Alan Jeeves Blog

I bought my first camera a few weeks ago – a cannon (IXUS 850IS) and i am loving it!

I’ve created a photo gallery, based on the brilliant Gallery2  and the Ajaxian Theme – browse my albums from here: digial.co.uk/photos.

I’ve also join DeviantArt too (been going there for years but never created an account till today), and submitted my first which can be found here

There’s lots of huge sized guitars on show at The Scoop near work in London. Here are pics of my favourite ones.

Much more can be found here

Today is my birthday, I’m 26 years old!

Went for a Thai meal at work yesterday lunch time – where these pics come from.

Here’s funny anim created from the pic: jeeves.swf

I love Bit Torrent. The Shield series 6 has just started and won’t be shown over here (UK) for ages – channel Five showed the last series – haven’t got a clue when they will show this one.

But the great thing is even the US don’t get to watch it first – France TV is showing two episodes a week and started the same time as the US, and Bit Torrent / the Internet being so great there is someone recording it – cutting out the ads and posting it up on bit torrent straight after … Continue Reading

A lot has been said about this but it is crazy – they are charging 190% more for Adobe CS3 in the UK over the US proce.

They say its because it costs more to support the product over here but thats just over the top pricing.

It costs the same price to buy a ticket to fly to America  and buy the product over there than it does to buy CS3 here! See this post for more about this.

Gameloft’s Connect application is a great idea implemented well. Basically it allows you to buy Gameloft’s mobile (Java – J2ME) games and installed them straight to the phone via the data cable.

Works well – although sometimes i find gameseither dont install or remove themselves when the cable is disconnected, but Gameloft email support re-allocated the game for me to install again which was nice of them.

Shame they don’t allow other game developers to sell their games through the same app.

Also it can be slow loading pages – but hopefully that will improve.

The good thing is that … Continue Reading

In the end this was very easy, with help from a couple of sites as usual.

Heres how:

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
and add:
# James Cameron’s PPTP GUI packaging

deb http://quozl.netrek.org/pptp/pptpconfig ./

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pptpconfig
Saying Yes / Ok to authentication warning etc.

gksudo pptpconfig

And then enter vpn server details, click routing and select routing type
And then click connect!

Thats it!

Well wasn’t for me as i tried to be clever and do it the manual way because i forgot about sudo and
thought i couldn’t edit /etc/apt/sources.list and so couldn’t get pptpconfig.

But all good now 

Pages used:
http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-ubuntu.phtml
And while trying to do it manually:
http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/routing.phtml#all-to-tunnel
http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-diagnosis.phtml#649

Moved to our new office in May.

Had to go in on the saturday to sort out the network and PCs – but was worth it.

Its just next to Tower Bridge and a lovely walk in along the river from London bridge, past the Mayor’s Building.  And most importantly i don’t have to cross any roads!

Stayed all night a few times – just easier than taking a couple of hours going home and coming back in the morning, and as its soo homely its hard to leave!

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Thought i’ll ditch my personal home page (which can still be found here: digial.co.uk/oldsite) for the king of blog software WordPress!

I will be converting all my old content over into here over time.

Though i just found ForkPress which sounds good but needs time to mature i think.