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Hard Choice
A few weeks ago I thought I would take the plunge, and installed KDE 4.1 on my Kubuntu 8.4 laptop. With the recent announcement of Intrepid being launched, I upgraded to Kubuntu 8.10 with KDE4 as the default environment. I figured that I should get an early look at the […]
Read MoreA Book Meme
Normally you’re supposed to tag the next people to carry on the meme, but in Flash’s instance, she didn’t. So here goes anyway… If the connection between devices A and B breaks, then the devices know about it immediately because there is two-way communication between them, and they have now […]
Read MoreIt’s HAMMER Time
A year ago Matthew Dillon went into some detail about the new HAMMER filesystem. It’s now reaching stability, and will hopefully be sent forth in the upcoming v2.0 release of DragonflyBSD. All the interesting bits can be discovered here and here. A few features to note, though, are… 1 Exabyte […]
Read MoreEVE Online Badness
Recently EVE Online had been playing up. It was still in demo mode, but I quite fancied having a shot at it. The app was having none of it though… kyleg@CHLP0023:~$ eve Single-user install… This is the update checker… Running /home/kyleg/.cedega/.updater/cedega_updater.py Running… /home/kyleg/.cedega/.ui/runGUI kyleg@CHLP0023:~$ err:client:receive_fd FD went missing; attempting recovery […]
Read MoreLocation Location Location
[ad] It’s time, and Ofcom are beginning to enforce the latest revision to General Condition 4, whereupon VoIP providers must, where technically feasible, provide location information for their VoIP users. In order to aid emergency services, they will transmit details of your fixed line location to the recipient when you […]
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