{"id":641,"date":"2002-12-09T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-09T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2002\/12\/09\/the-weekend\/"},"modified":"2002-12-09T10:45:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-09T10:45:00","slug":"the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2002\/12\/09\/the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"The weekend."},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/head>Well,
\nI’ve not done a great deal over the weekend other than fail to buy anything
\nduring some Christmas shopping, fail to do this year’s Christmas cards and
\nfail to get any MTA (Mail Transport Agent) working on my main server.<\/p>\n

On Saturday I went looking in Toys’R’Us for a little pressie for Christopher,
\nthe son of my friends Rachel & Graham as I’m going to visit them next
\nweekend. I debated getting him a little lego motor so he can power some of
\nhis creations. I also looked at the mini remote control cars, as my Mum wants
\nto know if there’s anything I’d like. (I’d prefer not to get something computery
\nas that’s transient, almost disposable technology these days and it costs
\na bomb too.) I’m not sure about these little cars now as they’re actually
\nIR controlled and not radio controlled. Still, I’m still thinking about them..
\neven though they’re 30 quid each (and to have a race you need at least 2).<\/p>\n

Saturday afternoon I tried out online gaming by downloading and installing
\nthe “Coounter Strike” add-on for Half-Life. It took about 10 minutes or so
\nto download the list of games servers before I could even pick one. Then
\nonce I’d joined a game, after about 10 minutes I found myself being abused
\nverbally with the message “u r lamer” and within a few seconds kicked off
\nthe server. If this is what online gaming is about, it’s not worth the hassle.<\/p>\n

Saturday evening was spent watching the two extra DVDs in the Fellowship
\nof the Ring extended edition. I started playing them at about 7pm.. even
\nafter skipping a couple of the documentries I still didn’t manage to finish
\n’til 12:40am! That was a bit of a marathon.<\/p>\n

Sunday was spent trying to get first exim to play and then sendmail to play
\nat being my mail server software on my server.. both didn’t work.. both didn’t
\nwork in the same way.. Once they dropped priviledges they couldn’t get them
\nback so as to deliver the mail. This suggests something wrong with the setuid
\npart of the operating system?! Oh well.<\/p>\n

So, as you can see, a facinating weekend.
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