Yet Another Blog

In an attempt to get marks for versioning in our uni coursework I installed CVS and suggested that everybody use Eclipse, a very capable and free(!) IDE for Java.

Since then I’ve grown quite interested in CVS as a whole, and am considering using it for the Blogwise code. Unfortunately I couldn’t instantly find a suitable IDE for PHP with CVS built in. I tried WinCVS but I have had problems with it from day one and it has some odd quirks/defaults.

However, TortoiseCVS is up there in ‘quite cool’ land. When you create a new repository or check out one on your hard disk it recognises this and colours all your files differently within that directory. The files are tinted red if they’re out of sync with the server, then turn a nice green once they’re committed. I’m going to give it a few more days of testing before I start giving it my full thumbs up, but if you’re interested it can be had at http://www.tortoisecvs.org/

A while back I bemoaned the fact that Opera disguises itself as Internet Explorer by default (or at least, does enough to purposefully fool most Javascripts).

Turns out that visiting www.tesco.co.uk today in (undisguised) Opera gave me a message telling me about Tesco Access – a project to let people get to Tesco using alternative methods (Internet TV, phone, etc.). It wouldn’t let me any further without my registration!

Switching to fake IE mode let me straight into their site to do what I wanted to do.

It’s a shame Opera disguises itself by default – I’m sure nieve webmasters would think twice if they saw it in their stats or had a flurry of complaints from pissed off Opera users. Hard to call really. Still, useful Opera has this ability in the first place!

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Something tells me not all of the kinks have been worked out of Opera yet. 🙂

Just testing a script! Please ignore me (or feel free to comment a lot for no reason)

Unsuprisingly the Christmas shop in Southampton appears to have closed down. They must’ve had a really short-sighted business plan….

BBC Three is starting with a bang tonight. It’s about 20 minutes in and Johnny Vaughan has been presenting the evening live. Despite a few cockups it’s been good so far (I know twenty minutes isn’t much, but it’s looking promising). It’s been through a lot of hoops to get where it is and good luck to them. Reassuringly they are required to provide 90% UK programming, and are actively required to avoid repeats (in comparison, I believe that a third of ITV programs last year were repeats….).

The opening shows are ‘simulcast’ (shudder) on BBC Two but from tonight it’ll be on digital TV only. I’m considering getting a Freeview receiver shortly, partly because quite a few programs look appealing. Hopefully the quantity won’t compromise quality, but time will tell…

Incidentally Johnny Vegas is very funny, as ever.

Hey, Yentob, can I have my cheque now please?

So, I went to Portsmouth last night and, in an effort to be at least social for once, decided not to take my car. I was amazed at how expensive public transport is sometimes, and was moved to make a pretty graph:

No wonder people like driving. Although the bus was by far the cheapest option, I had to wait just 30 minutes for it. The buses at around 7pm on a Saturday night are every 40 minutes…..

.NET compilers galore. We have C#, VB.NET. It’s all open source too, hray \o/!

 

If you are using Opera and haven’t noticed the security flaws in the Version 7 release, it’s a good idea to upgrade 😉

For no particular reason this was my greatest achievement of the day:

                                      

Basically it’s the up/down throughput of my router. I wanted to learn how to use SNMP and this seemed a good a use as any 🙂