The end of the year as we know it
So the turkey is (at least partly) eaten, the mince pies are disappearing fast, the wrapping paper has been picked up off the floor and the presents played w...
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A narrow escape
Let's be honest about this. Looking back, I should have known better. Nevertheless, as I describe the problem that ate far too many hours of my weekend, judg...
Thunderbird in ‘not actually useless’ shocker
I've long been of the opinion that Firefox and Thunderbird are a bit like democracy: aclaimed far and wide as major achievements and bastions of a civilised ...
Spotify on Linux problems?
Dear lazyweb, does anyone else find that Spotify mysteriously hangs at the "logging in" stage when run under Wine? This suddenly happend on both my Linux box...
Ubuntu on the Advent 4211 ready for primetime
Just installed Ubuntu Jaunty fresh onto a new ext4 partition on my Advent 4211 netbook. Am delighted to report that WiFi, suspend and hibernate all work flaw...
We all love miniturization
It's amazing what sort of shrinkage - both in size and price - you can miss if you're not buying in a particular market. Yesterday, out for lunch with some f...
On leaving Slicehost
Just over 18 months ago, I signed up for a 256slice from Slicehost to host this website, my email, etc. Later this week, I shall be shutting the machine down...
Windows XP loses its crown
And Ubuntu gets seven out of ten Last week, it was clear my parents' ageing XP box needed some attention - in fact, let's be honest, it had been crying out f...
Random summary of stuff
I guess I might as well park these here as anywhere else: Some hilarity courtesy of bash.org: #693046, #9214, #105199, #626249, #610952 Funny source code com...
Squeezing a quart of apps into a pint-pot server
Quick tip for anyone like me who's foolish enough to cram Exim4, Spamassasin, Apache with Wordpress running on it, and a pile of other stuff on to a server w...