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At the Backstrands
On Sunday Jeannie, me sister, and I went to Murvagh beach on a lovely sunny afternoon (or the Backstrands as me Dad used to call it). We spend about 2 hours paddling in the water and walking along the...
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Lenovo Laptop?
I’m thinking of getting a new laptop either the Lenova ThinkPad T400 (which is a replacement for the T61), or the IdeaPad U330 to replace my aging Dell 700m The big thing for me is do they work with...
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But I don’t want a PDF?
WTF is Citibank thinking with their web interface: When I’m looking at my old statements I don’t want to have to wait for a PDF to download, then for Adobe Acrobat to open just so I can briefly look at...
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Debian’s e17 Packages
I thought I’d start looking at using Debian’s experimental E17 packages. I commented out all other E17 repo’s from my source.list and installed the debian e17 package. It installs a minimal amount of...
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I figured it’s time for me to try and install kde4 again! Previously I had to remove KDE4 due to package conflicts. There are installation instructions at:...
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Support Pine Street Inn
Support Boston’s Pine Street Inn this year and buy holidays cards based on a photograph I took: http://www.pinestreetinn.org/news.php?id=343 The photograph also came 24th in the Boston Globe’s 2008...
View ArticleDell Laptops & Ubuntu
I’d heard that Dell were offering Ubuntu Linux on some of their laptops and I hadn’t really looked into it. But I came across this page the other day and it’s pretty neat to get Ubuntu (or any Linux)...
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Netbeans 6.5 on Debian
Doesn’t perform badly, I’ve been using it recently with Ruby code, and I like how it colourises the code to make editing code easier, and performs it auto-completion and method lookup (basically all...
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How to get from one terminal to another at Boston’s Logan Airport
I wrote this up for a friend who is arriving at Boston’s Logan Airport and whom has never been to Boston before. She has to get from Terminal E (Aer Lingus) to Terminal B (US Airways). It’s pretty...
View ArticleAdobe Flash Sound not working with Iceweasel on Debian?
After upgrading to Flash 10 sound stopped working. Installing the flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound package solved that problem for me: aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound If your using pulse...
View ArticleGot a T400
I recently got an Lenovo T400 and this thing works great with the latest version of Ubuntu (Intrepid). To install Ubuntu, you have to make sure you edit the BIOS settings and change the graphics to use...
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First Baptist Church of Boston
I was looking through my Flickr photostream and realised that I’ve taken a fair number of pics of the tower at Boston’s First Baptist Church. It really is a splendid old building: The doorway: From...
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Snow!
Got a tonne of snow about a week ago: It’s still been lying around and slowly thawing and refreezing, and being ground down. Today it snow about 5 inches, and now it’s turned to rain/sleet and it’s a...
View ArticleEnable mod_perl on Debian, Ubuntu, & Other Linuxes.
To enable mod_perl with Apache2 on Debian & Ubuntu for all directories served up by Apache2, including user directories such as ~/public_html, add the following lines to...
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Netbeans 6.5, with Ruby on Rails & JMaki
While writing some RoR code at home (or at least trying to grok the RoR way) I’ve alternating between using Emacs & Netbeans 6.5. Emacs is one true editor to rule them all, but what it’s lacking is...
View ArticleSpam!
Can you believe this: 21,027 spams caught, 65 legitimate comments, and an overall accuracy rate of 100.000%. So this rinky-dink blog has gotten over 21,000 spam comments since July 2007, and 1,723 in...
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Rails for Eclipse!
Aha! There is RoR support for Eclipse, via Aptana. I’ve just installed it and the instructions are a bit cryptic. Basically you have to install Aptana first (you can do this as an Eclipse plug-in)....
View ArticleDuh!
Note to self: Disable the firewalling scripts (that listen on and block port 80) when starting webserver!
View ArticleRAD7.5 on Debian or Ubuntu
If your installing RAD 7.5 (IBM Rational Application Developer) on Debian or Ubuntu, install the libstdc++5 package: apt-get install libstdc++5
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