Hey fords!
Yes you Mr and Mrs Ford, Baby Ford and Doggy Ford.
Ya'll needs to ring me or mail me as i have no tel no or valid mail addy for you lot and have some interesting propositions!!!
Be in touch ASAP cheers
Friday, July 06, 2007
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Tales from the pier wall
Here's some pics from 30.5.07 which i just got in this week at the pier wall outside roker harbour.
It's a great spot because as its so close to home and when it works it works good with a near perfect,uniform wave everytime in good conditions.
Me carving about.
Ferg dropping down a fair sized one.
Daz going for it.
Some bloke had stolen his ma's ironing board,
this is just a great photo.
More carverama.
Riding the green.
Nice one Pat for taking more pics!
While thinking of a title for this post, i at last remembered
'Tales from the Tube'
A magazine i found lying around at school when i was about 13 in art class and obviously have still not forgotten it until now.
The art work in this mag was so good by a guy called Rick Griffin who was also a leader in designing 60's psycedelic rock posters and album covers for the 'gratefuldead'.
Turns out mr griffin is some boy, google him to find the more secret truths in his life? as i'm not giving the full game away.
R.I.P. rick griffin.
Turns out in 1976 rick griffin toured europe with his art and did exhibitions in Amsterdam, London and sunderland.
hows about that then lol.
More on mr griffin!
It's a great spot because as its so close to home and when it works it works good with a near perfect,uniform wave everytime in good conditions.
Me carving about.
Ferg dropping down a fair sized one.
Daz going for it.
Some bloke had stolen his ma's ironing board,
this is just a great photo.
More carverama.
Riding the green.
Nice one Pat for taking more pics!
While thinking of a title for this post, i at last remembered
'Tales from the Tube'
A magazine i found lying around at school when i was about 13 in art class and obviously have still not forgotten it until now.
The art work in this mag was so good by a guy called Rick Griffin who was also a leader in designing 60's psycedelic rock posters and album covers for the 'gratefuldead'.
Turns out mr griffin is some boy, google him to find the more secret truths in his life? as i'm not giving the full game away.
R.I.P. rick griffin.
Turns out in 1976 rick griffin toured europe with his art and did exhibitions in Amsterdam, London and sunderland.
hows about that then lol.
More on mr griffin!
Friday, June 15, 2007
Eski Boy
Wiley just had a new album out it seem's,
he's no longer eating pie's but is still living the igloo life, but playtime is over and the boy just twisted his tongue again.
he's no longer eating pie's but is still living the igloo life, but playtime is over and the boy just twisted his tongue again.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Arcane
Went to see storm and klute last nite in newcastle in the attic of the students union, Ms storm was banging out all the latest metalheadz tunes and tommy withers was just a pro playing d-kay,skc and the like with clinical engineering. All the while there was all sorts going on downstairs in the other 4 roomz which were just boring in comparison to what was going on in the attic. then onto a party on osbourne rd in jesmond how those guys get away with that is just unreal.
Cheers Jo!
Klute Mix!
Klute info!
Saturday, June 09, 2007
Jim's Sk8 Fliks
I keep awaking to find my son making short film's out of the footage and music lying around on my pc. I like it! and wish i had the same patience, Nice one James as the folks involved are gonna love it.
a film by james cook from gapsta on Vimeo
a film by james cook from gapsta on Vimeo
Ian's B-day Bash
Us old boy's have just been up to bonny sweaty sock land and Ian is now 44 years young and still tearing the place apart!
Myself, Matt, and Ian have been hitting the latest and greatest in the edinburgh area's
Legendry livi, uphall! and the penicuik mexican fest.
you are watching this space
Uphall pure fun skate party.
B-day Massive sitting down in Satan's toilet bowl
Ian with a real rock on.
Looking at the lip.
Always wanted to trick this hip and did land it a few times :)
Hawaii 5-0 fun in the sun.
I did'nt roll away from this but its a great piccy anyways.
Cheers in order for matt for the pic's and sat nav exploration vehicle.
