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January 28, 2007 by graham
But sir, ’tis a connection nonetheless
I pay for (upto) 8Mbps broadband. I usually get circa 4.5 – 5Mbps download, 512Kbps – 1Mbps upload. Since we’ve been reconnected (yay!) I’ve had upload speeds of 400-odd Kbps, which is okay, and download speeds of 120Kbps, which is most definitely not. If we assume that in this context 1Kb = 1 kibibyte (i.e. [...]Archive
October 25, 2006 by graham
Living on the Edgy
I’ve just done upgrading my system to Ubuntu 6.10 (The Edgy Eft). So far, so good. None of which has any bearing on anything, but I thought I’d tell you all the same.Archive
September 30, 2006 by graham
A masterful job of muckup
The best laid plans get a spanner in the works. I had meant to do some editing this afternoon, along with a bunch of other bits and pieces. We got back from town at about three, and I figured that I had time to sort out the something that’s been nagging me for a while [...]Archive
September 23, 2006 by graham
The Glue
15 / 333 (4.5%) Someone has poured glue into my head. Whoever they are, I wish they hadn’t, but it’s here to stay for a while and it does not, let me tell you, make life any easier. Editing is out for the time being. I managed to get through two pages of Muse before [...]Archive
September 9, 2006 by graham
T -9 Minutes and Holding
Well, the muse seems to have deserted me today, so it’s back to editing the Muse manuscript instead. I got through a chapter of edits last night – the dramatic bits were okay; it was the bits in between that needed refining – and I’m now at 77 out of 333 pages edited. You can [...]Archive
August 15, 2006 by graham
Just so you know, I might catch fire at some point in the next twenty days
So Dell are recalling about 4 million laptop batteries BBC News. Turns out that my laptop battery is one of the ones that might spontaneously combust, taking me, or at least what are so far as I see it important parts of me, with it. What fun. Apparently I should allow up to twenty days [...]Archive
July 5, 2006 by graham
Not The 9 O’Clock News: Macs are safer than PCs
According to BBC News, experts are advising people to switch to Macs in order to avoid nasty things like viruses and malware. No mention of Linux, of course, which is to be expected; it can be a beast to install and offers even more of a culture shock than a Windows to OSX switch would [...]Archive
June 17, 2006 by graham
Grr
It seems like I lose my website at least once every weekend these days. At first the whole thing goes, then Apache comes back up but MySQL stays down. I might switch webhosts, I think. The renewal on the hosting is coming up in July anyway. I quite fancy the Wesh shared hosting packages. Anyone [...]Archive
May 26, 2006 by graham