Category Archives: Fun

Celebrating Gutsy Release British Style

By | Published: October 18, 2007

.. in a pub!

If you’re in London, like Ubuntu and fancy a pint to help celebrate the release of Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10, then join us in the Pembury Tavern in Hackney this evening from 7:30pm.

Hope to see you there.

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Ubuntu Community Manager hard at work

By | Published: May 9, 2007

Shhhh! You’ll wake him!

Oh, and Death metal sucks

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Dell XPS Vanity Lights

By | Published: April 20, 2007

Dell XPS Vanity Lights

I have a Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2 laptop. Long name for a big laptop.

It has some “vanity lights” on the lid, in the vents and speaker grilles. They are controllable via options in the BIOS and with a Windows based application. When I bought it the first thing I did …

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Playing with Babeldisc

By | Published: April 18, 2007

After reading about babeldisk the “safe” Linux distro, I thought I would have a play. Being a tightwad and happy with Ubuntu I decided not to sign up and buy a copy, but download the ISO image and have a look and see what it had on it.

I booted up the ISO using the …

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Am I Hot Or Not

By | Published: April 16, 2007

We have just had quite a warm weekend here in the UK. As temperatures rise, often so does the likelyhood of computer failure. In my experience this happens more in the home or small office where air conditioning isn’t quite so prevalent (in the UK).

One component that doesn’t like high tempreatures is the hard …

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