Myself, Matt, and Ian have been hitting the latest and greatest in the edinburgh area's
Legendry livi, uphall! and the penicuik mexican fest.
you are watching this space
Uphall pure fun skate party.
B-day Massive sitting down in Satan's toilet bowl
Ian with a real rock on.
Looking at the lip.
Always wanted to trick this hip and did land it a few times :)
Hawaii 5-0 fun in the sun.
I did'nt roll away from this but its a great piccy anyways.
Cheers in order for matt for the pic's and sat nav exploration vehicle.
Friday, June 08, 2007
Seaburn Monica Airlines
The youngun's from the toon have been down my new park with some flipping mental video editing, although ive been getting gnarlston in scotland..watch this space
Seaburn Montage from wudjacalee on Vimeo
Seaburn Montage from wudjacalee on Vimeo
Sunday, June 03, 2007
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Monday, September 18, 2006
Friday, July 21, 2006
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Vista ?
well am gaggin for windoze vista to become real and have installed the brico/vista inspirat pack,
It works good and gives the option to indivually colour folders to your needs and dramaticlly changes the the xp expeirence(lol), also the object dock launcher bar gets rid of desktop icon's cluttering the desktop space which leaves a lot of room for video playing appz to be windowed on the desktop with ease of launching other appz at the same time
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
XGL
K i finally got this up and running, it's taken me at least 3 attempts each time ending up at a command line on reboot. i think this was mainly due to piecing guides together to get the result i wanted. This is definetly one of the best things about using linux as it's not too hard to modify guides etc and fully customize any part of the linux(ubuntu) system.
although i can't get the opacity plugin working it does work good, heres a little screencast i did showing a few of the features of xgl,compiz.
http://www.jamesgregson.clara.net/xgl.avi
i think this uses a indeo codec but easily plays using vlc player
and here is the pieced together guide's i used
a clean install of ubuntu 5.10 helps methinks and this guide is for nvidia cards only
Step one
Let's add dapper sources to apt. If you are one of the lucky ones already running it, skip to the next step. Otherwise, just throw this line in /etc/apt/sources.list/
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main universe restricted multiverse
apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade, and you're good to go. As has been mentioned in some feedback, this can take a long time, especially for those without very fast connections.
this is a recommended way to do this.
I assume you have installed the newest Nvidia driver from the repositories if not get it with this command
sudo apt-get install nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-glx
Now lets edit some xorg.conf. First thing is to open it with this command:
sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Find the “Module” section. Comment out the “Glcore” and “dri “ modules and make sure a “glx” module is there. So basically like this:
# Load "GLcore"
# Load "dri"
Load "glx"
Now find the “Devices” section.
Change every line but the “Identifier” line to look just like mine:
Section "Device"
Identifier- leave this line alone!
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
EndSection
IF LATER ON COMPIZ DOES NOT WORK FOR YOU (and complains about composite extension):
Add this to the very bottom:
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
DON'T ADD IT OTHERWISE
VERY IMPORTANT:
Make sure your default color depth is 24!
Now save and close the file.
Now on to the second part- install XGL.
I pretty sure this line will do it:
sudo apt-get install compiz xserver-xgl libgl1-mesa xserver-xorg libglitz-glx1 compiz-gnome
Thats pretty easy. Next step is the making it start when Gnome starts.
First a command:
sudo gedit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom
Make it look JUST like this. Delete all thats in the file and paste in all I have posted:
