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Just a few more random updates: * It's good to see myself in print again -- there's a feature in the PC Authority that hit the stands today that lists 99 great free apps, and I contributed the Linux portion of it. I checked it out today and
Linux
Intel has put a lot of money and effort behind its open-source video drivers for Linux, which is the main reason I went with the Intel X4500MHD video option on my new laptop, instead of the faster NVIDIA option. Going with a 100% open source solution gives two main
Linux
While I no longer have a Mac, I still need one from time-to-time for development and testing purposes at work. My old MacBook Pro is still there, and runs just fine in that role, but for a laugh I thought if it would be possible to run Mac
Technical
I'm fascinated by private spaceflight -- it's amazing to see private companies develop technologies and complete feats that were once the domain of governments with enormous budgets -- and today saw another milestone. SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 1 rocket for the first time in September last year
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Yet another post about my PC situation, this time with some good news. I found 2GB of spare DDR RAM, which thankfully seems to work just fine, and with that installed my old TV box has been transformed in to a perfectly workable desktop box. More importantly, it's
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So... everything went exactly according to plan yesterday with my hard drive juggling: the data copy finished up on Saturday morning, the system booted from the new drives after some boot loader fiddling, and the arrays rebuilt in to full redundant mode once I added the two 500GB drives from
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Things are going well with my hard drive shuffling so far -- the new drives are in my desktop box and tested, I've created and formatted the new arrays, and I'm now copying the data across. Over my 100Mbit network it's probably going to take
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I finally managed to lose a drive on my TV box -- one of the old IDE 250GB drives bit the dust the other day. I'd drop in a replacement, but getting an IDE drive isn't the easiest thing to do, and the box is out of
Linux
Is Apple the "light side" or the "dark side" these days? I've lost track, but either way, today was New Laptop Day at the office for me, and after six years of rocking a Mac laptop, I've switched back. The machine I&
Music
Songbird is an interesting creation -- the result of cross-breeding an iTunes-style music player with a modern web browser. It's based on the Mozilla XULRunner platform (you can essentially read that as "it's based on Firefox"), and that's probably partly responsible
Linux
I got off the proverbial pot on the weekend and picked up a synth -- I went with the Waldorf Blofeld. I've spent a few hours poking at it, but I've really only scratched the surface of it so far. I've auditioned perhaps a tenth
Music
With the cash from my Amiga sale still burning a hole in my bank account, and the prospect of a $950 Tricky Dick Fun Bill in my future, I've been taking a good look at the small hardware synth market. So far, it's looking like one