tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61522472024-03-08T04:52:53.488+00:00FlatlandComputers, art, self-build homes, technology...Pete Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11250691825194396531noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152247.post-1118325470794517452005-06-09T14:57:00.000+01:002005-06-09T14:57:50.836+01:00Tom's Hardware Guide: Tom's Hard News
Orlando (FL) - The command line interface to the Windows Server OS will be changed to the new Monad Shell (MSH), in a phased implementation to take place over the next three to five years. This confirmation comes from Microsoft senior vice president Bob Muglia in an interview published today by Microsoft.
"Today's announcement is the first confirmation Pete Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11250691825194396531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152247.post-1114087922871385682005-04-21T13:52:00.000+01:002005-04-21T13:52:02.870+01:002005 Southbank-Bristol Arts Trail
Well the web site is there now but its a bit static and only has a couple of pages, so I dont know where the money has gone to that we all paid in. But at least there is up-to-date information there now.Pete Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11250691825194396531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152247.post-1102939350847058022004-12-13T13:01:00.000+00:002004-12-13T12:04:48.440+00:00Moving from a Photo to a Drawing - Initial Sketch
I have been working out what need to be done to a sketch or photo to turn it into a finished drawing, and that is available here. Pete Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11250691825194396531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152247.post-1102018093110790772004-12-02T20:08:00.000+00:002004-12-02T20:15:16.163+00:00PeteHaus: "How do you Draw a Picture? Planning!
Well, how do I draw a picture? Well, a good picture comes from careful planning. Whether it's a Japanese style drawing, or a more formal pen and ink drawing, planning is definitely the key. For me, that means photos. And lots of them - so its a good idea to invest in a digital camera."
I have put an article on PeteHaus on how I start to plan a Pete Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11250691825194396531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152247.post-1101208401711694182004-11-23T10:37:00.000+00:002004-11-23T11:13:38.770+00:00Its Time to Fight Back - Just Say No To Linux!
I have come to that point where it just has to be said. I have tried Linux, I really, really have. I have wanted it to work so much, so, so, much. I have played around with it since 1994, I really have given it a good go. And I've had enough. It is just not doing it - work that is. I firmly believe that Linux is the Emperor's new clothes. The EmperorPete Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11250691825194396531noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152247.post-1101206030489349942004-11-23T10:24:00.000+00:002004-11-23T10:33:50.490+00:00The Microsoft European MIIS User Group Meeting 2004
I am going to the above named user group meeting at the Microsoft Campus in Reading here in the UK tomorrow. We use MIIS (Microsoft Identity Information Server) 2003 here at UWE to manage creation of user accounts on all main systems, and are in the process of moving all of the other systems to MIIS over the next two years. It has been a steep Pete Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11250691825194396531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152247.post-1101203312864851082004-11-23T09:41:00.000+00:002004-11-23T09:48:32.866+00:00Microsft Bashing - NOT!
There are those who have said to me lately that I was a bit harsh on Microsoft in the last post. Well, to put the record straight, I am definately NOT a Microsoft hater. Sure there are some things that it could do to improve its image, and sometimes it makes mistakes, but on the whole I like the products that Microsoft are producing right now. I don't think most people arePete Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11250691825194396531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152247.post-1098964512613938812004-10-28T11:20:00.000+01:002004-10-28T12:55:12.613+01:00Making Money from Computing in the Post-Microsoft Age
By 2004 the Internet (or more correctly "The Web") has become a very important part of everyday life, at least for those of us in developed countries. This explosion of connectivity would never have been possible without the PC, which has become indispensible for practically every business and home. It seems that computers are everywhere. HavePete Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11250691825194396531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152247.post-1098382833628206852004-10-21T18:35:00.000+01:002004-10-21T19:21:01.013+01:00Natural Elements
In an earlier article I looked at the study of Feng Shui and its relevance to house design. I discussed the compass school and its reliance on measurement and calculation, but now I'm going to talk about the forms schools because I think that it is particularly relevant to finding a plot for a house.
It's quite easy to see how the forms school arose. People would probably Pete Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11250691825194396531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152247.post-1098189211095746752004-10-19T13:29:00.000+01:002004-10-19T13:33:31.096+01:00Relatively Speaking
There is a new website here that is dedicated to family history. Not a lot of content at the moment but I hope to be able to bring it up to speed quite quickly. It should be a general resource for people wishing to research family history rather than a specific family site.
Pete Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11250691825194396531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152247.post-1098102629437986242004-10-18T13:48:00.000+01:002004-10-18T15:09:06.906+01:00Feng Shui of House Design and Layout
The Chinese have used the ancient arts of Feng Shui to help them design and lay out their houses for thousands of years. The words Feng Shui mean "wind, water", and this is the key to using Feng Shui, looking at nature, learning from it - from its shapes and forms - and understanding that you need to work with nature, and not try to artificially "force" Pete Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11250691825194396531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152247.post-1098042300756069302004-10-17T20:28:00.000+01:002004-10-17T20:45:38.126+01:00Have you switched to Firefox yet?