# GDM Configuration Customization file.
#
# This file is the appropriate place for specifying your customizations to the
# GDM configuration. If you run gdmsetup, it will automatically edit this
# file for you and will cause the daemon and any running GDM GUI programs to
# automatically update with the new configuration. Not all configuration
# options are supported by gdmsetup, so to modify some values it may be
# necessary to modify this file directly by hand.
#
# To hand-edit this file, simply add or modify the key=value combination in
# the appropriate section in the template below. Refer to the comments in the
# gdm.conf file for information about each option. Also refer to the reference
# documentation.
#
# If you hand edit a GDM configuration file, you should run the following
# command to get the GDM daemon to notice the change. Any running GDM GUI
# programs will also be notified to update with the new configuration.
#
# gdmflexiserver --command="UPDATE_CONFIG"
#
# For example, the "Enable" key in the "[debug]" section would be specified by
# "debug/Enable".
#
# You can also run gdm-restart or gdm-safe-restart to cause GDM to restart and
# re-read the new configuration settings. You can also restart GDM by sending
# a HUP or USR1 signal to the daemon. HUP behaves like gdm-restart and causes
# any user session started by GDM to exit immediately while USR1 behaves like
# gdm-safe-restart and will wait until all users log out before restarting GDM.
#
# For full reference documentation see the gnome help browser under
# GNOME|System category. You can also find the docs in HTML form on
# http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/
#
# NOTE: Lines that begin with "#" are considered comments.
#
# Have fun!
[daemon]
[security]
[xdmcp]
[gui]
[greeter]
[chooser]
[debug]
[servers]# Override display 1 to use Xgl (DISPLAY 1 IMPORTANT FOR ATI FGLRX).
0=Xgl
[server-Xgl]
name=Xgl server
command=/usr/bin/Xgl :0 -fullscreen -ac -accel glx:pbuffer -accel xv:fbo
flexible=true
That has a special line that which works best for Nvidia cards- this might solve acceleration issues some people have!
Time for the last step: make compiz work! This part will work for ATI users as well.
First this command:
sudo gedit /usr/bin/thefuture
An empty file should appear. Fill it with this:
#!/bin/bash
gnome-window-decorator & compiz --replace gconf decoration wobbly fade minimize cube rotate zoom scale move resize place switcher &
Now save the file. Now use this command:
sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/thefuture
leave that for a few mins i.e go make a cuppa then reboot After login in GDM, open a terminal and enter this:
xmodmap /usr/share/xmodmap/xmodmap.
replacing your country code for language. For US English I use this command:
xmodmap /usr/share/xmodmap/xmodmap.us
i did this on my box even though i live in the uk as i just dont know the link for a uk keyboard layout a us layout aint too hard to work round on a uk keyboard
Now put this command in the terminal to get compiz love:
thefuture
That should make compiz start working. If not, just keep using that command (maybe up to 20 times) till it does work. If you have problems, its tough as im still a complete linux noob lol.
Try it out. Here are the basic key commands:
CTRL + ALT + Left/right arrow key. Switches to the new side of the cube for me.
CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + Left/Right arrow key- Takes the in focused app around cube.
CTRL + ALT + Left Click on Desktop - allows you to use the mouse to rotate cube.
F12 - uses the Expose like trick
any other problems then check this post http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=131267
i rekon thats my first ever linux tutorial may it be the first of many CRASH!!!(champange bottle breaks on the side of my tower) sorry no crashes it's linux
hope this works again and if by anychance youve tried this let me know how you find the tut.
although i can't get the opacity plugin working it does work good, heres a little screencast i did showing a few of the features of xgl,compiz.
http://www.jamesgregson.clara.net/xgl.avi
i think this uses a indeo codec but easily plays using vlc player
and here is the pieced together guide's i used
a clean install of ubuntu 5.10 helps methinks and this guide is for nvidia cards only
Step one
Let's add dapper sources to apt. If you are one of the lucky ones already running it, skip to the next step. Otherwise, just throw this line in /etc/apt/sources.list/
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main universe restricted multiverse
apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade, and you're good to go. As has been mentioned in some feedback, this can take a long time, especially for those without very fast connections.
this is a recommended way to do this.
I assume you have installed the newest Nvidia driver from the repositories if not get it with this command
sudo apt-get install nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-glx
Now lets edit some xorg.conf. First thing is to open it with this command:
sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Find the “Module” section. Comment out the “Glcore” and “dri “ modules and make sure a “glx” module is there. So basically like this:
# Load "GLcore"
# Load "dri"
Load "glx"
Now find the “Devices” section.
