E17 on Debian
Quickie install instructions: Add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list: # repo from Falko Schmidt: deb http://debian.alphagemini.org/ unstable main This will also require you to have...
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Interview with Rasterman of Enlightenment Fame
An interview with Rasterman on OSnews, founder of Enlightenment, on E17: http://www.osnews.com/story/19679 When will E17 be released? … does Rasterman have any timeframe in mind for the release of the...
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Boston JazzWeek Finale!
At Berklee Performance Center on Saturday the 3rd of May the finale of Boston’s 2nd Jazz week will be held. Tickets in advance are $10: http://www.jazzboston.org/about/jazzweek2008-highlights.asp...
View ArticleKey missing?
If you get this error message: W: GPG error: http://people.debian.org unstable Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 212253A4F641D1A6...
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NYC Irish Famine Memorial
A very unique design. It’s supposed to be a ruined house on a hill in Ireland. You walk around the base of the memorial, towards the water. Go through a short tunnel, which has speakers playing the...
View ArticleFriends on Last.fm
Some friends from my home town in Ireland are in bands! So I’ve 2 Last.fm pages to refer to you. First Pavesi: http://www.last.fm/music/Pavesi And Serial Twin: http://www.last.fm/music/Serial+Twin If...
View ArticleDigging a hole
Sandy digging a hole at the lake: Sorry if the music sounds a little wonky. Music extract is probably copywritted by the Estate of Jimi Hendrix.
View ArticlePresentations and Time
This is a common mistake that people do when given presentations, they run out of time. This appears to mainly be because they’ve written their persentation (usually on PowerPoint) and haven’t done a...
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Old Donegal Town
A while back I scanned some old postcards of Donegal Town that I borrowed from my Aunty Isabel. They’ve been pretty popular on flickr.com, with this one getting over 900 views: And this one getting...
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At the Backstrands
On Sunday Jeannie, me sister, and I went to Murvagh beach on a lovely sunny afternoon (or the Backstrands as me Dad used to call it). We spend about 2 hours paddling in the water and walking along the...
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Lenovo Laptop?
I’m thinking of getting a new laptop either the Lenova ThinkPad T400 (which is a replacement for the T61), or the IdeaPad U330 to replace my aging Dell 700m The big thing for me is do they work with...
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But I don’t want a PDF?
WTF is Citibank thinking with their web interface: When I’m looking at my old statements I don’t want to have to wait for a PDF to download, then for Adobe Acrobat to open just so I can briefly look at...
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Debian’s e17 Packages
I thought I’d start looking at using Debian’s experimental E17 packages. I commented out all other E17 repo’s from my source.list and installed the debian e17 package. It installs a minimal amount of...
View ArticleKDE4 and Debian
I figured it’s time for me to try and install kde4 again! Previously I had to remove KDE4 due to package conflicts. There are installation instructions at:...
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Support Pine Street Inn
Support Boston’s Pine Street Inn this year and buy holidays cards based on a photograph I took: http://www.pinestreetinn.org/news.php?id=343 The photograph also came 24th in the Boston Globe’s 2008...
View ArticleDell Laptops & Ubuntu
I’d heard that Dell were offering Ubuntu Linux on some of their laptops and I hadn’t really looked into it. But I came across this page the other day and it’s pretty neat to get Ubuntu (or any Linux)...
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Netbeans 6.5 on Debian
Doesn’t perform badly, I’ve been using it recently with Ruby code, and I like how it colourises the code to make editing code easier, and performs it auto-completion and method lookup (basically all...
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How to get from one terminal to another at Boston’s Logan Airport
I wrote this up for a friend who is arriving at Boston’s Logan Airport and whom has never been to Boston before. She has to get from Terminal E (Aer Lingus) to Terminal B (US Airways). It’s pretty...
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