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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
August 4, 2006 by graham
Ubuntu for Christians
You will, I’m sure, be aware that I’m a big fan of Ubuntu Linux. It’s replaced Windows on all my machines and, gaming aside (which I don’t do much of anyway) is, for me at least, an infinitely better operating system than Microsoft’s offering. One of the great things about Open Source Software is that [...]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
May 20, 2006 by graham
Bad Blocks
Looks like the great hard disk problem of ’06 is due to some bad blocks that my hard drive, not having been fscked in a while, didn’t know about and so couldn’t avoid. I’m running e2fsck -c now to update the list. Once that’s done I should have a healthy partition again (I might also [...]Archive
May 20, 2006 by graham
The best laid plans
Well I was going to go to Caffe Nero and write, but as always life has a habit of jumping in to spoil the best laid plans, so instead I’m going to be considering my options with regard to hard disks after my / partition got mounted read only because of errors and fscking it [...]Archive
May 17, 2006 by graham
Okay, let’s see now
Whether or not I’m about to break my PC. Having installed Dapper on the laptop for the sake of compatibility, speed and, dare I say it, my desire to have everything all shiny and new, I’m upgrading from Breezy to Dapper on my main desktop system. If it all fails then I have a backup [...]Archive
May 16, 2006 by graham
Well-read
Have I really read all the books in Amazon’s catalogue? Well of course not, nor am I ever likely to, but Amazon’s front page seems to give the impression that I have because all it’s listing as things I might be interested in are… books that I’ve already bought. From them. They also seem to [...]Archive
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December 17, 2005 by graham