Change every line but the “Identifier” line to look just like mine:
Section "Device"
Identifier- leave this line alone!
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
EndSection
IF LATER ON COMPIZ DOES NOT WORK FOR YOU (and complains about composite extension):
Add this to the very bottom:
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
DON'T ADD IT OTHERWISE
VERY IMPORTANT:
Make sure your default color depth is 24!
Now save and close the file.
Now on to the second part- install XGL.
I pretty sure this line will do it:
sudo apt-get install compiz xserver-xgl libgl1-mesa xserver-xorg libglitz-glx1 compiz-gnome
Thats pretty easy. Next step is the making it start when Gnome starts.
First a command:
sudo gedit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom
Make it look JUST like this. Delete all thats in the file and paste in all I have posted:
# GDM Configuration Customization file.
#
# This file is the appropriate place for specifying your customizations to the
# GDM configuration. If you run gdmsetup, it will automatically edit this
# file for you and will cause the daemon and any running GDM GUI programs to
# automatically update with the new configuration. Not all configuration
# options are supported by gdmsetup, so to modify some values it may be
# necessary to modify this file directly by hand.
#
# To hand-edit this file, simply add or modify the key=value combination in
# the appropriate section in the template below. Refer to the comments in the
# gdm.conf file for information about each option. Also refer to the reference
# documentation.
#
# If you hand edit a GDM configuration file, you should run the following
# command to get the GDM daemon to notice the change. Any running GDM GUI
# programs will also be notified to update with the new configuration.
#
# gdmflexiserver --command="UPDATE_CONFIG
#
# For example, the "Enable" key in the "[debug]" section would be specified by
# "debug/Enable".
#
# You can also run gdm-restart or gdm-safe-restart to cause GDM to restart and
# re-read the new configuration settings. You can also restart GDM by sending
# a HUP or USR1 signal to the daemon. HUP behaves like gdm-restart and causes
# any user session started by GDM to exit immediately while USR1 behaves like
# gdm-safe-restart and will wait until all users log out before restarting GDM.
#
# For full reference documentation see the gnome help browser under
# GNOME|System category. You can also find the docs in HTML form on
# http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/
#
# NOTE: Lines that begin with "#" are considered comments.
#
# Have fun!
[daemon]
[security]
[xdmcp]
[gui]
[greeter]
[chooser]
[debug]
[servers]# Override display 1 to use Xgl (DISPLAY 1 IMPORTANT FOR ATI FGLRX).
0=Xgl
[server-Xgl]
name=Xgl server
command=/usr/bin/Xgl :0 -fullscreen -ac -accel glx:pbuffer -accel xv:fbo
flexible=true
That has a special line that which works best for Nvidia cards- this might solve acceleration issues some people have!
Time for the last step: make compiz work! This part will work for ATI users as well.
First this command:
sudo gedit /usr/bin/thefuture
An empty file should appear. Fill it with this:
#!/bin/bash
gnome-window-decorator & compiz --replace gconf decoration wobbly fade minimize cube rotate zoom scale move resize place switcher &
Now save the file. Now use this command:
sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/thefuture
leave that for a few mins i.e go make a cuppa then reboot After login in GDM, open a terminal and enter this:
xmodmap /usr/share/xmodmap/xmodmap.
replacing your country code for language. For US English I use this command:
xmodmap /usr/share/xmodmap/xmodmap.us
i did this on my box even though i live in the uk as i just dont know the link for a uk keyboard layout a us layout aint too hard to work round on a uk keyboard
Now put this command in the terminal to get compiz love:
thefuture
That should make compiz start working. If not, just keep using that command (maybe up to 20 times) till it does work. If you have problems, its tough as im still a complete linux noob lol.
Try it out. Here are the basic key commands:
CTRL + ALT + Left/right arrow key. Switches to the new side of the cube for me.
CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + Left/Right arrow key- Takes the in focused app around cube.
