About
There is no way that I could sum up myself in a couple of paragraphs so I won’t even try. So I’ll try and go at these things from a different angle than usual. Aside from 5′6 and 25 years of age; I have a very diverse level of interests.
I am a self confessed geek and most would say I should get out more, but in actual fact I love being in the outdoors too: walking, drawing, painting and writing–four of my favourite past times. I have travelled a fair bit around the world but also know my own country (England) pretty well too given there are few parts of it that I haven’t been to.
I’m a deeply sensitive person despite my sometimes overt appearances; but again I’m not hiding myself behind a confident ‘mad’ exterior; I’m just a very enthusiastic person and some might say I go over the top. I don’t, I just feel a lot.
I’m very passionate about many things, and am lucky to do the work I do (website development), but most of all I really love writing. I have a quirky style for sure. My favourite authors include Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke, John Clellon Holme, William S Burroughs (I’m hugely into the Beats), Hunter S Thompson, Will Self, JG Ballard but most of all, Jack Kerouac.
I’ve done lots of things before now including (but not limited to) freelance writing, working for Apple (retail), childcare, cleaning, database design and a whole lot more. I have a BA Honours degree in Geography which was a very interesting degree, certainly informed me a lot about what I write about in terms of space and people and interactions/transactions between. And you thought it was all rocks on a windswept wet beach with the waft of saline ether on a November day!
I live in South East England in Worthing.
Hi I need your WLAN howto . The guys from the TP list sent me as below
Oliver
A former list regular (Victoria Lamburn) once wrote a guide for
installing a card and antenna in a non-wireless T23. She probably still
has a copy archived somewhere. You could email her and see; her blog is
http://lilserenity.wordpress.com/, you can get contact her through that.
Just tell her the TP list sent you.
David
Oliver
October 9, 2007 at 11:48 am
You were mentioned on the Thinkpad Mailing List this morning, which made me wonder about you and to which part of the earth you disappeared.
Do you no longer do Thinkpads.
Do you have your old files about setting up Wireless in an old T-23… as I am having turrible trouble… as are others.
Come to Arizona and be our Geek. There is nothing in Worthing that a bit of dust and sand and 110 degree temperatures could not cure.
I live next to the Mexican border, south of Tucson… but my roots are in Shropshire and Bristol.
Ray Bayles
October 9, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Ray,
Will Tucson (or thereabouts) solve a heavy workload?
Maybe I could work from home, that could work! None the less as inviting as roasting in 110 degrees sounds (and I’ve done that in South Dakota a couple of years back!) I’ll stick with wet, windy, cold… Actually when’s the next flight hehe!
I’ll see what I can find but I lost a lot of previous documents a long time ago so I shall see what I can do and post it online if I come across it.
It’s quite simple really, get the Modem/Wireless combo card and two antenna and take the keyboard and palmrest up and find two suitable spots in the lower chassis for the antenna heads to sit and bingo, all done. Signal is good, I recall getting good signal up to about 100ft away from the wireless access point so having them in the base rather than the screen isn’t the end of the world and it’s very neat.
I’ll see if I can find the guide though, Thanks for your message.
Vicky
lilserenity
October 14, 2007 at 9:34 pm
Oliver,
I shall try to find it and email you it if I find it, also see my reply to Ray, as that has some details in it.
Thanks,
Vicky
lilserenity
October 14, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Hi Vicky
)
What a surprise to find you in the Ubuntu community
I know you from the Thinkpad community
Very very intersting for me, as a Ubuntu newbie, is your article about Xrandr and how you set your ATI Radeon 7500: Cool lady !!!
I am struggling with my correct settings and got an enlighting
May I suggest you to link with Alberto Milone regarding the GUI !?
He has Urandr already !!
It would be really a good help for all the ATI Radeon 7500 TP Ubuntu newbies !!!
Still in UK ? Or in US ?? Or already elsewhere ???
