Saint Friday’s – holiday villas in the Peloponnese
Saint Friday’s – holiday villas in the Peloponnese
Here’s the website of the villa’s that stayed in in Greece. A really cracking site. Very tranquil, very nice! Set in amongst olive trees (as more or less the entire peninsula.). Sat on the balcony of the villa (Nestor), watching the ever changing sea, with the Mountains in the background is a fine memory.
Why Green Tea Helps to Lose Weight – Uncommon Body
Why Green Tea Helps to Lose Weight – Uncommon Body
Thanks to Raj for pointing this out. I’ve just gone back (in a bit way) to drinking coffee. Since being given a decent espresso machine, and work acquiring a decent coffeee machine. So Green tea is now just drunk in the afternoon. I no longer go through the box of Green Dragon organic green tea every 4 days…..!
How to clean old binary logs
Recently I had a problem with Disc space on my MythTV box. I found the the inary logs for MYSQL were over a gig in size. These are records of all database transactions. They wllo you to recreate the database if a backup is out of date, as you can replay all transactions. Anyway I was able to lose a lot of these, and regain disc space, without affecting safety.
mysql -u root --password mythconverg
Enter password:
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 53 to server version: 4.1.21-log
Type ‘help;’ or ‘\h’ for help. Type ‘\c’ to clear the buffer.
mysql> show master logs;
+——————-+———–+
| Log_name | File_size |
+——————-+———–+
| mythtv-bin.000001 | 79 |
| mythtv-bin.000002 | 79 |
| mythtv-bin.000003 | 79 |
| mythtv-bin.000004 | 50504 |
| mythtv-bin.000005 | 2767417 |
| mythtv-bin.000006 | 42523 |
| mythtv-bin.000007 | 79 |
| mythtv-bin.000008 | 7099399 |
| mythtv-bin.000009 | 60102 |
| mythtv-bin.000010 | 23028247 |
| mythtv-bin.000011 | 13157557 |
| mythtv-bin.000012 | 3300816 |
mysql> purge master logs to ‘mythtv-bin.010′;
ScheduleWorld
This is looking like the “glue” I need to keep my various information using applications (phone, Evolution, Outlook, MightyPhone etc…), together!!
Human species ‘may split in two’
BBC NEWS | UK | Human species ‘may split in two’
Going to the Regal, a Wetherspoons pub in Cambridge, you get the impression that the evulutionary expert is wrong with the 100,000 years estimate!
Configuring Boot Behavior for Alpha Systems
Configuring Boot Behavior for Alpha Systems
Whilst playing with my Alpha 600a workstation (Cheers Andres!), I’ve been struggling to find out how to automate booting from the bios (well the alpha version of a bios!).
Well
Show bootdef_dev
will show you the default boot device.
set bootdef_dev
will set it. In my case this is a SCSI device on ID3. so
set bootdef_dev dkc
running ,code>boot now boots from that device. Rather than having to run boot dkc
Now all I just need to do is find out how to make it boot without prompting…!!!
EDIT… Aha!!! when a default boot device is set, it will be booted automatically!! Cool!
Mark Thomas on demonstrating near the Houses of Parliament
Mark Thomas is that quite unique combination (unfortunately too unique) of being very, very funny and pretty moralisticaly correct. Unlike a lot of the “right on” crows of the late 80’s alternative crew he is consistent to his own politics (As Alexei), and keeps being a thorn in the side of the establishment. Here he shows just how stupid the law restricting demonstrations near the Houses of Parliment is, by following the paperwork trail correctly, and applying to do 21 demo’s in a single day. Hilarious!
Useful links:
Veil teacher ’should be sacked’
BBC NEWS | England | Bradford | Veil teacher ’should be sacked’
This is quite a tricky one. A primary school teacher refuses to remove her full face veil (Burka?) whilst teaching mixed sex classes.
Personally I think she should be sacked for breach of contract. She attended the interview without the veil (male or female interviewer?), therefore intending to wear this during her employment is wrong.
Also my opinion is that hiding a women’s face due to some religious writing is an abomination. However, restricting the wearing of this does impinge on this women’s rights.
In this situation the children’s rights should be paramount, and if there is any evidence that the children suffer because of reduced communication (as there appears to be) then the veil should be removed. It also promotes the wearing of the veil to the impressionable children. Teaching children overly political messages is wrong, and so is promoting religious views (in my opinion even moderate religious views should be restricted).
It is a much more complicated matter than the recent one of BA telling a female employee to hide her cross. Although there is no issue of sexual discrimination in the wearing of the cross, it is an overtly religious symbol and its display should be able to be regulated by a person’s employer. Again though this affects the wearer’s human rights.
Tricky one. How do you combine a strong belief in freedom of speech with a strong dislike of indoctrination and propaganda? Where is the line drawn? Personally this is easy to judge, but how do you determine the line in law?
best tomatoes in the world
Just eaten a plate of the tastiest tomatoes i have ever had. gorgeous! In a mountain hut on the mani peninsula near Sparti
holiday in Greece
Finally on holiday. Bloody weather is great too. I sit writing this facimg =
a gorgeous blue sea with snow capped peaks facing me across the straits. =
Very relaxing. I have almost forgotten what i do for a living. Getting used =
to the m600i’s leyboard too. Well almost.
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