Archive for June 2006
Fantastic 
Just a shame I can’t use it until the 3rd of July…
I’ve only recently come across Lightbox JS and wanted to get it working here. There is already a WP lightbox JS WordPress plugin but unfortunatly it uses the first version of Lightbox JS and I wanted to use the more current version. Not only does it look better but I believe it works better than the first version.
I don’t plan on using it with every image, the last image I posted full size and it fitted just fine. I’ll use it when it makes it easier to see an image in more detail. A perfect example is the image that I used in my Backup MX post. A little fuzzy in the actual posting, but the full size image is perfectly clear. To see what I mean click on the image.
The 2.6.17 kernel (released in the past 24 hours) includes a new feature:
X86 “SMP alternatives” (optimizes a single kernel image at runtime according with the available platform)
An artice on LWN.net (http://lwn.net/Articles/164121/) explains what this means. If I understand this correctly it means the kernel can now change itself when it starts, and while running, to cope with different instruction sets in different processors and different hardware changes.
The implications are interesting, no x86, 64, or SMP (etc) kernel versions any more. Just the one version that works over all hardware. This will bring down the work load for those the manage the kernel in the different distributions.
But then again I could be miss understanding the article and talking absolute crap.
I just spotted this on Google Earth:
“Can’t you read mate? This is a one way road!”
It’s a date that even our friends ‘over the pond’ can understand: 6/6/6 
EDIT: It was actually 846 miles, not 746.
That’s the distance from York to the far North of Scotland, a bit of travel, and back.
I’ve out pictures from the trip in my gallery as usuall - http://www.tuxx.org.uk/gallery2/v/n_hw_scotland/
Last Tuesday I drove us up to Edinburgh (watching out for the speed cameras on the A1) where we stayed with Clare, a friend who would be joining us, and her husband Richard. The following morning Dad and I shared the driving until we stopped short of Durness at a place simply called Hope. From there it was a walk into our first bothy; one that I hadn’t been to since 2000.
