suse 11.1 on samsung r40

increasingly fed up with the flakiness of xorg on the Samsung R 40 laptop with my ubuntu 9.04. Constantly had to reboot using the rescue mode.

Notes for using suse 11.1 with KDE:

1. Imagemagick is installed by default
2. Touchfreeze is a possible solution to the 'cursor jumping whilst typing' problem, although see this forum post desribing how to use syndaemon
3. Add the comunity based repos, especially the xxxman one
4. Mythtv frontend can be called from YaST2
5. DVD playback is an issue
   

Meeting with Prime Minister

Gordon Brown come to Worksop's Valley School and I long with about 40 other people representing the community sat around tables, discussed and asked questions.

Here's a report on what he said (though I didn't hear him say some of these things!) Perhaps he said them at another part of the meeting(?), or perhaps this is what his speech writer meant for him to say! Nevertheless he spoke well I thought.

Ubuntu 9.04 - issues with upgrading

Samsung laptop.
All went well using update manager from 8.10 except that I have the bug mentioned here with mythtv not showing any text.

Best fix for this, as of (6/6/09), run mythtv using this command from terminal:

XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS="1" mythfrontend

eee 701
Installed ubuntu net book remix for first time.
Has issue of hanging with a desktop background but no gnome icons. it did work first install when it went straight into netbook desktop, although that seemed jerky. Looks like a gnome windows manager problem.

ibook g4 ppc
Installed using an online upgrade from a 8.04 install disk, via 8.10 then 9.04 upgrade manager installs.
Same issue as with eee.

this post fixed it on the ppc (but not the eee)

drop to a shell using ctrl+alt+F2, then:

sudo dpkg --force all --configure -a

Gasometers I've known and loved

This is the one that started it all really. My observant friend commented one day in amazement that the gasometer was not the same height as when last seen. my interest has grown from that precious moment...

Kernel Headers explained

Thanks to BrionS at USA Linux Users Group for this info:

Put simply headers are sets of files that define all the application programming interface (API) for a program. So if you're writing some C or C++ code and you want to use the function: getWidget(myContext); Then somewhere in your build path (when you go to compile the code) you need a header that describes where getWidget(Context c) is defined.

Header files end in .h or sometimes .h++. Source code files typically end in .c, .cpp, or .c++ and inside them you'll see references to .h files (sometimes - it can get complicated).

In any event, to compile a program that uses what's called a function library (or just library), you need to have the header files for that library so your compiler can check your code for syntax problems (by comparing what you wrote to the function definition in the header(s)). You don't need the entire source code for the library in order to use the functions - this saves you a lot of space because header files are very small compared to the source files.

You could think of header files like Cliff Notes. Your program needs to know a little bit of information about one of the functions it's using, the header files provide a very brief overview of the function which is enough for you to compile. If you wanted the whole story, you'd need the function's source code.

The reason the header files are not generally included by default is because these days most distributions provide you with binary (pre-compiled) packages for your system. Since you don't have to do any compiling, you don't need to look up any function definitions by their headers, you can simply run your software which has already been verified against the headers when it was compiled and it uses the pre-compiled function libraries (lib*.so) on your system.

If you have the wrong version of a function library on your system, then the pre-compiled binary usually breaks with a segmentation fault or something like that and you either need to get the right library version installed or re-compile the program from source using the library version (and its headers) that you have so it is now referencing the correct API.

Lots of words above, but it all boils down to this:

1. If you install binary packages, you don't need header files

2. If you install source packages, you'll need the header files and/or source of that package's dependencies

Acts 10: ECG a heart for the nations llandudno 2009

Acts and the Spirit - the Spirit of Mission


Church in transition. a 'home team' for 1000 years. Rules have changed. always got penalty's, free kicks, appointed the ref etc etc when we were at home. Now we're playing 'away' all has changed. For first time for 1600 years the church now faces a time when is much more like the early Church. We are in transition; extremes. we look at Acts 10 in light of that.

