Advertising…
I do sometimes wonder about car companies. They're now saddled with a glut of absurdly gigantic models no-one wants to buy. Hence the advertising campaigns. Honda's big idea to sell its cavernous Pilot model? A series of ads depicting one or two people driving around in the thing. They come across a ...
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July 17, 2008
Fiddlesticks. You all don’t exist any more.
Well, that's what I get for being a lazy boy. I didn't update from Wordpress 2.5 to 2.5.1 - something else kept coming up - and I think the site got compromised (thanks to my sister for alerting me). So I've spent this morning building an entirely new webserver VM and ...
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July 9, 2008
Review of Flash in The Register
I was happy to be able to get a review of the new 2008 Spring Flash into The Register, one of the biggest U.K. tech news sites - sometimes writing lots of nitpicking letters to journalists pays off, who knew :). Of course, it was good that their reviewer liked ...
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June 20, 2008
They’re multiplying…
I really don't know what it is about being a geek - systems just seem to multiply. I realized today that since I upgraded my HTPC, I actually had an entire system in parts lying around the house; the old motherboard and CPU from the HTPC, plus a hard disk ...
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June 3, 2008
More sync work, interrupted by random insanity
Today I got a small box in the post containing an obsolete iPaq I bought off eBay for 50 bucks. I'm expecting another one next week. These are my Windows Mobile 2002 and 2003 test devices, to allow me to get Mandriva's WM2002/2003 sync support into line with the WM5+ ...
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May 30, 2008
Upgrade
Today I was upgrading my HTPC, which turned into a predictably painful experience. I'm upgrading from an Athlon XP 2500+ to a Pentium D 2180, adding a spiffy GeForce 9600GT, and three 500GB hard disks to form a RAID5 array. So I get all the stuff home and realize the motherboard ...
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May 6, 2008
Hate to whine, but…
Yes, well, it's not nice to whine, but...check this out. That's the most important news in the Linux world from the last week, according to Slashdot. Notice anything missing, perhaps? Yep, according to Slashdot, a preview release of Granular Linux, a vague Gartner report on the future of open source, Red Hat ...
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April 14, 2008
Personal milestone
So, sod major new distribution releases and anniversaries and all that malarkey - I hit a far more important milestone yesterday: 08 70 X X 9/ 7/ X X X 72 186 boo yah. next stop, 200!
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April 10, 2008
Busy times and browsers
Some of you probably noticed I haven't been around as much as usual this week. Been doing some major furniture rearrangement here at Monkey Central, so now I have my own desk in a corner of the living room and my feet aren't being warmed by the rear vent of ...
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February 1, 2008
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