Wherever: Wishing you the best whatever you do and
very happy to have you contributing so well !!!
Best regards, svobi
PS:
My system already contains over 10 xorg.conf ;-(
Would like to clean but insecure how to do best ;-|
Could you send me your xorg.conf to compare / use ??
TIA once again and more
Albert Martin S aka svobi
October 29, 2007 at 12:16 am
Heya Svobi! Long time no hear or something,
Yeah you find me skulking around all sorts of places
I’m still on the Thinkpad forums online but no longer on the mailing list, apart from my blog here I don’t do a great deal of stuff online these days as it boils down to time but hopefully what i get online here makes up for it!
Glad you found the xrandr stuff useful, that’s the exact reason I wrote it as my T40 with Radeon 7500 was well, it worked but it was a bit of a hack for TV output. But now all is fine and dandy
I have heard of Alberto’s Urandr and already posted some feedback to him, his tool is good for on the fly changes but he’s not looking to save the changes into xorg.conf so maybe there’s some scope still for me to do that.
I’m due to start writing my Gutsy install guide for the t40 like I did for Feisty (it’s on here somewhere, click on Ubuntu Zone at the top) and this will include all about this for beginners too.
I’m in the UK still, never did move to the USA–maybe one day, maybe some other place, who knows.
I still get to go on my mad travels though so it’s all good.
Glad this is all useful! Subscribe to the RSS feed and then you’ll see my posts, I’m sure there’ll be more useful stuff and other nonsense like Peter Serafinowicz YouTube postings.
The best way to get a clean xorg.conf is:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
Just remember to add your Virtual line back in as per the Xrandr stuff. Also have you seen the script I wrote which has a good way to detect the current displays connected and cycle through them like you would on Windows. It does, LCD->VGA->LCD+VGA Mirror->LCD + VGA Extend->LCD and so forth.
Thanks and good to hear from you
Vicky
lilserenity
October 29, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Hi Vicky,
I had the same trouble like you getting Gutsy and my T40 to work.
Thank your very much for publishing the solution.
I have the same opinion like you that these ugly bugs on an installation CD ruin the idea of “LINUX – it works” in the public.
Again, thank you very much vor delivering this highly informative blog to us.
Keep on this good job !
Yours sincerely
Gregor
Gregor
October 30, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Hiya Gregor,
Glad this has been of good use to you
I think the honest approach rather than parading around blindly shouting Linux is great is the best way to improve the operating system for everybody; regardless of market share or other factors,
Vicky
lilserenity
November 3, 2007 at 6:47 pm
Hi Victoria,
I found your name in a thread searching for upgrading a thinkpad T23 without wifi. There is a reference to a guide you wrote a long time ago and was wondering if you still had it. I know you said in a reply above that you need to find it.
If you don’t have it, can you at least suggest the h/w needed to do this? Thanks!
Nice blog!
Thanks,
Marck
Marck
June 28, 2008 at 1:45 am
Dear Ms. Lamburn
This is a great blog.
brad
November 2, 2008 at 7:19 am
[...] Victoria J.K. Lamburn, a young Brit shooter, admits to being “a self confessed geek” but, indeed, her outdoor interests belie that claim. She walks, she hikes, she climbs, and she reads Beat literature to boot! That is not geeky, Vicky. Neither is picking up an old Mamiya c330f and using — brace yourself, readers — film (hey, a lot of Mamiya cameras can shoot either film or digital)! All kidding aside, she makes some interesting points about MF format film vs. MF digital, especially in the pocketbook department. And her description of hiking the South Downs Way is both enchanting and instructional. Enjoy. [...]
On The Road…Again | Mamiya Blog
February 4, 2009 at 6:59 pm
Hello Again.
You open to a bit of a critique of your photography work?
brad
July 1, 2009 at 4:04 am
Brad,
Always, any views and crticisms that can enlighten me about weaknesses in my work are welcomed!
Vicky
July 1, 2009 at 7:10 am