Wired in

For the last (I don’t know how many) weeks, I’ve been writing the code for a new internal ordering system for PolkaSpots Supafly Wi-Fi. Having pushed the first release to our staging server, I feel like I’ve been released back to the world.

And, it’s not over yet but I’m through the fog and now we can all test it.

For those of you who develop software, you’ll know the feeling. The ones and zeros start taking over; you dream in code; you start building 3d models and views and controllers in your mind. It becomes an obsession. Nothing else matters.

It would seem the last time I blogged, one month ago, I decided it was a good idea to put a picture of a bike up. Thousands of lines of code certainly sent me a bit nuts. It’s a good bike though isn’t it? And no, it’s not mine!

Ubuntu USB Installation Unknown Keyword Problems

More of a reference for myself. Could happily create an Ubuntu server 10.04 tls USB drive from an Ubuntu 10.10 desktop client but could not get the bugger to boot.

Was stuck with an Unknown Keywork Problem – something to do with:

vesamenu.c32: Not a COM32R image

Thanks to this article, I was able to fix my Ubuntu installation woes by running:

cp -r /usr/lib/syslinux/vesamenu.c32 /media/disk/syslinux/
syslinux /dev/sdb1