Settlers of catan

Yesterday I played Settlers of Catan at jtempere's place. We tried to finish early but the game dragged on until 1!
It is strangely addictive and I suspect that after only 2 games I have not discovered the full range of tactics one can use. Civ is more complex, but there are expansion packs to increase the difficulty for experienced players it seems.
I should do this more!

Found the USB problem

I've been having USB problems with my own kernels recently. Now I found why. If you cannot use your USB memory stick, in my case my Iomega stick with 2.6.* and you get the message "uba: device 9 capacity nsec 0 bsize 512". It could be because you enabled BLK_DEV_UB. If you do the ub driver kicks in and it seems to dislike memory sticks with avengence. The debian images have this disabled already.



Now I only need to find out why my configuration causes the transfer to the PL3507-based 1394 bridge doesn't work my my kernel and does with the debian image. Sigh.