World of XorA

Here is the cake Jen made me for my birthday, a very yummy white chocolate and raspberry cake made from lego bricks.

There is an updated and bugfixed version of this script now added to the OE git repository where all updates from now will be done.
Latest Version

At a request from TI developers I have decided to change the license of the script to GPLv2 as its more important to me that people can use the the script than spend their time arguing legal points.

#! /bin/sh
# mkcard.sh v0.3
# (c) Copyright 2009 Graeme Gregory 
# Licensed under terms of GPLv2

DRIVE=$1

dd if=/dev/zero of=$DRIVE bs=1024 count=1024

SIZE=`fdisk -l $DRIVE | grep Disk | awk '{print $5}'`

echo DISK SIZE - $SIZE bytes

CYLINDERS=`echo $SIZE/255/63/512 | bc`

echo CYLINDERS - $CYLINDERS

{
echo ,9,0x0C,*
echo ,,,-
} | sfdisk -D -H 255 -S 63 -C $CYLINDERS $DRIVE

if [ -b ${DRIVE}1 ]; then
	mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n "boot" ${DRIVE}1
else
	if [ -b ${DRIVE}p1 ]; then
		mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n "boot" ${DRIVE}p1
	else
		echo "Cant find boot partition in /dev"
	fi
fi

if [ -b ${DRIVE}2 ]; then
	mke2fs -j -L "rootfs" ${DRIVE}2
else
	if [ -b ${DRIVE}p2 ]; then
		mke2fs -j -L "rootfs" ${DRIVE}p2
	else
		echo "Cant find rootfs partition in /dev"
	fi
fi

Well on Weds I visited the zoo with Jen, haven’t been for ages and there have been a lot of changes and new buildings. Was also the day the were moving Mercedes to new home. Big huge crate and some burly guys reading to pack it. Got to see the penguin parade which is always fun. Zoo did seem to be stuck in some inbetween season, they hadn’t decided to be properly open for summer which meant I had to make do with some really bad burger for lunch

Friday was Gigantor with Jen, I remember liking Gigantor but I must say thats two I’ve been to I’ve not really enjoyed, just can’t get into the music they play! So as I was feeling too hot and it was nice outside we left early and wandered home.

Saturday I spent the day at Unique Beats which was a festival of electronic music in the Roxy Arthouse. I must say I really love the Roxy Arthouse, it’s an amazing venue, an old converted church. Afternoon had companies advertising their software and doing workshops along with some people playing all day. Evening it changed to full on gig with some amazing people doing their music. Saw some really great and unusual sets, almost all of them involving real instruments as well as computers and gadgets. And Frog Pocket is amazing, go see if you ever get the chance. Wore my boots of doom and got lots of compliments For the last set of the day I got to hang around behind the no!input desk watching how they did the visuals which was interesting. Then off to the Brass Monkey for a few pints.

Today I caught tried to catch up on TNA and WWE, 7 hours in total, but still more to watch!

OK RAID cards confuse me with their undocumented errors. Why don’t you just say some idiot set you in JBOD mode so you can’t create Raid Sets. Then I would have hunted through the menus to find the well hidden JBOD setting and disabled it.

Worse this is the error didn’t even produce any sensible google hits either.

My wonderful wife Bobster made me a super dalek cake.

I have been married to my wife Liomari for a year, a month and 20 days now.

It’s about time I let everyone know how much I appreciate her.

She is the most awesome person and I love her beyond anything else in the world.

Thankyou Bob.

Went to see this film last night, was a bit dubious before seeing it as it is a “film of the game” and it had some dubious reviews.

But I must say I loved the film, it was a good re-telling of the story of SH1 with some nice snippets from 2/3 thrown in. They changed the plot to work better in the film in a good way. And the way SH works there are many many stories anyway. I also liked the way they managed to remove all the book/notice reading you do in game by having the story run in two threads.

My favourite stuff though was the special effects, which they had gone old skewl on and resisted just CGIing everything. It was well worth it as the locations and creatures were stunning.

Here is the super lego cake bob made for my birthday.