jon burrows ^3.0

Well I've finally decided that I have neglected this site and it was about time it was redeveloped. So within the next week I hope a new site will be here.

For Sale.
Yamaha R1 1000cc X Reg in Blue
This is a stunning motorbike, it has never been track raced and almost always ridden in the dry, the few times it hasn't it was sunny on the outward trip and then decided to rain on the way back. (English weather!)

This is a reluctant sale as the bike is an absolute dream to ride.

I will post some pics as soon as I can.
Price £3800 ono

As some of you may have noticed the bot has been up and down over the last week or so. I have been doing some major backend redevelopment of the system with the aim of making it more stable by utilising multiple servers to distribute both the load and also the bandwidth consumed by the bot. It certainly didn't help when the server that was hosting it decided to crash with a hard drive error taking with it the last stable version. Thus I decided to rewrite it again from scratch.

I aim to have the new version fully online within the next week.

For as long as I can remember I have been driven crazy with Windows forcing me to click 'Restart Later' when I am in the middle of a major coding frenzy.

Well it seems someone else was also getting annoyed and has kindly posted his notes on how to remove the screen.

You can read his post here. Craig Boyd

I have been busy these last few weeks, developing an application for my own use, but that I think may be of interest to other people. I will release further details soon, once I am happy that it is more stable.

Jon

Having used Basecamp for project/task management, I would recommend taking a look at activeCollab. It took me a total of 10 minutes to setup.

It has a whole host of features and more are in the pipeline and being developed.

Although it is only in Alpha release, it is a truly remarkable product, and it is free and opensource.

I have now created a new bot address called jabberonlinestatus@jabber.org . This works in the same way as the gtalkonlinestatus bot however it is using the jabber.org gateway instead of Googles. The reason behind this is that the bot keeps getting banned for 24 hrs by Google due to the volume of stanzas that the bot is generating.

There are over 1000 users on the bot and GTALK just can't cope :( I have set up the jabberonlinestatus bot to hopefully overcome this problem.

I am going to be stopping the gtalkonlinestatus bot from accepting any more invites and would be grateful if some of you using the sytem would mind moving over from gtalkonlinestatus to jabberonlinestatus. The system will continue to work in exactly the same way as before.

Regards Jon