This is the second of two entries on our journey home from Nerja. Read the earlier one here The last few hours of the journey home were significantly less eventful then the earlier ones. We left the Internet cafe about 3.30 pm, picked up some doughnuts, wandered abbout Camden for a while and then headed [...]

Last Thursday we were supposed to fly home from Nerja. Due to the ash clould we had to move this to the following day. When that flight was cancelled ryanair would not offer us another flight until at least Wednesday. We began to research other options to get home, but, decided they were too expensive [...]

So, I’ve been using it for a few days, and it’s working nicely now. Power Management The battery applet on LXPanel seemed to eh, not work for me. I decided to try loading in gnome-power-manager for this. Not only does this put an accurate power gauge on the panel (in the tray area), but controls [...]

So, last night I won a Dell Mini 10, and decided to try out LXDE rather than XFCE for a change (using the LXCD spin), so it’s been a little more fun to get working than it otherwise would have been LXDE This seems pretty light and cool. The default applications are very light, but [...]

Just noticed this on a clean Fedora 12 install (that I’ll talk about later). [andrew@Callandra ~]$ echo $PATH /usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/andrew/bin Compare that to the default Ubuntu paths: home@racetrack:~$ echo $PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games Ubuntu are right here, and Fedora is very wrong (much as it hurts me to have to say that). The point of the path is [...]

Jeff writes: What I would like to explain is why the impedance mismatch between Linux and Solaris packaging is not so much a technological divide as it is a philosophical one. Philosophical differences are fine. Infinite diversity in infinite combinations, etc., however, regardless of the philosophy the goal of the package manager should be to [...]

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Seriously. Basically, I believe that modern content management systems (Drupal, Joomla, and to some degree WordPress) have got it all horribly wrong. The fact that processing power is fast and cheap is the only factor that has allowed them to succeed in spite of this. All of [...]

So, it’s been a while since I posted, I thought I’d share my latest heap of hacky shell up here. Last week we were having a discussion following on from Chris Siebenmann’s post on restoring files from a package, to see what changes had been made. Anyway, we decided that such a feature could be [...]

In my earlier post on dirvish I said I’d have to beat it to do the kind of expire rules I wanted… well I’ve finally found time to do that. It’s a pretty simple approach, I’ve used the cron script to touch a dotfile if it’s the start of the week/month, and if that file [...]

My laptop is something I should *really* backup, since most of my files and stuff I’m working on is there. Since I’m too lazy to do this regularly though I setup an automated system to do this after I re-installed it this week. My objective was to setup a backup system that would always run [...]