Al: a blog about bikes and stuff.
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Leopard, part 2.
Through the joy of blog comments (see here) the Junipers Network connect VPN client is now working for me on Leopard. This is good, as I can now switch my MacBook over to Leopard. Sadly that is not as easy as I had hoped, because Apple’s Migration Assistant can’t copy my user’s data again to…
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PiP, PbP… a dual desktop solution?
I’m still pondering desktop setups, but I have had what I think is a genius idea (like all my ideas, obviously 😉 ). If I get a monitor with dual selectable inputs, and better yet one with picture-in-picture and picture-by-picture, I can connect up both the Desktop and the Laptop to one monitor and switch…
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Two hundred and fifty quid for what?
So I’m still pondering the best desktop set up for me, work-wise. At the moment I run an old G4 (1.2Ghz, 2GB) as a desktop and VNC my MacBook (orig 1.83 CoreDuo) so I don’t have to mix up my two Mail.App installs and because I want (need ;)) dual displays. I’m not unhappy but…
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Trick or treat?
Its Halloween tonight. This usually doesn’t concern me because for the past several I’ve lived in a flat with a gated courtyard to no one could ever know. Now, however, I live in a house, with kids living all around. Annoying kids at times to, that like to knock and run or kick footballs against…
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Leopard
So being the Mac fanboy I am, my Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) family pack arrived yesterday morning. Amusingly the courier delivered to my sisters work about an hour later and said to her “I know what you’ve got for Christmas, its one of them new iPods I’ve been delivering all day.”. My sister put him…
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Castle Combe Track Day
For my birthday earlier this year, my girlfriend, sister and parents bought me a track day at Castle Combe. What with work going under and such I didn’t take up the day until last Friday. I must admit to being a touch nervous on Friday morning. I am a wonderful driver (*ahem*) and I like…
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WordPress
So I have switched to WordPress. If you are reading this on LiveJournal it is because I’m using the crossposter plugin (you can leave comments easily via OpenID too). Mainly I switched because I wanted better control of how I present and deal with stuff, but also ‘cos I just fancied a change 😉 I…
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Morgins downtime
For the benefit of those is may affect, Morgins will be down at some point tomorrow whilst it is replaced with a new machine. The wonders of rsync mean you should only notice: a) the box going off line for a bit. b) the box being much faster after. That is all 🙂 Update: All…
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New toy! (cheap PVR)
I’ve been pondering a PVR thingy for a while but could never justify the cost or really needing one. Tesco have allegedly had a barginous 70quid Digihome one but its never in stock (been watching for 9 weeks, apparently its 60quid now too, but again, no stock) that is the same as the 95quid one…
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Nearly all done.
Well, today was the end of it, almost. All the IT equipment went today, though oddly the chaps didn’t have room for the 42u Dell cabinet, so a quick call soon found it a new home up the hill at the CS department via the back of a Volvo estate! Rah! The last of the…
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