Category Archives: computers

WiFi Linux on a shoestring

Posted on May 9, 2007 by blogmywiki

CAUTION: this is a geeky Linuxy post that’s really just here because I’ll forget how I did this in about a week and I might want to do this again some time… Ages ago I put Xubuntu – a cut-down … Continue reading →

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I Have Measured My Life In Server Rooms

Posted on March 21, 2007 by blogmywiki

There we are, title for a slim volume of terse verse about working with computers. By the T.S.Eliot of the IT Crowd. I mean, he worked in Lloyds Bank for heaven’s sake…

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Insanely Great Freeware

Posted on February 28, 2007 by blogmywiki

While I’m thinking of it, here’s some of the great – free – software I put on the kids’ computer… most are cross-platform. MAME – play old arcade games, relive your mis-spent youth, get your kids to mis-spend theirs Audacity … Continue reading →

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Innocence lost

Posted on February 26, 2007 by blogmywiki

With a slightly heavy heart I’ve had to install parental controls on the computer in the back room – which meant upgrading the G3 Tower of Power from MacOS 10.3 to 10.4 (Tiger). The boys had been looking at some … Continue reading →

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Dreams come true

Posted on February 25, 2007 by blogmywiki

I kept dreaming of a new kind of laptop. I kept drawing it and doodling it. It would be about the size of an A4 sheet of paper, have Wifi, run some kind of Linux and – crucially – have … Continue reading →

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