Tag: 42
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Moving the server around
Well, I woke up at 5 A.M. today – this tends to happen as the days get longer, I wake up when it gets light (so you can imagine what winter is like for me). Decided I was tired of the Dell server humming away in my room, and that it was time to move…
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More bathroom upgrades
This weekend has been quite productive. Mum and Dad came up to give me a hand with doing the panelling in the bathroom. 16 panels, the capping trim and 3 tubes of silicon sealant came to about ยฃ200, and the associated wood, screws and N0-Nails was probably an additional ยฃ30. Saturday saw the removal of…
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Invasion of the fox
My garden has been invaded by a fox. Well, not quite – I just happened to look out my back window this morning, and saw this really odd orange-brown lump curled up on my lawn. I thought it was a dog at first, but then it looked up at me, and hey presto, it was…
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Boxing… pipes that is.
$work had me tied at home today – some cables were being moved around, so I had to disable check-ins for all of the distributed nodes to avoid data loss. As a result, I got slightly active on the list of outstanding home improvement jobs, and tackled one of them. Before I took a jigsaw…
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Winter Arrives, 2005
Well, winter is starting to make its presence known in the Midlands. Temperatures have been dropping below freezing at night, and today was the first snow in this part of the Midlands. The forecast for today didnโt even include snow, but such is the life of a weather forecaster I guess. Canโt be much more…
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Slow Konqueror
Iโve been using Kubuntu for a few months now – first on my server after growing tired of Gentoo and compiling to get a program that I needed 10 minutes ago (and my server is no slouch), and then on my work PC (after trying CentOS 4.1 as a desktop OS [nope]). One thing that…