Acts 10 here

Pipes with taps on don't work just by planting them in the ground.
the spirit is the spirit of mission, Church can't be removed from it source

More positively: Wherever we seek to be the the church by the spirit we cn be sure of spirit's help.

Great Commission (matt. 28) is it a 'straight' or 'conditional' promise. Missional spirit of acts indicates tht either way when we engage with the task of church the spirit wil be there.

Acts is book of 'waves' of the spirit working

Wave of moving to the Jews
Wave of persecution faced by believers
Wave of moving to the gentiles

• Cornelius story and Peter's vision an example, along with Ethiopian eunuch.

Key characters

• cornelius
• angels - luke loves angels, uses a sign that god's coming. enlightenment meant that we had to tell our story in a liberal way. spent a lot of 19 and 20 c rationalising and demyhtologising faith, just at the time when society re-mythologizes life. secular theology. we do n0t give time to heart all head in past. we don't believe non-spiritual enough. our faith is non sensible, n0n cerible. has our belief been drilled out of us...
• peter - why peter needed? god could have just zapped faithful cornelius? luke loves journey's donkey, 12 yr old J, samaritan, emmaeus, and lots of journey on road. conversion always happens on road (semon) peter and cornelius journeying. what of the vision of food? Is this a homer simpson moment doh 3 times and 3 time I denied J. dliemma, whether i obey or disobey god's word would appear to be challenged. Is P thiinking about the fact that often in the ministry of Jesus P etc had to ignore ritual purity laws. Nb Peter is in joppa where Jonah had rn way to. Joanh had to go to unclen Nineveh'ns.

Key points

The spirit of mission is pushing us to reconsider everything.
Even those who think they know what's what (Peter) have to journey and move on.

Wesley 'became more vile' when he broke the rules of c of e and spoke to kingswood miners. but he till did it.

God does new things. Peter opts to stick in there depiste difficulty, see acts 11, difficult conversations will follow.

cornelius and peter. who converted who? OK coernelius is converted, but also a progressive conversion of peter. 1st lukewarm towards to cornelius' men, but by time he has travelled to cornelius he has interpreted the dream to say i now see that i must not call anyone unclean (nothing to do with the food). another step along the journey of peters conversion,

Acts 2 14ff: ECG a heart for the nations llandudno 2009

What Happens the Day after the Day Before

Acts 2: 14ff - here

Not so much about Church as:

1. Community

2. c

3. c

Whole of NT can be seen as a commentary on the issue of how these frail xtns were trying to be getting on with each other

Minucius Felix c. 160ad

Beauty of life causes strangers to join our ranks; we do not talk about great things, we live them

v38 Repentance

Many of our Churches minitries bypass repentance. Sign outside church 'Sinners Only' made to take down. Repentance is an ongoing process, a permintant state, not just a one off event. Church at it's best when able to react to all issues in light of a repenting response. church become a common community of repentance.

Primitive Xty is not about a ticklist of beliefs to be subscribed too.

MA says that the more salvation is about fer and terror of God, the shallower and more shrt term that faith is likely to be. Opposite is true as well.

v42 Devotion

to:

Loving devotion is the inspiration of the early disciples.

• All in the context of the 'teachin of the apostles'

• discipleing mentoring, exampling, apprenticing.

Fellowship - koinania life together

• not communism, but generous graciousness
• poor folk teach us lessons about 'one anotherness'
• Paul's churches in the ports were wealthy, needed to show

To the breaking of Bread - not HC

• Alpha didn't invent food and fellowship!
• MA sees J not as Robert Powell but Jennifer
  
• people who you don't normally get on with will be in the fellowship. Acts 6 illutrates that people who shouldn't eat together can be found, there the risen Xt is.
  

Formal worship by end of 2nd C Tertullian said that basic requirements of worship are HC and intercession.