I’ve been very behind on Planet SUSE updates. I just did a whole bunch. If you sent me an update in the last few weeks it is now done. That is all.
Yearly Archive: 2008
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Nov 27 2008
Sermon: Ephesians 1.15-23 – Christ the King
Recorded on Sunday at St Paul’s. 16 minutes long (21 minutes with reading and prayers). Available as Ogg Vorbis or MP3: PDF of accompanying presentation.
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Nov 25 2008
Adventures in Factory
[Ref] The solution I came up with was to create a Factory network install CD, boot from that and select Installation and then do an update. This forced the kernel and mkinitrd to be updated and I’m now back logged into my laptop normally. Yay!
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Nov 25 2008
[Mis]adventures in Factory
A couple of days ago, I started using the pre-11.1 Factory builds – a ritual I go through roughly every six months as we get ready for a new release of openSUSE Linux. This morning, I upgraded – a full system update – and rebooted because the kernel had been updated. To my horror, the …
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Nov 16 2008
Closest book meme
(Because apparently I have nothing better to do right now) Grab the nearest book. Open it to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST. They probably do …
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Nov 11 2008
History is made
Poker history that is. Last night, Poker got its 2008 World Champion – Peter Eastgate. History was made by virtue of his age. At 22, he became the youngest ever winner of the Main Event – shaving two years of the record set by Phil Helmuth in 1989. Eastgate took home a little over $9m, …
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Nov 06 2008
Buy my words
Was chatting with a friend earlier when I made the following observation: Tea is always a step in the right direction, whatever the journey. She said that that statement ought to be on a coaster – and now it is courtesy of the new James The Vicar CafePress Store. You can also buy mugs, apparel …
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Nov 05 2008
A Seismic Shift
Richard Schiff (Toby Ziegler in The West Wing) writes in The Independent today.
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Nov 05 2008
Polls predicted it
The polls – as aggregated and parsed by Electoral-vote.com basically predicted the result state-by-state. Here’s the last set of polls and here’s the currently projected result with MT (43% counted), MO (91%), NC (99%) and IN (97%) still yet to announce. If those four states go as they appear to be so far then the …
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Nov 05 2008
Yes, he can!
338 electoral votes for Obama. He’s picked up CO, NV, VA and FL in addition to the Kerry states. NC and IN look likely to go for him too. The electoral map has been redrawn. The Democrats are likely to end up with 58 Senators a huge majority in the House and one new Governor …
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