CTRL + ALT + Left Click on Desktop - allows you to use the mouse to rotate cube.
F12 - uses the Expose like trick
any other problems then check this post http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=131267
i rekon thats my first ever linux tutorial may it be the first of many CRASH!!!(champange bottle breaks on the side of my tower) sorry no crashes it's linux
hope this works again and if by anychance youve tried this let me know how you find the tut.
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Photo Site
Hmmmm since i have a blog i now have a photo site also
TBH its only for the benefit of my mom to get some pics of my son since she got me a camera :) so theres no need for her to download pics shes not keen on....flickr looks ok and works ok but i'll definetly change it if i hit problems
site here http://www.flickr.com/photos/52766588@N00/
TBH its only for the benefit of my mom to get some pics of my son since she got me a camera :) so theres no need for her to download pics shes not keen on....flickr looks ok and works ok but i'll definetly change it if i hit problems
site here http://www.flickr.com/photos/52766588@N00/
XGL,Compiz,Ubuntu
How badass does this look, yep thats a desktop 4 way cube rotation for different workspaces twill be interesting to see how it handle 6 spaces, Theres a vid here thanks to analogue40 http://osvids.com/files/page3-1036-pop.html
is this the shape of things to come and will vista blow it away or the other way round
I've also read some interesting stuff lately and linux is certainly gaining in popularity as everyday user start to realise bill gates has em in his pockets.
anyways just need to find time to get this up n running with my limited linux knowledge using this guide http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=127090
hope my g-card takes it well :0
wasteland
Finally got some interesting games at last Tony hawks american wasteland and battlefield 2,
THAW is definetly the dogs dangly bits out of all the THPS series especially since it has the option to play as Tony T but also has some great levels such as kyoto but also has some old school levels (i thought they'd already done that)and easy multiplayer access!!
The sound track is also top notch again with namely the frank black tune 'los angeles'
BF2 not much i can say....great multiplayer interactivity with more guns n cars to shake a stick at although you need to pay for extra maps which sucks.
BF2 has rankings and medals of honour as with the real army just for extra fun and addictiveness........I've now reached sargeant and havent played it since, but the summer months are here so who needs gamez
THAW is definetly the dogs dangly bits out of all the THPS series especially since it has the option to play as Tony T but also has some great levels such as kyoto but also has some old school levels (i thought they'd already done that)and easy multiplayer access!!
The sound track is also top notch again with namely the frank black tune 'los angeles'
BF2 not much i can say....great multiplayer interactivity with more guns n cars to shake a stick at although you need to pay for extra maps which sucks.
BF2 has rankings and medals of honour as with the real army just for extra fun and addictiveness........I've now reached sargeant and havent played it since, but the summer months are here so who needs gamez
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
useful commands etc
df -h = ls disk space
-h = human readable
ls -al
quick tip:-to add extra repositries edit etc/apt/sources.list
feel free to add!
-h = human readable
ls -al
quick tip:-to add extra repositries edit etc/apt/sources.list
feel free to add!
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
linux game installs
most games come with an installer which when placed in the home folder runs from terminal
i.e. sudo sh (filename).run
which adds the installer generally to usr/local/games/(gamename)/base
the pk files from the game cd then need to be copied to this folder but not overwriting and files created by the installer
most file/game instructions i come across online just don't make sense to me lol
i.e. sudo sh (filename).run
which adds the installer generally to usr/local/games/(gamename)/base
the pk files from the game cd then need to be copied to this folder but not overwriting and files created by the installer
most file/game instructions i come across online just don't make sense to me lol
Saturday, April 29, 2006
grub boot loader splash
got my boot loader splash back up easy when ya know how eh........but how am i gonna start doing this stuff from memory. lessons? sunderland college ain't too forth coming atm lol
the boot edit link wont't load now typical after i wrote this. it's mad how they do work on ubuntu forums on a weekend when theyre most needed? ho hum
the boot edit link wont't load now typical after i wrote this. it's mad how they do work on ubuntu forums on a weekend when theyre most needed? ho hum
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