Well yesterday was my Birthday and amoung other things we went to see shhh… at the V&A yesterday, and it was really quite good. Its an exploritive of music composed by various musicians with varying degrees of success. Of the highlights was Roots Manuva and a long time favourite of mine, Cornelius. Just walking around looking at the exhibits with music gave quite a different feel to the whole museum and I really recommend that even if you didn’t get to see this, take an iPod around and try and make your own soundtrack – the results are outstanding and sometimes felt like I was involved within a movie

This is a really easy way of mounting a windows share on a Debian box. It takes like 5 minutes to install and perhaps less to setup.

First as root:

Then try the following to get the server mounted:

mount �t smbfs �o username=YOURWINDOWSUSER,password=YOURWINDOWSPASSWORD //SERVER/FILESHARE/YOURMOUNTPOINT

It appears that the apt source (the main uk Debian mirror – ftp.uk.debian.org ) that I was using didn’t produce the full list when I was trying to install the software. Instead I used one of the others that you can get from this page (apt source list is basically the same as the mirror list) – http://www.uk.debian.org/mirror/list . I am just trying the http://debian.hands.com/ one at the moment, after manually editing the /etc/apt/sources.list file.

Just been trying out the install to the latest unstable version of Debian (that is due to go to stable this september) and I must say that I am impressed. The old installer was alittle hard to use, even for those with Linux experience, but now it helps you along most of the way.

I choose the net installer so I didn’t have to download Gb’s of Iso’s and let it get on its merry way, the only thing that was slightly confusing was the package chooser after I had choose to install custom packages (there are default options for web, file, print etc. servers). Exiting out of the package chooser mean’t that I had a very basic system, but in 15 minutes I had X installed and then after I installed gnome from the standard APT installation

apt-get install gnome

And this version of gnome was very impressive. Samba, smbclient and smbfs installed just as easily and then I could see out windows network with little effort.

Just going to play the new Bjork album, Medulla on humhum radio for a bit. Its the first time that I have listened to it aswell, but I have heard that it is good!

1. Pleasure Is All Mine
2. Show me Forgiveness
3. Where Is The Line?
4. Vokuro
5. Oll Birtan
6. Who Is It
7. Oceania
8. Submarine
9. Sonnets/Unrealities XI
10. Desired Constellation
11. Ancestors
12. Mouths Cradle
13. Mivikudags
14. Triumph Of A Heart

And if you like it, buy it: Bjork – Medulla.

Just a couple of branding sites that have been posted on the renascentfused board that I thought would be very useful for future reference.

http://www.ge.com/brand/design_library

http://www.cidoc.net/

http://users.ncrvnet.nl/mstol/57.htm

I am particularly impressed with a corporate like General Electric putting their brand tools on a very public part of their site.