Yes, we're now a blog

Website content hasn't changed and if - like me - you've bookmarked the news.php page you'll not be seeing this blog anyway.  For the forseeable, this Blog will be the main hub of your k23-related entertainment.  There's not much going on up on the surface at the moment but we're whipping up a storm underneath - you'll see...

Restore button greyed/grayed out in Time Machine?

Just check that you've clicked on one or more files/folders first.  I didn't think to do this (seems stupid in hindsight) and felt proper silly when I realised...

Moving your iTunes library?

Thought it would be easy - especially on the good ole mac-e-an-tosh...

Nope.

Was sitting watching 67GB of data restore itself at a coal-powered pace from Time Machine when I discovered this guide.  Followed the instructions and bingo - ratings, movies/tv shows, first-track-of-each-album - all back where they should be - on my external 1TB drive.  Bliss...

Snarl R2.0 Released

Snarl 2.0 is now available for general download from the brand new Snarl 2.0 site at www.fullphat.net. A huge thank you goes out to the various testers, bug reporters and question askers. An even bigger thank you goes out to Sven for producing hundreds of revisions of the website until I was happy with it! Go grab it, then spread the word. Don't forget that the Snarl forums are now hosted at the Snarl SourceForge project.

It's on its way...

Snarl R2.0 is very nearly ready!

Right now we are just putting the finishing touches to the brand new website at www.fullphat.net but if you have a Search or Forage around you might just find the R2.0 release yourself...

Happy hunting! :)

Here's the plan...

www.k23productions.com was taken down again due to an attempted DOS attack on the webserver.  Consequently, I'm now going to be concentrating more on utilising a distributed environment for the services currently provided by the main site.

From this point forward I plan to post all news to this blog so please bookmark this blog for future reference.

Linux (again, again...)

Downloaded the Fedora 9 Beta over the weekend in all its 3.7GB worth of DVD ISO loveliness. Thought twice about it but then saw the "Fedora 9 released in 25 days" (or whatever it said) banner and thought "well, if they're only 25 days away it must be pretty good".

Nope.

Basically, it wouldn't install. The first few times I tried to configure it to UK settings (clock, keyboard, etc.) but eventually gave up and let it run through on defaults. Every time I tried to manually partition my disks the installer would through an exception.

Eventually I did get it to install fully by simply letting it run through using the default options. Great - at least I could configure it all post-installation.

Nope.

Grub couldn't see my installation. Now, bearing in mind I installed it on dedicated hardware (no VM nonsense here) I would have thought it would have flown through. Bizarrely, after a quick Google around, it seemed the issue was with my SATA drives.

Surely Fedora knows about SATA drives by now? They're not that new are they?

Anyway, gave up on it (I don't have much time/patience these days) and downloaded Fedora 8 instead. This installed a treat, until it rebooted and wanted to take me through the post-install configuration.

Then the keyboard and mouse (both PS/2) gave up responding.

Amazing.

Another Google and a quick "reset to safe defaults" in the BIOS and the mouse and keyboard sprang back to life but it was too late, I was bored by then so I powered the machine down and shoved it back in the spare room where it's in the queue of things-to-go-on-eBay.

What utter nonsense. I've always been a fan of Linux but I think I'm more a fan of the thought of Linux rather than the product itself. I'll probably have a go at installing FC8 and FC9 into VMs at some point but it's down the priority list now.

Hello World!

Just a holding post really. Last night our hosting provider took www.k23productions.com offline as it was affecting the stability of both the Apache and MySql servers that host it. Access was restored within 3 hours but - given that I can't control who and how my site is accessed from the www - I'm thinking a restructuring is possibly in order.

I finally managed to retrieve my Blog account information and have created this new blog primarily for k23 productions news. It's not set in stone yet but it's likely I'll move all downloads onto the relevant areas of sourceforge, use Blogs for news and updates and retain the old site purely for hosting the forum. If nothing, it should mean I can reduce my bandwidth/disk space requirements.

In fact, if you're reading this, that's probably what's already happened... :)