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Category Archives: Computing

Blogging platforms

Has anyone else noticed a large amount of ping backs to link farms from Planet Ubuntu feeds over the last few days? I’m getting a fair few. I’d give an example but if I link to a site that takes my posts from a syndicated site and creates posts that are syndicated on other sites [...]

Samsung NC10 – a pleasant Ubuntu experience

It’s another year and I’m deploying next week. One of the few perks that entails is VAT exemption at PC World. I had decided some time ago to retire my Acer Aspire One A110L, this seems a sensible opportunity. I need the following:

Very good battery life
No solid state disk (SSD) – they’re too small and [...]

A Windows post (gasp)

Windows software tends to abstract any kind of technicality from the user, except when it comes to ripping.  For some reason, this requires a myriad dropdowns.  I’m computer literate and I struggle.

Updated Wiki page for Huawei E1550

Following up on older post, I realised the instructions for Fedora were wrong.
The page is now updated and I’ve tested it with a Huawei E1550 on an Acer Aspire One A110 running Fedora 11.
http://wiki.lynxworks.eu/misc/e1550#fedora

Hey Presto (sorry)

Fedora 11 has Presto support, enabling Delta RPMs in yum.
This means that the difference between a patched and un-patched binary are downloaded and applied rather than the entire package.  Furthermore, because this is applied to the installed binary, there is no need to have the un-patched RPM.  This offers substantial decreases in download sizes during [...]