I was interested in how many people have switched to using Mozilla Firefox from Internet Explorer. I switched several months ago, mostly because of the amount of spyware which was invading my machine (from my 15 year old stepson's daily wanders around the Internet). Now my web logs show that more than a third of the people coming to this site are using Firefox. Pete Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11250691825194396531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152247.post-1097924210535476262004-10-16T11:27:00.000+01:002004-10-17T12:25:22.006+01:00Spaces and House Design
We are used to speaking about our homes as a series of rooms - living room, bathroom, kitchen, bedroom and so on. By using these terms, we limit the scope of what we can do in our homes. In the book The New Natural House Book by David Pearson he explores the home in terms of "activities" and "processes" rather than "rooms". He asks to consider instead of thinking "bathroomPete Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11250691825194396531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152247.post-1097871894455965792004-10-15T21:24:00.000+01:002004-10-15T21:24:54.456+01:00PeteHaus: October 2004: "PeteHaus is now open" The dark blog is now here. Be afraid.Pete Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11250691825194396531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152247.post-1097868984183553932004-10-15T20:19:00.000+01:002004-10-15T20:36:24.183+01:00Creative Commons Licence
I have placed everything here unde a creative commons licence, so that you can quote or use anything on this site just as long as you give me credit (I crave glory) and dont use it for commercial gain. Other than that, well - feel free to copy away.
I think that the Creative Commons licence creates a good balance between those who just copyright everything (and in the Pete Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11250691825194396531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152247.post-1097742652716318602004-10-14T09:22:00.000+01:002004-10-14T09:30:52.716+01:00SQL Server 2005 Beta2
Received a copy of SQL Server 2005 Beta2 in the post this morning, plus the resource kit, so will get to work and try it all out today. Saw demos of it while I was at TechEd Europe in Amsterdam earlier this year and I have to say it looked pretty impressive. For me the major benefit will be the integration with CLR (Common Language Runtime) which should enable me for the Pete Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11250691825194396531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152247.post-1097612404962211112004-10-12T21:14:00.000+01:002004-10-18T15:08:38.826+01:00
How to Design and build your own House by Lupe Di Donno
This How to Design and Build Your Own House
is a book that comes highly recommended, even if some of the methods are a bit out of date it is good for working out the initial design of the house, deciding how it is all going to work as a building.
Pete Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11250691825194396531noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152247.post-1097608121248047942004-10-12T19:49:00.000+01:002004-10-12T21:37:27.040+01:00Building your own House
Many people build their own houses these days, and companies are making it easier for us to do so. As I mentioned in an earlier article some companies do complete home-build kits, which take you from getting the money for the mortgage, finding the plot of land, getting planning approval, helping you design the house and getting it put up, through to getting buildings Pete Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11250691825194396531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152247.post-1097573440988217892004-10-12T10:20:00.000+01:002004-10-12T10:30:40.986+01:00Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby Chapter 5
The latest installment of Why's Poingant Guide to Ruby has been released. This is a strange and sometimes disorientating text, which wraps up information about the excellent Ruby programming language in a humorous (cartoons supplied) rambling adventure. Who knows if you can learn anything from it, I was too disturbed by the end to care but still liked it. Pete Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11250691825194396531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152247.post-1097488090848358272004-10-11T10:40:00.000+01:002004-10-12T14:40:34.583+01:00Building my own Home
I am going to build my own home. Not such a mad idea these days! In the UK alone 20,000 new homes were built by self-builders last year. And it's not so much a struggle as you might imagine, there are good kits and home-building companies who will walk you through every step of the process. Companies like Potton Homes are a good place to start to find out more.
My home is Pete Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11250691825194396531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152247.post-1097486880785420422004-10-11T10:28:00.000+01:002004-10-12T09:43:36.470+01:00There is a great site here which has some good pictures of buildings in and around Kyoto. There is also a link to a page of optical illusions, be prepared, some will make you feel sick.Pete Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11250691825194396531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152247.post-1091910570995369302004-08-07T21:28:00.000+01:002004-08-07T21:29:30.996+01:00 New Company - Example: Dyson
The new company when you start isolating out NC values you realise it – you get it if you like – and you start seeing them in all the most unlikely places. You also realise that 100% NC’s are very few and far between, but these are companies which exhibit some of the values and services.
Dyson for example makes a vacuum cleaner. They make an honest vacuum cleaner. Pete Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11250691825194396531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152247.post-1091910488746259672004-08-07T21:27:00.000+01:002004-08-07T21:28:08.746+01:00 Powerpoint and the NC (or NOT)
Envisioning Information is a book that I skim read a few years ago. It is by an author called Edward Tufte. Tufte argues and designs well, he is one of those people who seem to be able to produce art, sculpture, statistics anything – and also talk about it well. Tufte argues that Powerpoint is a modern evil – a tool used badly by lazy people to try to present Pete Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11250691825194396531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152247.post-1091910413090618582004-08-07T21:25:00.000+01:002004-08-07T21:26:53.090+01:00 New Companies (NC's)
“New companies are happy places to work. NC’s are nice to their employees as well as being nice to their customers. They don’t unnecessarily pollute the environment. They don’t produce stuff just for the quick buck. They provide a quality service product. This may sound utopian – and why not? It should serve to improve the human experience, and if it doesn’t – why then, it Pete Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11250691825194396531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152247.post-1091910252425992692004-08-07T21:19:00.000+01:002004-08-07T21:25:18.906+01:00The concept of the “New Company” (NC)
What is a “new company?” Well, they aren’t necessarily new in the sense that they’ve just been formed. They could be quite an old or established company. No – a “new” company is one that thinks and acts in new ways. Just what does that entail?
So what companies are “new” companies? (or businesses)Microsoft (provisionalGoogleInnocent Smoothies LtdApple?The Pete Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11250691825194396531noreply@blogger.com0