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We all make mistakes

Next time one of your application or websites goes wrong and the users shout at you, take comfort in the knowledge that even Google sometimes Get It Wrong......

VPNC mysteriously broken in Intrepid

Edit: As Michael points out in the comments, Oxford users can avoid the mess below by simply disabling hybrid mode. So there I am, firing up the Advent to re...

Secret Santa Python script

I've just finished a Python script to shuffle the names for Secret Santa and email each participant the name of the person they're giving to. Thus if you're ...

Best advert of 2008?

Spotted this on Farcebook Facebook just now... I'd laugh, but somebody probably sued them when the free pig didn't turn up.

Late nights and LEDs

I've not been sleeping all that well lately. And let's be honest, this probably has something to do with being in the middle of a term at Oxford University, ...

Ubuntu Intrepid on the Advent 4211

I finally got round to putting Linux on my Advent 4211 yesterday. There are various ways and means of doing this; the ones which worked for me were: Use the...

Learning something new every day

Here's one for all you progammers out there: what happens to the values of x and y if you type the following in, say, Python? >>> x = 5 >>>...

RTFM: Python exec()

Do you write Python (not very well?). Ever wondered why your calls to os.execvp() and its ilk don't work as expected? The answer may be that you're doing thi...

New toy: Advent 4211

I bought myself an Advent 4211 last week (you might know it as the MSI Wind; they're essentially the same thing). So far, it's lived up to expectations; ther...