Ghost stands for General Hardware Oriented System Transfer. (Obviously a backronym.)

Took Oliver to the vet for his cartrophen injection.  I must remember he needs another one in one months time, around 5th February.

Well sort-of work. I had said I didn’t care how this website looked with Internet Exploder, but when I saw it couldn’t even display the tabs making it impossible to navigate I decided I had to get at least them working. That’s 3 hours gone, but at least the tabs now work.

IE6 is crap to work with, but in the end I discovered just two main problems. One was a supposed workaround which for IE which was much more destructive than helpful and the other was IE didn’t like me limiting the size of the tabs as the text is enlarged. I deleted the work around (I’ve forgotten exactly what it was), and instead of setting height on the tabs I set min-height which IE just ignores.

So now although it may not be pretty, this site should be at least navigable in IE6. But why bother??? Do yourself a favour and get a decent up to date browser like Firefox!

I don’t know if anyone else cares, but the banner will now span any width you stretch it to. The trick is I have a matching background image extending off to the right of the main banner image. It’s not perfectly seamless, but I think it looks nicer than just cutting off the banner at 1680px.

I’m running Fedora 8 with a i686 kernel on my work dev machine, but for some reason Yum is installing i586 kernel modules. I only have two: fuse for NTFS and the nvidia proprietary video driver. I know proprietary drivers are evil, but with the open source nv driver, the video card fan never switches off, and it is LOUD… it’d quickly drive me nuts if I had to work with it going all the time.

It took me a while to realize ATrpms wasn’t giving me corrupt packages. They’re perfectly good modules if you have a i586 kernel. But for me whenever I tried to modprobe them I got error messages like:

FATAL: Error inserting fuse (/lib/modules/2.6.23.9-85.fc8/updates/fs/fuse/fuse.ko): Invalid module format

This doesn’t seem to be a very common problem, maybe I have messed up my yum.conf?

My solution is brutal but effective. I removed all the nvidia driver packages, explicidly installed the i686 version of the driver, and then reinstalled the rest of the nvidia driver stuff. I haven’t done this for fuse yet, but I’m sure the same approach should work there too.

We celebrated the start of the New Year from the top of Rangitoto. Had a good view of the fireworks on the Sky Tower, on Waiheke, and up and down the bays.

Michelle and Brian had done this last year and invited us along for ’08. (Now it is a New Year’s tradition.)

We caught the 3 o’clock ferry to Rangitoto wharf, walked to the campsite at Home Bay on Motutapu set up camp there, before tramping up to the top of Rangitoto. There were a couple of other groups up there, including the woman who handed out Oliebollen yum! There was another group before us who it seemed were planning on camping up there. They’d tried to start a fire up (right next to the boardwalk), but the DoC ranger took them off, and gave us a quick interrogation too.

I have a big blister on my foot (I’m going soft). I’ve made a guess at the distances we walked using Google Earth. I get 36km. Quite a lot of walking.
Wharf -> Home Bay: 9.4km
Home Bay -> Summit: 8.5km
Summit -> Home Bay: 8.5km
Home Bay -> Wharf: 9.6km

It was a great way to mark the New Year.

Photos are over here.