Monthly Archives: January 2007

Laptop Upgrade

Posted on January 30, 2007 by Chris

I decided to experiment with the cutting edge development version of Ubuntu, feisty fawn by installing it on my laptop. It didn’t go to well at all! The updater bottomed out in style so I tried to use sudo to … Continue reading →

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Greasemonkey Script :: PM Petitions

Posted on January 29, 2007 by Chris

I wrote a simple greasemonkey script to auto fill all the details for the PM Petitions website. Download

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Dude

Posted on January 29, 2007 by Chris

(22:46:48) Me: dude (22:47:00) Dave: dude (23:14:50) Me: dude (23:18:35) Dave: dude (23:18:38) Me: dude (23:18:47) Dave: dude (23:18:52) Me: dude (23:18:55) Dave: dude (23:19:09) Me: dude (23:19:12) Dave: dude (23:19:13) Me: dude (23:19:16) Dave: dude (23:19:19) Me: dude (23:19:21) … Continue reading →

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Examinations are…

Posted on January 25, 2007 by Chris

…finished! Woo! I start my second semester next week, which is bound to be interesting no more artificial intelligence lectures which were boring to the nth degree.

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SVN RSS Feeds

Posted on January 25, 2007 by Chris

How does one go about making a RSS feed from subversion change logs? I asked myself this very question earlier today, and set out to seek an answer. I found points of interest here, and here. Eventually though I came … Continue reading →

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MySQL Quick Admin

Posted on January 25, 2007 by Chris

Its hard to deny that phpMyAdmin is a little slow (being generous) this annoys me when I just want to make a quick change to something in a configuration table and I have to wait 30 seconds for it to … Continue reading →

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Ella

Posted on January 25, 2007 by Chris

As I said earlier I have upgraded my blog here to WordPress 2.1, codenamed ‘Ella’, and I am impressed by the improvements. The categories hierarchy makes sense, I have added a few more categories in to neaten it out a … Continue reading →

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Moved

Posted on January 24, 2007 by Chris

Boo … just in case you didn’t noticed my blog has moved to my own domain cs278.org, I have a Dreamhost plan which I am going to be using for remote backups and web hosting. I will continue to run … Continue reading →

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Disable Screensaver Daemon

Posted on January 21, 2007 by Chris

This little script disables the Gnome power management and screensaver when any listed programme is run, I use it with mplayer.

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Being sued

Posted on January 20, 2007 by Chris

Yup, I am being sued for damages etc. along with the 14 000 other students here at the University of Exeter who are member of the Student’s Guild. Somebody from the Evangelical Christian Union have filed papers at the Hight … Continue reading →

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