Jeremy Visser

Thanks to Pavel Roskin and Richard Chan, my Compaq W200 wireless LAN adapter is now working in Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn).

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It seems that the only web-based client for SVN is one called WebClient for SVN, which runs on Java.

What I wanted was a nice, simple way for files in a Subversion repository to be updated from a web frontend, but it seems there is virtually no market for such a tool.

I didn’t really feel like setting up a Tomcat monster on my web server, so, I’m writing my own in PHP. It will feature a minimalistic frontend, with everything you need to update files remotely, and not much else. It will use the svn command as a backend, so your web server will need to be configured to use that.

Stay tuned.

All (none) of you loyal readers may remember the fun I’ve been having with NVIDIA. Well, after probably over a year and a half of frustration, I have found what seems to be a solution to 3D apps under Linux segfaulting randomly. Well, my latest solution was to turn off AGP, which made the computer stable, but dog slow.

I can’t remember exactly what it was that sparked me, but a few days ago I heard that agpgart was giving some problems to users. I was trying to see if the NVIDIA drivers used agpgart or not, and after typing nvidia-xconfig -A | less it became apparent that the drivers use agpgart by default. One thing new that I learnt then was that NVIDIA has their own AGP system that I had never before used, called NvAGP.

By typing at the command-line:

$ sudo nvidia-xconfig --nvagp=1

to force the drivers to use NvAGP instead of agpgart, I found that the system was instantly stable. A slight performance drop was encountered (by about 50fps) but it more than makes up for it in terms of the stability I now get.

The following story was written by me for an English assignment. Because it’ll get lost one day if I don’t publish it, here it is now, to be archived in my blog.

New Shoes

Leslie and Lisa were both siblings, but not the sort of siblings you would expect. You see, Leslie and Lisa were a pair of shoes. Leslie was the can’t-sit-still type, who always looked forward to a jog. While Lisa enjoyed exercise as well, she preferred sitting at home, twiddling her shoelaces, or reading.

Leslie was a bit of a prankster, and enjoyed tying his sister’s shoelaces to a chair leg while she was asleep. Lisa got her revenge by finding chewing gum and sticking it to the bottom of his sole when he was asleep.

Lisa’s appearance sported a light shade of blue, while Leslie looked mostly blue, with red streaks along the sides of him, which he always said made him look like the racing cars on television.

Both Leslie and Lisa lived in a shop window on the corner of two busy streets. Opposite the shop’s south face was an ice cream parlour, with a bookshop to the west.

Near the beginning of the school season, a ten-year-old boy named Thom and his mother came shopping for shoes.

“My boy is complaining his shoes hurt,” said Thom’s mother to the shopkeeper.

Thom was a short boy with unusually large feet, so he always had a hard time finding shoes that fit him. His father had the same problem. In fact, his father used to be a champion swimmer, and it was presumed the reason for his success was because of his large feet.

After a short consultation with the shopkeeper, Thom was later walking out with Leslie and Lisa on his feet.

“Thanks, Mum!” said Thom, happily. “These shoes feel great! I feel like I could run a mile!”

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