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Category Archives: geeky escapades
PackageKit presentation
On Wednesday we had the pleasure of Richard Hughes joining us at Hursley to talk about PackageKit. I’ve heard of it but never quite bothered finding out any more than the name but having gone to the presentation I’m pretty … Continue reading
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Tagged hursley, install, linux, packagekit, presentation, software, talk, update
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Am I online?
I’ve recently changed my broadband provider and wondered how reliable they’d be. I figured I needed a way for my house to let me know whenever the connection had dropped and for how long for etc. Remembering my post a … Continue reading
Posted in geeky escapades, techy solutions
Tagged broadband, connection, internet, python, status, tweetject, twitter
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Tweetjects and Bluetooth
Andy Stanford-Clark recently got a few people together to talk about blogjects and tweetjects after getting his house to tweet about the various goings-on there. That inspired me to think about what I could do with Twitter and remembered a … Continue reading
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Tagged blogject, bluetooth, mqtt, python, tweetject, twitter
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Passwords passwords passwords… again
Since the big password changeover of 2008 I’ve noticed a couple of minor problems: My passwords are completely unmemorable and stored in a specific location. This makes it difficult to use one of my accounts on another machine (e.g. phone, … Continue reading
Leave me alone!
Ok, I’ve realised that I am being bothered so much that I can no longer be productive. By friends or colleagues? No, all my own doing unfortunately. Throughout the day I am constantly interrupted with important information such as a … Continue reading
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Tagged 43folders, blog, email, feeds, filter, interruptions, liferea, merlin mann, notifier, priorities, rss, twitter
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Passwords passwords passwords
In the past I’ve taken the very secure approach to passwords by having the same one for everything. As I have to change most of my passwords for work every 90 days I even had trouble remembering that one password … Continue reading
Back again
Ok, I’m sure no-one actually noticed but this blog is back in action after well over a week. Apparently my host had some major issues and struggled to get everything up and running again – that’s the price you pay … Continue reading
Christmas fun
Ok, so I got a bit bored at some point over Christmas and decided to play with one of my presents – a USB Rocket Launcher. The first difficulty was getting it to run on my Linux laptop as the … Continue reading
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Tagged accelerometer, laptop, launcher, linux, mqtt, python, rocket, usb
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Web 2.gareth
Ok, so given that I enjoy working with Web technologies and I’m interested in many of the Web 2.0 (or whatever you want to call it) ideas, I’ve been trying to get more involved. After trying to use Flickr a … Continue reading