I recently mentioned my intention to write my own blogging software that would be sort of compatible with Blosxom. I decided to call it Possum as a bad play-on-words of PHP/Blosxom. I finally got around to starting to write it today. I decided not to try to support Blosxom flavours as they basically suck and …
Monthly Archive: January 2009
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Jan 27 2009
Planet SUSE hosting change
As of today, Planet SUSE has a new hosting arrangement which means a couple of things: It should be more reliable. It should be more responsive Many thanks to the many, many readers who have, by the traffic they generate, made this move necessary.
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Jan 27 2009
Fabulous themes!
Many thanks to Sandy for linking to the Shiki Colo[u]rs themes. he suggests the Wise version for openSUSE – that would be a fabulous default option although I like a dark/blue combo so I’m using the Brave variant. Get them all from the GNOME Colo[u]rs project – you’ll want the No-Murrine version as the gtk2-engine-murrine …
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Jan 23 2009
Blog software musings
Writing my own blog software has long been something I’ve considered doing – having never been 100% happy with the options out there. The thing has been a total lack of motivation to do it for that reason because available options have never been so bad that I just had to write my own instead. …
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Jan 23 2009
Letter from my MP
I received a letter from my MP, Chris Huhne about the progress of Climate Change discussions in Parliament. If you want to read the letter, I’ve stuck it on TwitPic: Update: Typo fixed.
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Jan 22 2009
openSUSE 11.1: Hibernation working with nouveau!
[Ref] I found some notes in the nouveau wiki and tried adding Option “ShadowFB” “on” to the Device section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf. It disables hardware acceleration (boo!) but it works (yay!) Update: On the other hand, it does cause the machine to freeze when one logs out. Back to the non-free option…
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Jan 22 2009
openSUSE 11.1: NVIDIA hit and miss!
I’ve previously blogged about the good things in openSUSE 11.1 but now I have to turn it on its head a bit. The second thing on my list was the good state of the nouveau drive in the Build Service (X11rivers:Video) and so when I got around to installing on my laptop yesterday (which for …
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Jan 20 2009
New-look jamesthevicar.com
From this morning, if you go directly to jamesthevicar.com, you’ll be greeted with a new-look, portal-style page, reflecting the expanding ways in which we (and of course, I) use the wonderful internet to communicate. So, as well as the latest post in my blog, there’s my recent tweets and tracks from Twitter and Last.FM. All …
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Jan 17 2009
New photos online
With my photo gallery being back in a functional state, I’ve added a few albums that had been waiting to be uploaded. In brief, they are as follows: Photos of Callum that had been pending since the last album of him. Our trip to Marwell Zoo in November. Kat and Jonathan’s wedding in October. Amanda …
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Jan 16 2009
Server back up
If you can see this, my server’s back up and running – hoorah! Furthermore, if you can see this, I’ve not broken blog posting beyond all recognition Furthermore again, my photo gallery is back online too!
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