Stephen Fry noted it on Twitter but, really one should proof-read URLs before posting:
June 7, 2010
February 27, 2010
Where have I gone…
I haven’t disappeared off the face of the earth but I am overseas for a while. I’ll be updating when I get back.
August 31, 2009
Licensing
Never thought I’d have to publish this on my personal blog but I’d like to draw attention to the license:
For any CC work that you use from this site, please use the following attribution:
This work by Dougie Richardson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.5 UK: Scotland License. Based on a work at http://blog.lynxworks.eu, permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://blog.lynxworks.eu/about/
I chanced upon a site earlier (not linking to it – as I see no need to further their hits) where my post has been lifted verbatim and reprinted as the owner’s – with my name and as a link right at the end. It’s not asking much that if anything helps you, redistribute it under the same terms and give credit where it’s due.
Certainly don’t want to see someone else’s name attached at the top!
July 24, 2009
SSAFA, awards and royalty…
Lisa's Award
Just got back from London from the SSAFA Forces Help annual general meeting, where my wife Lisa won “Service Volunteer of the Year 2008/09″.
SSAFA is a charity that helps serving and former servicemen and women, their families and dependents. Dealing with a wide range of issues, from bereavement to housing and even adoption.
Lisa has been an in-service volunteer for a couple of years and has recently been appointed as volunteer coordinator in Wattisham, as the previous co-ordinator’s husband has been posted. She has been very heavily involved in fund-raising over the last year, giving up her time at the Wattisham Triathlon (which she is now training to take part in), open days and every event I can think of in the area over the last few years. Running monthly bingo nights and having taken part in several courses, she is very enthusiastic and I’ve hardly seen her this year! Lets not forget that we have three children between seven and twelve, how she does charity work, cycles every night and keeps an immaculately clean house I will never know. Certainly don’t know how she fits this around a Foundation Degree in Youth Justice
March 9, 2009
Experimenting with Ubuntu Netbook Remix
I have an Acer Aspire One, which I’m quite fond of. It’s surprisingly versatile or at least it is once I removed Linpus Linux Lite from it. I’ve nothing against Linpus, it has a purpose and most people are happy with it.
Arch Linux has been happily installed on it for several months now but thanks to a combination of curiosity, brand loyalty and the magic that is partimage1 I decided to give Ubuntu Netbook Remix a bash.
So I grabbed the USB image (1 Gb) and a copy of Imagewriter (not 1 Gb), plugged it in, rebooted and left the rest to the gods of ACPI implementation if it would boot.
That turned out to be a mute point as its a text install which after warning that your hard disk is about to be overwritten proceeded to copy files across and there I left it to run.
Now a sensible person who is working full time, contributing to Ubuntu, training in the gym and studying at the OU would utilise this time productively. I played Call of Duty World at War on the PS3 instead (DougieWougie if you’re interested). I got through a two full HQ games and it was done so I guess that it takes between 20 and 30 minutes to copy across.
Well the boot screen looks cool, boots reasonably quickly too – not as quick as Arch but quick enough. A few questions (language, time zone, keyboard setup, account name, password and if automatic login is required) and we’re up and running. Well after a minute or so but this is the initial boot so that’s to be expected.
Up and running!
I like the interface. Well the first thing everyone checks is their wireless and I’m pleased to say it works out of the box which is a first for me with Linux and a real plus over Arch which was a pain in the backside because of a DHCP bug. The screen resolution is right and the fonts look very crisp.
This only leaves power management to worry about – suspend works, so does resume (even Network Manager re-establishes a connection).
OK I’m off to have a play. This has been the most painless install I’ve ever done. Congratulations to the UDR team.
- I have a 16 Gb stick which boots System Rescue CD. Then I can happily create images using partimage. [↩]