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@canllaith- canllaith: Backing up my baby Dell to try the beta of Ubuntu 10.10
- canllaith: Singing along to Karen Carpenter. My voice is coming back! Stupid string of colds/flu.
- canllaith: @gianouts why don't you go in? :P
- canllaith: @WasPhantom I was just having a conversation about how many bottles of water we could store under our bed .. =)
- canllaith: Updating the HTC Hero I use for work stuff to HTC's official 2.1. Hoping that handles work exchange better than the Nexus One did.
Author Archives: Jes
The Puppetmaster
I’ve been asking to have ‘The Puppetmaster’ as my job title for quite a while now – ever since I first discovered the joys of configuration management with Puppet some 18 months ago. We do a reasonable number of solutions … Continue reading
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Oh Firefox …
I grabbed a copy of Firefox 4 Beta 3 today to check it out. When I launched the browser I was taken to What’s New and couldn’t help noticing this entry: Born to Beta Who knew? Our beta users are … Continue reading
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Simple Coloured Bash Prompts
I have as of yesterday switched over to Fedora 13 on my work laptop. We deal mostly in RPM-based Linux at work – CentOS, RHEL, and SLES – and I wanted to both better learn the nuances of RPM-based distributions … Continue reading
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Linux Journal – Distributions, a Brief History
First published in Linux Journal issue #194, June 2010 It seems as though there are as many Linux distributions as there are letters in the alphabet with which to name them. Certainly, there is a flavor to satisfy almost any … Continue reading
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Android App Love
I really, really love my android. It’s the last thing I put down before I go to bed at night, and the first thing I pick up again in the morning. Not only do I not miss my iPhone at … Continue reading
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Once apon a time …
Person A has a problem, and can’t find a solution in the project documentation. She eventually figures it out for herself, and when Person B comes along with the same problem, confirms that she had the same issue, notes the … Continue reading
Nexus One
After three years of being a faithful iPhone fan, I’ve switched to Android. I’ve just finally had enough. No matter how polished the user experience is, or how great the hardware, I am sick of being frustrated by iPhone’s petty … Continue reading
Simple Steps with Puppet
Puppet is an automation framework for UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems. It allows sysadmins to automate common tasks in a centralised, efficient, and scalable way. I’ve recently started looking into Puppet, drawing on my experience managing a large and convoluted … Continue reading
Linux.Conf.Au – Day Four
Day four of the conference opened with a keynote entitiled “Hackers at the End of the World” by Glyn Moody. Glyn explored the history of sharing in science and art as inspired by the open source movement, and contrasted this … Continue reading
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Linux.Conf.Au – Day Three
The glorious weather that had punctuated the first two days of the conference held, heralding in the third day in a blaze of sunshine. The conference proper was introduced by a keynote by Benjamin Mako Hill on Antifeatures: Why your … Continue reading
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