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Well, life has a funny way of working. I had planned to take more time, and be more choosy when buying a laptop, but something came up, which meant I had to get one fast. So I plumped for the Acer TravelMate 5720, with 4GB RAM, ordered from eBuyer, w...
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So. The time has come for me to buy a laptop. I want it for coding, development, and various other bits and bobs. And of course, I have no intention of running anything other than Linux on it. I've used an HP for a year or two, and a Dell D620, and I...
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I can hear spacemen. They talk to me. But they don't answer when I talk back. No, I'm not hallucinating. For a long time now, most (if not all) of the astronauts that have gone up into space, to the International Space Station at least have been l...
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It has been said that all of mankind's greatest knowledge is held in sigs. And if it hadn't, it has now. Slashdot is a site that allows users to put a sig at the bottom of their posts - some of these can be funny, ironic, or insightful. My favouri...
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Amateur radio is a pretty cool hobby. You can talk, send data, morse code (YouTube: Is morse faster than SMS?), pictures, or live TV to anyone all around the world. You can do it from your home, car, or using a handheld in a tent on top of a hill. ...
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Every time I hit upon this problem, I curse the person who decided this. If you're not sure of what I am talking about, it's the rule in Linux (and other related OSes) that prevents a non-root user from binding (i.e. setting up a server) on a TCP or ...
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Well, it's time for a good whinge. I used to buy quite a lot of stuff from Amazon. DVDs, CDs, and books. Sometimes I'd "save them all up" into one order, or sometime, I'd just buy one thing, as the mood took me. Then they changed from using the Ro...
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Why is it, when a disaster occurs, that the media often say 30 deaths, among them women and children? Take this, for example: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7167336.stm "at least 30 people were burned to death in a church... Women and ch...
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Prerequisites: * You have a large CD collection. * You work for a decent company that won't begrudge you 64Kb/s *, and doesn't have insanely paranoid firewall policies. * You'd like a nice random selection of your music to listen to at work. * You...
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I'm sure we've all suffered from this at some time. You've got access to a machine on the internet, and a friend of yours has offered to sort out some of your CSS, but a firewall protecting the server blocks his IP? This example uses SSH, but it wil...