[Malvern] Of iMacs and MessageLabs

[Richard Forster]

Currently installing Debian onto the iMac Andy generously donated. 
Thanks again.

Tried Fedora last night but although it could boot from the CD it 
couldn't read it to do the install and kept spitting the disk out. Not fun.
So overnight I grabbed the minimal debian install image and tried that 
this morning. Guess what? It could boot from the CD but complained it 
couldn't find the files on it to install from  --- same problem!

Debian did however offer a more finely grained set of 'back' options 
which let me ask it to try reconfiguring the CD again. Which it managed 
successfully.

That solved, it was then harder for me to find a crossover cable than it 
was to configure my main box to route internet traffic through its 
second network card. I did think to check whether it was a recent enough 
machine to not care about cable chirality.

Give it 3 more hours or so and it might be done.



As for the MessageLabs gig tomorrow evening. I know Geoff wants to go, 
anyone else?
Geoff, shall we share a car?



Regarding the ultra-fast optics streaming lecture from the Royal Society 
discussion last night.
The one I watched is here:
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?tip=1&id=3847
To watch it, I selected Microsoft Media Player: High Bandwidth and then 
viewed source of that page to find the feed address then fed that 
straight into mplayer. In this case:
mplayer mms://193.63.75.9/onDemand/CPL2005_sibbett_hi.wmv



Cheers

Rick