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Following my oops I got a new portege, though it had a blank disc. Fortunately I didn't really care about that, as I wanted to swap discs. This turned out to be a matter of 2 screws on each box,...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:58 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Oops. I think I may have kicked it a bit too hard this time. [Update: best comment so far has to be the ref to http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-%26-technology/windows-7-to-include-punch%11screen-technology-200903271670/, but http://www.computerhistory.org/VirtualVisibleStorage/popup_image.php?base_name=X1040.90 is a good second-best. Another update: I was quoted ~£150 to fix...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:48 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Perl would be Voodoo - An incomprehensible series of arcane incantations that involve the blood of goats and permanently corrupt your soul. Often used when your boss requires you to do an urgent task at 21:00 on friday night. From...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:13 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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I have a twitter feed, http://twitter.com/wmconnolley. Quite what its for, I'm not sure. Maybe it will turn out to be useful. Maybe I can embed it into my blog or something. Did I mention that I have a pointless facebook...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:41 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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mustelid.ning.com. Some kind of social networking thingy. I'm not quite sure what it does. Try visting it....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:12 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Just one of an avalanche of tedious blogosphere reactions to google chrome. This afternoon I was reading the comic book (at work, I confess, but I wasn't alone) and now I've downloaded it and this is written in it. So...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:37 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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I'm using VNC to view unix through windows and very nice it is. One irritating feature was lack of cut-n-paste between the VNC window and the outside world, but I could live with that. Then I wanted to run a...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 9:36 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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I have a load of files encrypted with pgp (2.6.2i, since you ask). But the machine at BAS this runs off is soon to be turned off, so it seems I need to upgrade to gpg instead. So... in a...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 9:43 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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