IBM ThinkPad 600

Posted by matason on Friday, 3 September, 2010 - 08:10

When my Mum said she had an old laptop at home somewhere gathering dust and that she thought it looked like my IBM, I got quite excited (I am a geek and I get especially excited about IBM ThinkPads)...

Sure enough, it was an IBM, an old ThinkPad 600 in pretty decent condition!

I couldn't wait to boot it but hit this error screen, it's actually an awesome error screen, as you move the cursor, the duck flaps its wings! They don't make them like they used to! In fact, IBM don't make them at all any more but hey...

stdio.h : No such file or directory

Posted by matason on Friday, 3 September, 2010 - 07:07

I've just been following a getting started with C tutorial, the first task was to write a "Hello world!" program, the suggested code was:

#include < stdio.h>

void main()
{
  printf("\nHello World\n");
}

But when I came to compile it with gcc I got this error:

hello.c:1:21: error:  stdio.h : No such file or directory

Tarn Hows and Scout Scar

Posted by matason on Monday, 16 August, 2010 - 08:37

We took a trip up to the Lake District on Saturday and did two walks, Tarn Hows and Scout Scar. Details of the walks can be found here - http://www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/index/visiting/outdoors/mileswithoutstiles/

Tarn Hows was quite quiet when we arrived at around 11am but when we got back two hours later it was bedlam in the car park and people were waiting for us to leave to take our parking spot.

If you're not a member of the NT the parking was £4 for two hours which I thought was a bit steep but there was a well kept, clean toilet block with a small visitors centre too.

Riceboy Sleeps - Jónsi and Alex

Posted by matason on Friday, 13 August, 2010 - 15:41

Riceboy Sleeps - About the Album (full version) from Jónsi & Alex on Vimeo.

Interviews with Jónsi and Alex about their album Riceboy Sleeps and each song. Features audio/video clips by Jónsi & Alex.
www.jonsiandalex.com

PHPNW TestFest 2010

Posted by matason on Friday, 13 August, 2010 - 08:33

I am still trying to work out whether I can make it but this years PHPNW TestFest is at http://madlab.org.uk/ in Manchester on Sat, 11th September from 12 noon.

More information is at http://wiki.php.net/qa/testfest-2010 and to register http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/6621123.

UPDATE: I've booked my place, I hope I can blend in and be of some use :)

Pimp your site with a NWDUG Banner

Posted by matason on Sunday, 18 July, 2010 - 12:15

Being the *awesome* graphic designer that I am, ahem, I've put together these banners to help promote the North West Drupal user group that meets once a month in Manchester.

http://webgoodness.co.uk/sites/webgoodness.co.uk/files/nwdug-blue-200.jpg