boxel » Masters

Oh yes!!!!

chris — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:38:59 +0000

Found out today that I passed and am now an MSc. So to celebrate a quick trip to Mr Bun was called for.

International artist

chris — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:11:12 +0000

The International Digital Art Festival is being held at National Academy of Art in Sofia, Bulgaria and free:dyne has been included! Full details of the festival can be found here

All finished

chris — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:49:28 +0000

I’ve just submitted my thesis so after 2 years, my masters is all done and dusted.

Thesis: Free Lunch?

Project: free:dyne

Bad sectors

chris — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:28:05 +0000

Bloody brilliant, now I’ve got bad sectors in the middle of ubuntu – why couldn’t it have been XP

Scarey times

chris — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:35:48 +0000

Had a rough coupla days recently. Grub went bad on me and wouldn’t let me boot into ubuntu or windoze but i’ve managed to eventually sort that out and am now able to make isos again. And then overnight I get an email telling me that my site has been taken offline due to unusual activity. All I did was install WordPress for the supporting website to the project. Not sure if the unusual activity referred to the WordPress files or the fact that I was finally installing something new – bit cheeky if the latter! Anyways, got an apology from them and if you can read this then I’m still up and running.

Hmmmm

chris — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:31:29 +0000

Trimming down the base distro is proving to be a bit of a pig coz everytime I remove something I need I have to do the full install. I don’t really want to have to suggest that users have to have a larger usb drive but I might not have much choice as time is running out. AND, despite it supporting wireless, it looks as though the computer needs to be connected up by a wire initially. Still, at least it ain’t raining

Size does matter

chris — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:37:46 +0000

I’ve had some feedback and it’s not good although not completely bad. My distro won’t fit on a 4GB pen drive which is the smallest I was aiming for. Admittedly I haven’t really gone thru all of the base distro’s setup so it was a bit of a rush job. Guess I better get onto that pretty damn sharpish.

Test version unleased

chris — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:49:22 +0000

So I’ve managed to make an image copy and have sent it to a small group of fellow geeks who have offered to help. I’ve asked them to be brutally honest……hopefully they won’t be too brutal

Quick update

chris — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:59:12 +0000

Had a bit of a mini success and have managed to get a bootable version of Ubuntu onto a USB stick. I had a bit of a problem getting my laptop to boot from it but after a quick experiment with the boot options (see below) I managed to get it up and running. Now I just need to install all of the applications that I want and maybe customise the boot screen and that hopefully should be that.

Ubuntu it is

chris — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:28:21 +0000

I’ve had a really positive response back about my choice of base distro for the project and the latest version Ubuntu is a clear winner although openSUSE got a mention so might be worth a look at least.