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Killing and Reviving an Aspire One

I just spent 2 hours reviving my Aspire One netbook after inadvertently killing it whilst fiddling about configuring dropbox. I found the whole process unnecessarily fiddly and information on the interwebs to be a bit scarcer than I would have liked, so I’m documenting it here in case I need it in the future. Hopefully [ READ MORE ]

Ubuntu, Xmonad, and an Ode to Apt

This weekend I finally got around to updating my main Linux box from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 (yes, I know, 4 months late – but moving fast!). The highly excellent xmonad has made it into the main Ubuntu repositories, so I discarded my own build and grabbed the packaged version – which promptly didn’t work [ READ MORE ]

These…Are Not The Hammer

So, yesterday saw the end of a weird week of Whedon wonderfulness when the third and final episode of Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog was released. All three episodes are now free to view until the end of the day, so run, don’t walk, over there now. After all, how often do you get the chance [ READ MORE ]

Bash History Spelunking

Learned from Weiqi, who learned from KageSenshi, about a Fedora Planet shell history meme – post the results of running the following command on your linux box: history | awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head I won’t bother repeating the inevitable warning about the dangers of executing random shell scripts you find on [ READ MORE ]

Evil = Important. Apparently.

OK, I know I shouldn’t even acknowledge spam blogs, but this one amused me. Some filthy credit-crunch link bait site took an extract from my previous post (this is obviously what happens when you say the phrase ‘credit card’ … oops) and ran it though an automated word substitution program. The result is fascinating. It [ READ MORE ]