My build of wget is now woefully out of date. You’re encouraged to look at https://eternallybored.org/misc/wget/ for a more up to date version.
Having laboured over this for the past day, I thought I’d post this here.
It’s the AMD64 port of wget – it should run on Windows x64 Professional (Intel or AMD architecture) as well as the Windows Server 2003 64 bit versions.
Be warned however, this doesn’t contain the SSL libraries so will not work against https sites.
I went to cheer on my friends at the London Triathlon yesterday – the added bonus of (some) pretty boyz in wetsuits and lycra was a happy coincidence though!
This evening, my boyfriend had pasta with finely sliced black truffle. To me it smelt like petrol, but the texture was very odd as I risked life and limb in using the mandolin to slice it up.
This tiny pile cost the best part of £5, but apparently didn’t taste all that nice. Perhaps he should save up for the ludicrously tasty fresh variety…
Another quick recipe for you, a rather splendid spiced Moroccan lamb – alter the quantity of harissa depending on how much of a sadist you are.
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Sauté off the lamb in a pan with a little olive oil. Dry roast the cumin seeds in a small skillet over a high flame.
Once the lamb has browned, add the apricots, dates, orange and lemon zest. Add a small quantity of water (50-100ml) along with the roasted cumin seeds.
Stir in the harissa – if you’re a pussy like me, you’ll need ¼tsp only; if you have no tastebuds like my boyfriend a whole teaspoon will do.
Let simmer for 10 minutes or so, stir in the chopped mint and serve with couscous.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Cisco struggles to plug net leak
Was I the only one that thought this headline implied some sort of slow trickling of water into (or out of) a router or something? That would be pretty bad…
Pierre Marcolini have their shop (they call it a Boutique, Daaaahling) just up the road from us on Kensington High Street, so it would have been chirlish not to visit them and purchase some of their wares.
It’s really not cheap – £25 for 250gr of little chocolates, however the flavours are broadly worth it. My favourites? Violettes and Jasmine Tea infusion. I’ll be back for more!
There’s been a bit of pruning up in my gallery – all my original work is still there, just some of the rather crappy picture of celebs have gone.
It’s now been four months to the day that I had my piercing done.
Not a great to remark upon since the last time I posted about it, last week was a little uncomfortable; a bit of encrustation (eugh) that took a few days to fix, but all sorted now.
I did say that I’d leave it until the four month mark before trying to stretch up again, but after last week’s little set back I think I may want to leave it a little longer. The piercing is still quite tight, and I think that the stretch would do some damage and set me back a bit.
Until 5 months then!
Well, I have to admit at least I’m getting replies from Belkin, but I’m not really getting anywhere.
As a précis, it seems that the router cannot support full sized Ethernet MTUs (1500) in 802.11b mode. 802.11n seems to work fine with standard MTU sizes – I haven’t yet tried the 802.11g mode.
If anyone can decipher the latest reply, a small prize will be yours – or rather, if you can tell me that they’re not talking absolute rubbish:
Alex, the MTU is nothing but the Maximum Transmission unit which is used for the rate of data transfer. Usually most of the ISP’s or the programs use the MTU as 1400 by default. If a particular pc has issue in transferring files or connecting to some websites, this might be the issue with the MTU settings on the router/computer, since there is no proper data transfer.
In your issue, the Pre N card works fine even without changing the MTU size (before changing the MTU). So the issue is only with the non-Belkin wireless cards which are running at 11 mbps speed. May be this wireless card is not able to transfer the files when MTU is set to 1500 but at the same time the pre N card works at 1500. So the MTU depends upon the computer. Some computers work at 1400 and the other at 1500 and third may be at 1100.
Apparently, they’re passing it onto their research team to investigate, but I don’t hold out much hope (although I said that about getting any sort of reply). You will, of course, be the first to know when I do.
This is where I work – that shabby white hut purched atop the roof of another building in the centre.
It seemed to feature quite highly on a program last night about an ex-colleague called Babar Ahmad, called "The New Al-Qaeda". It was complete with reconstructions of Babar and my boss – fairly poor ones though.
It was rather full of hyperbole – Babar really didn’t work with "powerful" computers, unless you count a 4 year-old Pentium III desktop as powerful (which it isn’t).
Anyway, a little bit of excitement in the evening.
