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Ramblings / April 6, 2007 / John / 0
It’s a public holiday and I’m the only one in the department, so I’m taking the opportunity to indulge myself a little. It is Good Friday, after all, so only right that I should be listening to my favourite bit of music ever – Parsifal by Richard Wagner (Knap, natch). As an added bonus, Wagner’s
Ramblings / March 26, 2007 / John / 0
….I’m mucking about with templates – things may go briefly awry.
Ramblings / March 19, 2007 / John / 0
No way! Nelefa.org has a pointless forum! It’s so called because I have no need whatsoever of a forum, but it’s fun nonetheless and is something cool to play with on a cold Spring morning. It’s linked from up the top there, so feel free to pop over, sign up, and join the surging crowds
Ramblings / March 18, 2007 / John / 0
This is just shocking! I’m being accused of being a Microsofty from all quarters and it’s just plain wrong and evil! So, without further ado, the defence presents exhibit A: my mail and news programs. Ok, I’ll admit that SLRN is a bit of a cop-out, but it has some nice things that tin just
Ramblings / March 18, 2007 / John / 5
Apparently, our Red thinks my Desktop looks like Windoze. Anyone else agree? 🙂 He thinks I have a “Start Menu”. I think we all need to drop Mr Red a note to ask what that little menu on the top right of his Mac Desktop is for 😉
Ramblings / March 17, 2007 / John / 3
After years of running Gnome at home and KDE at work, I’ve finally done a switcheroo and changed my home desktop. With version 3.5.5 (what I’m running with Ubuntu Edgy), it’s finally getting to be rather a nice desktop environment. As it comes, it can be a bit sluggish at times, but turning down the
Game Diary, Ramblings / March 16, 2007 / John / 0
Just spotted this story on UK resistance – apparently, Game are so desperate to sell at least one PS3 on launch day that they’re, well, making things up. Read for yourself: Game’s mind-control experiments.
Ramblings / March 16, 2007 / John / 5
This is George, at work. Eight (count-em) 2.8GHz CPUs (not counting the three machines at the top), Forty Gigabytes of RAM, an 8 Gigabyte Solid State Disk (for the logs) and an insanely huge RAID-10 disk array at the bottom, attached via a dedicated fibre channel switch. All to run a database. On Windows. It’s
Ramblings / March 13, 2007 / John / 0
So, I was having a look through my web activity stats (as you do) to see why I’d had a sudden upsurge in traffic over the past few weeks. Imagine my complete surprise to discover that it’s because Microsoft are crap programmers! Who knew? So, my site – being largely content based – tends to
The Tube / March 10, 2007 / John / 3
I don’t know where to start. I really don’t. I think I need to make an assumption, really. If you watched Shaun of the Dead and thought that (a) it was really stupid and (b) that that was a bad thing, then you’re not going to enjoy Hot Fuzz. It’s another ACEBEST stupid-fest by Simon