April 10th
Two bits of good news. Firstly, MyChores is finally back up and running, to my great relief. We lost data, but people are being very lovely and just reassuring me they are happy it is back.
Secondly, i just installed Flash player! I have been without it since i re-installed my computer a couple of weeks [...]
March 31st
Aha, i managed to get away from the course early because i had finished the exercise (using for loops and conditions and casting to create a calculator of compound interest). Everything today has been relatively straightforward - nothing i couldn't have figured out for myself, but that is reassuring to know at least.
On the train [...]
January 29th
In just 2 days my Linux video has had more hits on youtube than my 'other' video has had in over a year!
My other video is of Winchester firework display 2006, taken on my mobile phone. Nowhere near as exciting as Linux! :)
PS. look at the front cover of Linux Format for February (click to [...]
January 28th
Pro-Microsoft colleague: My computer's crashed!
Me: So has mine.
Pro-Microsoft colleague: How come?!
Me: Because it's Windows.
What more needs to be said?!
I found some wonderful Windows errors. Haha! My favourite is "An error occured while displaying the previous error". Heheh! :)
January 28th
I made a video of the Linux software i use, in response to a colleague who claimed that Linux is difficult to use. I prove that i have everything i need - and more - it's easy to use, and i haven't had to pay a penny for any of it!
The video also shows some [...]
September 1st
I seriously love my new computer - and Debian! Now that i understand the apt-get process i have been apt-getting to my heart's content all day long! I messed it up a little bit this morning because i didn't understand what sources i should use. I got onto a test source, and it upgraded about [...]
August 30th
Sorry for the multi-posting tonight! I am so excited!!
I have come up with a desktop that i REALLY like:
I think i rather like Debian! :D
August 30th
This gets me way more excited than it really should do …
more /proc/cpuinfo
August 30th
The really special thing is … i built it myself!!
A colleague at work helped me to choose all the bits, advised me what would work well, and what goes together, etc. Another of my colleagues got exactly the same as me, and we built them together last night! The hardware actually went really well, no [...]