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Category Archives: Linux
$4,134,035
No, I’ve not won the lottery. That’s my final score on ‘High Roller Casino’ on my Nokia after numerous successful Texas Hold ‘em tournaments. And it’s the final score because yesterday I took delivery of a new phone, the HTC … Continue reading
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The PVR Conundrum
I’ve blogged in the past about my exploits with MythTV, and playing around with Personal Video Recorders. Over Christmas we bought ourselves a new TV and DVD player, to replace our aged tv, freeview box and dvd player, all of … Continue reading
Code Release!
It’s been a while since I released any code into the public realm. Until today \o/ Sadly, the code is probably not something that many people are interested in, but I was interested and that’s enough for me Whetstone is … Continue reading
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Cute
Meant to post this a couple of months ago when I originally took it. (Click for fullsize. Thanks to the Ubuntu UK Podcast guys, from whom I won the Canonical store vouchers that paid for the hat ) I love … Continue reading
Aspire One
It’s been a week since my Aspire One got delivered, so here are a few thoughts (posted from it, of course). Linpus Lite lasted about 10 minutes before the novelty wore off and Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) got installed UNR … Continue reading
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Technology Changeover
It’s been 13 years since I bought a whole computer for myself. But today I put in my order for an Acer Aspire One netbook, which is very exciting. Sadly, in order to pay for it, I am selling on … Continue reading
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Panel Tool
In the past year of using Ubuntu fulltime at work, there have only been a couple of consistent annoyances. One was that when booting up with 2 screens attached it would default to the external monitor, not the internal. I … Continue reading
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Laptops and Puppys
I was recently given an old IBM i-series Thinkpad by someone who I work with and after having to salvage a cd-rom from another old Thinkpad (which had a busted screen) it works quite well. No network, wireless or otherwise, … Continue reading
Two Birds, One Stone
We’re in the process of decluttering our house a bit, and I was thinking of trying to raise a bit of cash to maybe buy some new tech (assuming I can get permission…), and so I’m thinking of flogging my … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Comics, Computing, Games, Linux, mrBen
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A 6 Month Retrospective
I reckoned it was about time to write a decent retrospective of the last 6 months in the life of mrBen. It’s been an extremely hectic and tumultuous time, but, as these things tend to be, quite important. I’ll try … Continue reading
Projects that didn’t really get finished last year
Last year, I posted a list of projects I wanted to complete in 2008. How did it go? Well….. not brilliantly: MythTV – box didn’t get touched, let alone back up and running, although it did see use at Camp … Continue reading
Dual Screen Ubuntu
Wanted to put down some useful things I have learnt about dual-screening in Ubuntu since I moved over to working under Linux full-time at work (and thus using a dual-screen environment more consistently). 1. The Intel driver for their gfx … Continue reading
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Catchup
Wow, it’s been a long time since I posted. And there’s _loads_ of things I could say, but I’ll make do with a few catch ups: New phone – got myself a Nokia 6500 Slide phone on a contract from … Continue reading
Uplink on Hardy
There’s a small games studio in the UK called Introversion Software who have, over the past couple of years, quietly produced some of the most interesting games around. Moreover, their games all run not just on Windows, but Mac and … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Games, Linux, mrBen
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LugRadio Live 2008 Review
OK – it’s been a bit late coming, but I thought I really ought to pen some words about LRL this year. This was originally billed as the end of LugRadio. However, while the podcast has now finished, it was … Continue reading
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Logging PMs in irssi
I’ve been a long time user of the irssi IRC client, and for a while now I’ve been wondering if I could log all my private messages without having to log all the channel history as well. I log all … Continue reading
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The end of an era
OK, so I’m a bit late blogging about this, but I wanted to do justice to the subject. Other people have written great posts on their blogs (not least Jono, Aq and Adam from the presenting team, and community luminaries … Continue reading
It’s Official
Now that it’s been formally announced, I can confirm that I will be speaking at this year’s LugRadio Live UK This is going to be a new thing for me. I’m going to be pulling together a lot of my … Continue reading
Infamy, Infamy, etc
My last post (Inoffensive Advocacy) made it in as a segment on the most recent episode of LugRadio. Hurrah! (Apologies to the Planet LugRadio folk, who will already know this ) mrBen
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Inoffensive Advocacy
This morning I had a really long and interesting conversation with Aq on IRC. One of the ideas I was discussing with him was using technology to cleverly, and inoffensively, promote Free software within Linux. (For those of you who … Continue reading
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