After starting the year with curses work, I decided to do some more!
Currently we lack Soft Label Key functions as specified by POSIX. What are these? Glad you asked! Soft Label Keys ripoff a line from the bottom of the screen and allow for up to 8 keys to be displayed there. You can define labels for them, colours, etc.
“BIG WHOOP!" I hear you say. “My app already does this, why should I care?
So over the holidays, I managed to get in some good quality family time and find some time to work on some Open Source stuff. I meant to work mainly on dhcpcd, but it turned out I spent most of my time working on NetBSD curses library so that Python Curses now works with it. Now, most people reading this blog may not care much for NetBSD or for curses, but it’s important because ncurses is used pretty much everywhere by default ….
My brother got me some very tasty presents for Christmas (and my up-coming Birthday), namely the GIGABYTE BRIX J1900 and a Samsung EVO 750 250G. Santa also brought me 8G of Crucial memory. Putting them all together is a nice new machine to install NetBSD Xen! The key part is this is a low end CPU, but critically supports Intel VT-x virtualization technology.
There were some challenges. Firstly, I couldn’t find a way to get into the BIOS.
As I blogged previously about changing ISP, it has finally happened. The engineer who installed it was very friendly, polite and helpful whilst doing professional job. A credit to the company.
From 16/0.6mbs to 200/20mbs thanks to Virgin Media! OK, it’s not quite 200 down, it’s quite variable actually. So far, it’s normally around 150mbs at peak times, compared to my old service which was rock steady. Probably because I was on low contention service so my max available was pretty much guaranteed.
My time with Goscomb Technologies as my ISP is coming to an end. It’s partially their fault, but mainly BT OpenReach.
I’m FTTC connected and I get 14mbs down 0.2mbs up …. on a good day. When I took this service up 3 years ago it was sufficient …. but now it’s now. So what’s changed? Well, my site is getting more traffic (yay!) and I have more devices network connected.
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