I needed a new CF card for my camera, and even though it is a 300D and doesnt seem to support the speed improvements I bought a 120x CF card thinking that when I upgrade my camera later this year then i could get the speed out of it (and not have to replace the card having only had it a few months).
I was quite surprised to find that the camera writes to disk twice as fast as with my old cards (42x and 48x speed). I was not expecting the card to make any difference with the 300D. Apparently it does…
I think I have figured out what takes up all my free time (which could have been spent blogging). My girlfriend bought a copy of Worms 4 Mayhem (I am sure that there have been 4 worms games before it, but hey) for the Playstation 2. It is much like the other Worms games, but is 3D. The animation is pretty good, though could perhaps have been better (maybe I am too used to 3D PC games?). The weapons are mostly the same, but there are some weapons not in this version, and some new ones. You can create your own weapons which is fun, but ultimately there was probably something similar in the other worms games - you can tailor it for exactly what you want though.
The game is immense fun, and we have only really played the one game stye (normal deathmatch, you also have games with bases and I think a king of the hill style game). It is the first game for the playstation we have found that we both enjoy so much. It is quite likely to keep me occupied for a long, long time.
The support pac is compatible with MQExplorer v602 and above and can be downloaded here
It provides a single point for administering your Message Brokers and can be used side by side with your current Message Broker Toolkit. The Broker Explorer (IS02) has the following features…
- DataPower Wizard used to configure a DataPower box to handle WS Security for your HTTP(S) Input Nodes.
- Accounting and Statistics charting for graphing your real-time broker statistics.
- Small/ lightweight download and installation
- Configuration managers viewed under Queue Managers
- Ability to connect to remote configuration managers and to show its controlled brokers
- Show/ hide configuration managers.
- Tidy a configuration managers state preference. (selecting this and then connecting to a configuration manager causes a clean sweep algorithm to attempt to reconcile all brokers known to the configuration manager. Interactively tidying the configuration managers tables. This is off by default but can be turned on in the “Windows -> preferences -> Broker Explorer” preference page)
- Import/ export v5, v6 *.configmgr files.
- Full MQ security configuration manager connection
- Addition of flow resources
- Show/ hide flow resources
- Full “Event Log” view support with filtering tied to the MQExplorer selection
- Save “Event Log” view
- Clear “Event Log” events
- Deploy to multiple execution groups
- Double click on a BAR to inspect it
- Full service trace controlled from “Service Trace” preference pages. (Using AspectJ)
- Multi threading with all non UI tasks running in background tasks
- Ships with complete working MB documentation.
- Ships with EOU Default Configuration Wizard and samples
- Brokers state saved between sessions. (Uses EMF model framework persistence)
I have been so busy recently that I have not had time to post (again!). A few weeks ago I changed departments at work again, and am back in development though now the functional test department has merged with development, so I have been testing for the last few weeks. This means I am up to my neck in perl modules. It has been fun, and quite a learning experience. Unfortunately I have found several defects in the perl automation libraries, which really slow down my work. I have also started to use zOS, and it is quite different from anything I have used before. Thankfull I am using USS (Unix System Services) most of the time, so can find my way around that, but sometimes I have to use the real zOS interface, and that is rather tricky when you have no idea what you are doing.
I have also become the server admin for an internal Debian repository at work, which supplies several essential internal packges all sorted out to install on Debian nicely - this can be a challenge to achieve sometimes. I am doing some packaging too, which is fun but has been another long learning experience - I always though Debian packges were lot simpler than they really are.
On Saturday I was up in London for the WildChild dance festival, which was moved from Shoreditch Park to Kings Cross freight yards (home of the keys, the cross and canvas) which was just as well as it was a really wet day. The day was really good, lots of great music though the rooms (of which there must have been 8 or 10) varied in terms of size, neatness and amounts of lighting. The only regret was that somehow I missed Dogzilla - we were in the right room at the right time, but no mention of them…
On the way back from London the train got stuck outside Winchester while the Police armed response unit was called for a security incident on the train at winchester station. Strangely the conductor called smokers to the back of the train and allowed people to stand in the back drivers cab with the windows open and smoke, while he was at the other end of the train. This is more strange because the next morning smoking is banned in all enclosed public spaces in England, and smoking on trains has not been permitted for several years (I can’t remember it happening, though I can remember smoking on planes).
