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March 21, 2008 by graham
Hardy har har
I'm – to use an American expression – jonesing to install Ubuntu 8.04 (The Hardy Heron) Beta, which has just been released (massive props to the distro team for their typically herculean effort). And this time it's going to be a full install, not an upgrade. See, when I upgraded to Gutsy during its Beta [...]Archive
February 28, 2008 by graham
Ubuntu: storming your brain
As has by now been announced more-or-less left, right, center, top, bottom and everywhere else in the universe, Ubuntu Brainstorm went live today. The idea behind Brainstorm is pretty simple and yet immensely powerful. It offers a place for Ubuntu users to post their ideas about how Ubuntu can be improved: new features, tweaks… just [...]Archive
January 4, 2008 by graham
Can someone please send me some carrier pigeons?
January, friends. When resolutions are held (for a while at least), healthy food is eaten, chocolate lays about the place unbought and unwanted and when, naturally, our DSL connection degrades in a manner that can only be described as slovenly and untidy. High winds wreak havoc on our connection speeds. I don't know yet if [...]Archive
December 24, 2007 by graham
‘Twas the night before
It's almost ominously quiet in my office right now. Normally there'd be the low, rattling hum of my PC filling the room, masking all the little creaks and burps that the hot water tank, which sits, fenced off in a cupboard in the corner of this fairly tiny work space, makes all through the day [...]Archive
November 30, 2007 by graham
Another petition for you
Another link to another petition for you, this time via BoingBoing (link) and the Open Rights Group: We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to abandon plans to create the Information Sharing Index, a national database of all children aged between birth and eighteen. You can find the petion at petitions.pm.gov.uk as usual. Right, that's [...]Archive
August 13, 2007 by graham
Servermachine bilong Graham gone buggerup
RAID5 is quite reliable as disk arrays go. So I can understand why having two disks in a five-disk array fail on Thursday morning took my hosts, Servelocity, somewhat by surprise. Which is the quick way of saying exactly what happened to the site over the last four-and-a-bit days. There, that was painless, wasn't it? [...]Archive
August 13, 2007 by graham
Oh look, a website!
Massive server outage over the weekend, will explain later. At the moment I'm just glad to see that nothing important is borked.Archive
August 7, 2007 by graham
Dell and Ubuntu, sitting in a tree, etc.
The news just came through that Dell have officially unveiled two systems available in Europe (including the UK) with Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) installed on them. This is very cool, and represents another step along the road to fixing bug #1. From the press release (ubuntu.com): Dell today unveiled two consumer PCs in Europe – the [...]Archive
June 20, 2007 by graham