionally boring things Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:21:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since Foresight’s X server started using EXA for acceleration by default with the intel driver, various bits of rendering on the desktop have been horribly slow. Fortunately it’s still possible to switch back to XAA, which at least on my i915 is faster. Just stick Option “AccelMethod” “xaa” In the driver ... http://alledora.co.uk/wordpress/archives/2008/06/25/360 Yes, Jonathan Coulton in London! His first time performing ‘over here’ and yes, he did sing Over There — he sang it first, after saying he thought he should get it out of the way and then not being able to start because he was trying not to laugh. The atmosphere ... http://alledora.co.uk/wordpress/archives/2008/03/22/359 I’ve moved. If you need updated contact details (address and landline have changed, everything else remains the same), get in touch and I’ll give them to you. Also, if you’re around and at a loose end, come over for dinner. I’ve got a dining table and four chairs, but you might ... http://alledora.co.uk/wordpress/archives/2008/02/24/358 Some people might think this is a post about being nice to redheads. It isn’t, although I suppose I could write something about the ridiculousness of that particular much-perpetuated image. No, this is about drink! Non-alcoholic, before you get too excited. It’s quite simple really. It goes like this: take a decently-sized piece ... http://alledora.co.uk/wordpress/archives/2008/01/01/357 Okay so maybe not three steps. I got Dasher linking - hurrah! It turns out there was all sorts of fudging in the configure script to get it to work on the original Maemo for the Nokia 770, which is now unnecessary on OS2008. Hurrah for SDK improvements, but boo ... http://alledora.co.uk/wordpress/archives/2007/12/15/356 After literally half an hour of further effort, I managed to get Dasher to link when built against the Maemo Chinook SDK. Hurrah! Okay so it took a manual edit to the Makefiles. I think I’m going to have to consult somebody who knows this whole autoconf/automake business a bit better ... http://alledora.co.uk/wordpress/archives/2007/12/13/355 I’ve fallen way behind with my NaNoWriMo novel, but last night I decided that I really couldn’t give up, and calculated that I needed to write approximately 2.2k a day until the end of the month to finish. That didn’t sound too difficult, so I started writing and next thing ... http://alledora.co.uk/wordpress/archives/2007/11/15/354 Current word count: 12,527. I’m pleased, but I think I’m going to have a problem writing much more this week. I’ve got musical things here there and everywhere and a performance on Friday evening about which I’m panicking just a little bit and need to put in a fair amount of ... http://alledora.co.uk/wordpress/archives/2007/11/06/353 Yesterday I achieved seven thousand words during the meet. It’s a nice place to be after three days. I gave myself the evening off, although that was largely because I had a splitting headache for some reason. I also bought myself a nice shiny new vacuum cleaner, which has so far ... http://alledora.co.uk/wordpress/archives/2007/11/04/352 National Novel Writing Month 2007 is underway. As of this morning I’m on 1,711 words. My novel is loaded onto my N800 for writing during my lunch break at work, and things are generally going well. However, in that small number of words I’ve already managed to introduce a new main ... http://alledora.co.uk/wordpress/archives/2007/11/01/351