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Random purchase of the day was a Tadpole SPARCbook S1.

Source: Tadpole SPARCbook S1 auction photo.

Today I had a rather lazy day looking over tax returns and contemplating stuff. Tom was going to be visiting however has changed his plans so I had a much more laid back day. sladen sent me a link to the Tadpole SPARCbook S1 auction and er, it absolutely positively had to be mine. I have wanted one of these for quite some time and now I will have one.

Muwhahahahaha! .

[ Mozilla Firebird crashed half way through writing this the first time. ] Thanks to Bill Joy for writing vi and the inspiration that gave to write other editors such as vim which is being used here for this rewrite!

The Linux kernel development that I have been doing has made a lot of progress and I will post a link to some patches once these become official. Suffice it to say I am happy with the amount I am learning and gaining from the work that I am doing with hardware and Linux kernel development.

I went to Telehouse last week to meet sladen and to fix the serial console problem with dmesg.printk.net. Unfortunately I was delayed but I did buy pizza for us afterwards! I am back in TFM4 tomorrow to perform a software upgrade which necessitates that I am onsite. I met Chris last week too and went to Wagamama for Noodles. I hope he graces me with another visit at Christmas or whenever he returns!

I was in Winchester last weekend to listen to my cousin and his band “The Taming Of The Shrew” performing as a support act to “The Trade” at the John Stripe Theatre. They were pretty damn good with Tom being great on vocals and the other band members too – especially Sam on guitar. I need to talk to them again about websites and other such random stuff to see if I can help out somewhere. Also met gran and my aunt Anne for lunch. Unsurprisingly we went to Pizza Hut and then headed down to the Water gardens for a walk which was very pleasant. Winchester changes every time I am there.

Last weekend I was at the OxLUG meeting which was in the Lamb and Flag since there was no talk planned. We discussed SCO and various obvious stuff, then got on to talking about Windows worms and the design of various Operating Systems. I discussed low latency networking with a guy who runs some of the stuff in what used to be and might still be Oxford Parallel including Myrinet.

Tonight I am planning for some stuff in central London tomorrow and visiting dmesg to perform patching. I also am considering going to Birmingham over the weekend and the possibility of also going to Nottingham or Manchester with a chance that there will be time to fit in a trip to Poole on Sunday.

Jon.

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