Ubuntu UK Podcast
I recommend that if you’re a little bit interested in Linux you have a listen to the Ubuntu UK Podcast.
Recently I joined the transcribers’ team. The aim of the team is to transcribe each of the existing episodes …
12th Jul
12th Jul
New job
It’s about five weeks too late but I should let you know that I have a new job.
For various reasons I decided to leave Core UK, formerly known as Azzurri Education, formerly known as Progrid, (UK) Limited; I shalln’t bore …
11th Jul
2nd Mar
Sowing for the new season
We have been taking full advantage of the greenhouse for the new growing season and the broad beans that Vicky germinates in pots are out in the garden a full month earlier than last year (thank you blog for documenting …
25th Feb
Our new greenhouse
18th Feb
Ubuntu Hardy Heron
I am itching to install the next release of Ubuntu – Hardy Heron.
I tend to break things by getting overly excited and installing betas so I am going to have to be patient and wait until April…
18th Feb
SSHD – Port Forwarding Problem.
To connect to my work PC I run Bitvise’s Tunnelier on my work PC and SSHD at home. My work PC then connects to my home machine and “asks” it to forward traffic from certain …
16th Feb
Ubuntu Gutsy/Nvidia GeForce Go 6100/GLX.
Ages ago I noticed that the shiny desktop effects on my Ubuntu Gutsy laptop had stopped working.
I have only just got around in investigating, I eventually sorted it out but only after a couple of hours of fiddling. The symptoms …
11th Feb
The timeout specified has expired: SSL input filter read failed.
After a reconfiguration on our Debian based shared host I was left scratching my head about this error in apache log file:
(70007)The timeout specified has expired: SSL input filter read failed.
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18th Dec
We’re in the wrong business
We’re in the wrong business.
I have never been impressed with Ticketmaster – the booking fees always irritated me and their postage rates seemed extortionate.
Radiohead, my favourite band, are selling tickets through what I have always understood to …
9th Dec
Computers and the over-65s
Well yesterday was interesting.
We went to visit my Nana and also some retired friends and had some interesting conversations about computers.
My Nana was talking about how at the doctor’s surgery she was told to go sign in on a touch …
3rd Nov
Creepy Crawly Eggs?
28th Oct
What’s growing in the garden?
Here’s what’s currently growing on our allotment:
Slug-eaten swedes
Swiss rainbow chard
Late and not too optimistic marrows
The summer’s lettuces run to seed
Really tall swiss chard
Cabbages, albeit caterpillar eaten
Brussel sprouts
Worryingly autumnal looking privet
Wild brambles at the end of the garden
Stuff we have had …
28th Oct
Garden Shed
26th Oct
