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Folding again

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Chris

So after a break of a few years I’ve got back into Folding, this time I’ve started from scratch discarding my old account. As of writing my new account has a score of 37304 more than doubling my previous score … Continue reading →

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Posted on February 18, 2010 by Chris

Well one of my gripes with Ubuntu 9.10 ‘Karmic Koala’ has been cured at least, Firebug 1.5 now works after upgrades to Firefox 3.5.8. Shame that I’ve found out my bash completion is broken.

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N900 Sharing

Posted on February 6, 2010 by Chris

Since my earlier post about sharing photos from the N900 I have discovered Pixelpipe, which includes support for Gallery2 uploads as part of a huge array of supported services. You can read more about Pixelpipe and the N900 here and … Continue reading →

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Sharing photos from N900 to Gallery2

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Chris

I recently treated myself to a new mobile phonecomputer, so I bought a Nokia N900 which eXpansys eventually shipped to me. Now to the point, you can easily share content to Facebook, Ovi, and Flickr but I maintain my own … Continue reading →

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Why do I bother?

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Chris

Updated my desktop from Ubuntu ‘Jaunty’ 9.04 to Ubuntu ‘Karmic’ 9.10, the upgrade process worked flawlessly. Sadly the number of regressions has kind of taken the shine of the various improvements to the distribution. The big kicker for me is … Continue reading →

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Vacuum Firefox on Ubuntu

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Chris

It was suggested to me to use vacuum places to improve my Firefox awesome bar performance, as I’m still using Firefox 3.0 which is packaged with Jaunty; I do have 3.5 installed I just use it for testing sites at … Continue reading →

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Can anybody explain?

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Chris

chris@sandman:/mnt$ sudo df -h . Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 459G -1.9G 461G 0% /mnt chris@sandman:/mnt$ sudo du -hs . 4.0G . I sure as hell cannot!

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New Home

Posted on November 30, 2008 by Chris

My blog has a new home on a VPS hosted by Host Europe shared between me and a friend. It has a nice lean installation of Debian Lenny, running a variety of low profile or tuned applications to provide various … Continue reading →

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X2X

Posted on November 17, 2008 by Chris

X2X is this awesome little utility I found which allows you to control an X session on a remote computer with the keyboard and mouse on your local computer, by remote computer I for example mean the laptop sat beside … Continue reading →

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Punching holes in Firewalls

Posted on November 16, 2008 by Chris

It is a lot easier than you think. OpenSSH, which can only be described as the best utility of all time, is quite a versatile tool one feature people use frequently is port forwarding. This allows you to open a … Continue reading →

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