Archeia

A little update

Ok, it's been a while, mainly because I didn't like what I ended up with with MODx and also the shared hosting was dog slow.

Getting the Samsung YP-P2 working with Ubuntu Gutsy

I have no idea what happened yesterday when I charged it, it charged for only a few minutes then the led turned to green (meaning it's finished) yet there was virtually no charge on the battery indicator.

I charged it last night and it's now at full charge, so I'm happy at the moment.

Deciding on a new MP3 player

I've had an Xclef MT-500 for about 5 years now, but it has a number of problems:

• The battery life is crap and I have to carry around a number of spares.
• internal memory can corrupt easily.
• There are no more firmware updates, and these can easily go wrong cau

Burn out

I know I've been suffering from this for the past 3 years; basically, since I left my last programming job. I had actually been suffering during the time I was there, for at least 2 years really. I should've left a year after being there like I was going to.

The Ada Microkernel Project (or TAMP): The plan

Following on from my hello world style kernel, I've decided to post a plan for what I intend to accomplish in regards to an OS design.

I've been thinking about OS designs for over 10 years on and off and have wanted to develop one.

Site template enhancements

After playing with Google AdSense and Amazon Affiliate code, I found that the size of the template was just wrong, so I've gone through and made it slightly wider.

Amazon affiliate scheme

As you can probably tell, I've been playing with the Amazon Affiliation links and have found that:

• Most of them just don't fit on this site because their size.
• They're not customisable in regards to their size like I thought they might be.
• The optimised link

Samurai programming?

I've just been reading an Ada blog and found a link to

Professors Slam Java As "Damaging" To Students

Just posted on SlashDot.com is an article outlining the problems with

An Ada95 "hello world" style kernel

Conversations on #Ada keep coming back to operating systems and their kernels so I decided to dig out some code I wrote in 2000 and get it working again. I intended this code to be the basis of a microkernel written in Ada.