I thought I’d give my unmetered net access a workout by syncing my local copy of slackware-current with the real one. So far I’ve been downloading every night for three days (not 3 days solid, I have to turn my PCs off during the day because of the kitchen man) and I’m up to the n1 diskset. I cheated and downloaded the x1 and xap1 sets at work over ISDN.

I might give GRUB a go. The idea of not having to re-run Lilo every time I change the kernel sounds nice (There’s nothing worse than seeing ‘LI’ on your screen… “Where’s that bootdisk? Oh, I never made one… oops”)

Our kitchen looks nice. It’s got an oven with all sorts of dials and LCD displays on it, and we have cupboards on the walls.

My ongoing ‘fun’ with Planet Talk continues. They have this wonderful policy of referring you to a collection agency if you don’t pay them. They seem to have real problems making direct debits work with my account, so I keep getting interesting letters from collection people. I phoned them and asked for my bills to be paid by cheque. “Sure, I’ll see it is done”. This month’s bill arrived and written on the bottom was:

By being a direct debit customer, the blah blah blah

AAAARGH! I shall phone them tomorrow. It’ll make a nice change to telling telesales people to go away (they’re so rude “What’s your fax number?”. No introduction or anything. I’ve now armed myself
with a caller ID phone and an answering machine. I think for fun I might say “we don’t have a fax machine” to see what they say