Monthly Archives: June 2006

The box that provides many of the UK Linux User Groups websites and mailing list facilities is sick. Andy Smith mentioned this earlier in the week, and there seems to be further problems with it. Last night I went to see the machine, taking some replacement hardware with me with a view to …

I have an iRiver IHP140 (now called H140 by iRiver) “Multi-Codec Jukebox” – basically an MP3 player in colloquial terms. I’ve had it a couple of years now and I use it almost every day. It has a 40GB disk which currently contains the following split of data.

5.1GiB – Data – documents, spreadsheets and …

Chess Griffin has released a new episode of Linux Reality where he goes through Ubuntu 6.06 (LTS). It’s worth a listen as his podcast is pretty high quality and he’s good at targetting the Linux beginner / newbie. If you have a pdcast client you can add his feed to get the podcasts when …

I have had an Apple MacBook Pro on loan for the last few weeks. One of my customers has a lot of Macs on the estate being used by creative type people. They have a corporate system for which the GUI doesn’t work on the new Intel Macs, but does work on the old …

Some time ago my friend Hugo came up with a noddy way of seeing how fast a machine is. It involves timing how long a machine takes to count to a very high number in perl. This is not a benchmark, just a bit of fun. You can find the results on my wiki …