Lester's Rants

On one hand I've made little progress this week, with the BT broadband having been down for 4 days over some unknown area of Evesham. WHY can't they just be honest and say what area is affected so we know where to go to get outside the problem? Waiting now to see if the compensation scheme pays up, although with 6 days out in total in the last three weeks just being paid for two of them seems crass. Something to discuss if the complaints team do follow up on the complaint registered o…

Having just spent another week going around in circles trying to get a stable Linux desktop, it is time that I decided just what my priorities should be. That a lot of the kit I have been using is probably too old to cope with the current setup has been a little obvious for some time, but I has been working happily despite the problems that 'upgrades' to tumbleweed have brought to the party. When first set up in the flat, a 2 channel VGA KVM switch provided access to the windows machi…

It is almost 11 months since I moved into the flat and finally there is progress on solving the problem of no pressure on the hot water. Now I just need to get the go ahead on converting the loft space into a railway room and small workshop. I've put down some flooring where the 1980's roof trusses are supported by the kitchen and bathroom walls, but to expand the area to perhaps 6 meters square I will need to add some more substantial joists which only need to span 3 meters from the…

OK got up this morning planning to get on with some real work, but spotted an article on The Register that Plasma6.4 has been released which included a warning that X11 may not be supported! So 2.5 hours later after checking in again with wayland on my Version 6.3 setup ... I'm back with X11!

The reason is quite simple. One of the main applicatins I use, as I am NOW, is Firefox, but on wayland the windo…

Just been reading Jeremy Bowen's report on the BBC New site re Palestine. It prompted me to put a comment in as it just flags up the injustice that many people in the world today have to put up with. I pushed the following as a 'Have your say' message, and am copying it here mainly for my own reference. 50e18d8f-b60b-46f5-bcf7-c3220dc24a51

"The one thing that I am seein…