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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.
Category Archives: Technology
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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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