Last night, K texted both myself and Amanda with the same message. However, when selecting me from her phone’s address book, she used the landline entry by mistake. The result was a phonecall from a BT robot reading the text to me (nice service – hope we don’t get charged for the pleasure). The amazing …
Monthly Archive: March 2009
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Mar 31 2009
Why Twitter?
Recently, I’ve had a number of people asking me why I use Twitter. “Wass dat Twitter thang den?”, they ask, albeit in a version of English more likely to match grammatical rules. So, here’s a very quick comparison between my blog and Twitter: My blog is big-picture. I ideally aim to post every day, sometimes …
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Mar 29 2009
Summer of Code 2009 – please do this one!
I didn’t propose this project so I have no compunction about pleading for someone to apply to pursue it: Sync with Mobile Devices. I should be able to seamlessly sync between my laptop, my Palm LifeDrive and my Nokia N95 via bluetooth without having to touch a command-line. I can’t. (Actually, even with a command-line …
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Mar 25 2009
How independent will Iraq inquiry be?
[Ref] David Milliband has said that the UK government will hold an inquiry (which the Lib Dems rightly say must be held in public) into the Iraq war once all UK combat troops have left the country. The thing is, does anyone really believe such an inquiry – even if it is a public one …
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Mar 25 2009
Planet SUSE DNS resolved
There were some issues with the renewal of planetsuse.org. These have been resolved (no pun intended) and the correct DNS information should now be propagating.
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Mar 02 2009
Making the SD card slots on the Acer Aspire One work in openSUSE 11.1
So, the only outstanding piece of hardware not quite fully functioning was the pair of SD slots. A spot of research led me to discover that they are PCI-E devices and need hotplug enabled. Helpfully, there’s information on this in the openSUSE wiki. So, here’s the info you need: Stick the following in /etc/modprobe.d/pciehp options …
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Mar 02 2009
Sermon: Matthew 27.11-31 – To the Cross
Recorded yesterday at St Paul’s. 20 minutes long. Available as Ogg Vorbis or MP3: PDF of the accompanying presentation.
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