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Today, I'm walking about like an old man, the backs of both of my knees ache, yesterday I was off work cos of this, as yesterday morning, I got shooting pains up the backs of both my legs, and couldn't even stand up straight til about 10pm last night. Also got a bit of a twinge in the same manner in one leg on saturday night while in the tent. This has happened before, but it's been a very long time, last time I went to see the doc about it, he told me to take a few days off work, and gave me ibuprofen, but now that it's come back again, and with a vengance, going for both legs at once (first time it's done that) I'm gonna have to go see 'im again.

In other news, the DVLA (equivalent of the DMV) are on strike, which is an arse, cos I can't get motorcycle theory test booked so I can start planning for the practical

Le Weekend

Went to Kinnagoe bay for the weekend, camped, bloody cold at night, absolutely excellent during the day, and wonderful weather. GPS was used while getting there, so apart from the dirt track that said "not suitable for cars" (which we had to turn around and go back on) other people will be able to find it, if I can get an app to actually import the track from the GPS and put it on a map anyway. Here's the place

okay, so who wants to lend me some cash, and figure out how I can get this from aberdeen to here, before passing my test, cos the dvla are on strike again so there's no hope of me managing to get a test date

new toys

new toys today, new lens for the camera (well, it'd go on more than one, but it's aimed at digital, doesn't quite work right on the film eos), 18-50mm so can get what I should get with 28 normally ... 28mm on my camera as it stands now looks like this (excuse the messy desk)

18 on it (same messy desk) looks like this

Also, new camera/laptop bag, one of these, warning link may not be entirely safe if you're at work, but it is censored and doesn't really show anything, crumpler just have this nice thing of showing the size of their bags by showing a naked 5'8 female wearing them :)

PearPC

Dunno how many people have noticed this around, but PearPC came out a few days ago, this lets you emulate a Power PC on intel hardware, under linux, and windows, I spent a few days getting this all going properly, so I'll share my experiences with it here, as people will more than likely fine it useful how to get it going.

1: Get PearPC, Mac OS X and bximage from the bochs dist to make your HD image (if you're using linux, if you're using windows, grab one of the bzipped images from pearpc's site and extract with winrar)

2: create your image, 6gb or so, whatever, just needs to be more than 3

3: remove any special boot arguments in the config, you don't really want to use them, and set the osx disc1 as your slave ide device in the config

4: start up pearpc with a config file, it'll boot, and take a while

5: when you reach the installer, and it starts asking about your language, go to the Installer menu, and select the Disk Utility, when this starts up, select your (virtual) hard disk, and tell it to erase, this'll make one big partition

6: REBOOT, when this has finished, you need to quit the disk util, then quit the installer, it'll ask if you want to change the startup disk and things, but don't, just let it quit, then start up again, and follow the installer's prompts

7: the installer will go ahead and do its stuff, when it finishes with CD1, it'll shutdown, if you try to boot it again, it'll seem to do nothing at all

8: edit your config file, set prom_env_machargs = "-s" this will let you boot in single user mode, and get booted straight to a bash shell, also while in the config file now, set prom_bootmethod = "select", then boot

9: when you get your bash prompt, do the following
pdisk
e
/dev/disk0
r
3
2
w
q
q
halt

This'll swap around partition 3 and 2, for some reason it seems to create the partition map first, then a blank space, then your partition, then more blank space, your partition needs to be right after the map

10: edit config again, remove the -s from above, and tell it to use cd2

11: boot, and it'll finish off the install, then go through asking you some questions, but you're now pretty much done, if you have the same problems with finder crashing that I am, just leave it running for a while, it seems to calm down

sweem smells

that is all :)