Day to Day Log

A couple of weeks back some pages from The Engineer came up on eBay at was perhaps a little more than I would want to pay, even after being offered a 10% discount, but the quality looked quite good, and it was pages of an article on SS Tynwald, one of the Isle of Man ferries and so of interest to my library of information. Since paying for them I have now found a free source of the same pages via the Internet Archive, and have s…

What I nice start to the morning! Last night the stumbling block was the old copy of PHP pear bundled in the util package. I screwed up a little trying to install the latest version, and in hindsight it was probably already installed via the tumbleweed repository. I currently have a second copy and have managed to download all the pear packages that Bitweaver uses (so far as I've tested) and have updated it in the util folder. It threw up a few more Bitweaver plug-ins and templates that neede…

Was it really 14 years ago I last posted to the Mozilla forums? Anyway, just done a new feature request which does explain the situation nicely. Although another nice to have did pop up and there may be an answer to that one. Rather than thunderbird creating it's own browser page, could it not switch to Firefox which has all the account passwords. Not something I use often and email links do go direct to Firefox so per…

Something of a disastrous weekend. Started on Saturday with a problem with my profile on Firefox getting messed up. Partially my own problem as I'd been using a clone user account on the desktop but it was now biting when trying to tidy up other things on the network, so I switched back to a simple 'lester' as is on all the servers. Thought I'd covered all the bases moving the current configuration to the new profile, but apparently not. Anyway while a few bits are still messe…

The last 24 hours have been quite productive even having had an evening off to go out for a meal! Once again Mistral has proven that while it gets some things right, it is far from a reliable tool. In hindsight if I had simply done a normal search the right information in relation to submodules in git would have been at hand. That said, debugging the material the chatbot produced in the latest thread HAS given me a better understanding of how the whole process hangs together across VSCode, gi…