Been a couple of very productive weeks and I have to admit that the help provided by Claude and Claude Code has probably compressed several months work into those 2 weeks. I had been for ever telling duck.ai there were mistakes and given the very small window of conversation, a lot of time was spent moving context from one chat to another. The free copy of claude.ai just went on and on over a few days but it became obvious that the 'out of time' me…

Long time since I did a health post, which is a little lax of me as I should be using it to better monitor just what is going on. Just finished my morning physio and cooling down. The physio started almost 2 years ago and was originally directed to movement problems with my right knee. Something that had been ongoing for some time since my right leg had blown up and been almost unusable. The ultrasound at that time showed 'chronic problems' with the structures around the knee but the…

Painful but actually fun for a change, although I do think a night out at the 'Rumours of Fleetwood Mac' concert over at Warwick University Arts Centre probably helped.
claude.ai has sort of been helping despite getting cut off after a little while, added to which while there is some useful information in the recent thread spread over several day, and I've managed to add some practical crib sheets on several matters, it has not been a particularly productive process!

OK it's my own fault for not being careful about checking what I was buying, but I needed another 8Tb disk as the off-air TV recordings was filling up the existing disk. At under £80 delivered it was good buy, and arrived the next day. The magic I had missed was 'SAS' rather than 'SATA' and although the drive plugged into the hot swap disk cage and powered up, it was not visible. You need a different controller which will handle SAS and as it happens drop back to SAT…

OK lets leave yesterdays post for the record and start fresh today.

Back in the 1980's I was happily working with Borland BCB as my development framework, and all of the systems worked off that. We had developed a simple graphics card that allowed multiple monitors to be hooked up and used as for information displays. Four 625 line RGB feeds of each card, and a number of ISA cards could be driven of the one machine. Nov…

BUGGER thought I had cracked that problem. Having spent 2 hours working on a post it did not save :( Seems to have lost the session ticket so perhaps it is taking too long which is the problem. In the past I always saved what I had done to the clipboard, but failed to do that this time. So we have to start again ... at least all the key links are still on the browser. Will get back to this later as I need my morning physio and exercise.

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KDE desktop styling and usability problems - Phase Two is an update on the previous state of play, and some areas do seem to be going backwards, but on the whole the bitweaver code base is looking quite good and everything is in sync onto the github master. Even the backup server is now running the latest code, and I think it's time to retire all the backup copies that need PHP7.3/4 to actually run. _bw4 has been replaced by _bw5 and very few complaints about things that php8.4 does n…

Accessing Claude Haiku 4.5 is irritating, but it does at least throw up some useful alternative paths. The code it creates can be very hit and miss, and as has been the case recently, pointless since it was never addressing the actual best path. As I've said before, what is missing is a why? Asking why I'm trying to do something might get us to the right starting point, but recent discussions - over several days of limited access - have been more productive and I now have a better pla…

If these Advanced Idiots are supposed to improve productivity then they have a LONG way to go. I have been playing with areas of the bitweaver framework which have been broken for some time and endeavouring to replace the gaps with more modern alternatives. One area has been the displaying of pdfs in the gallery system. Originally this was provided by a flash based option but when that was killed off, and the browsers took over displaying them directly, the display within a page has been miss…

Perhaps this is not really a rant, since actually I have managed to address most of the niggles that have grown up over the last couple of years. Today things are ACTUALLY looking good and even a reboot of the desktop is less that a minute where it was taking that time simply to shut down, and then a few minutes to reboot. The servers are almost sub 10 second from hitting reboot now to logging back in so the desktop should not be too much longer.
So the first aggro was the drive to ret…