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Monthly Archives: February 2006
skype!
Playing with some settings in the mixer today I discovered that it’s the Recording level that controls whether the microphone works with Skype. After this revelation I now have Skype working fully on FreeBSD as witnessed by a short conversation … Continue reading
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memory replacement
When I first spoke to Scan they quoted me a 3 day turnaround, so when I posted the memory back to them last Monday I hoped that would mean that they’d dispatch last week and it’d arrive today – when … Continue reading
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canute is alive and well
The story of King Canute trying to stop the tide is one that most people have heard, but I wonder if Apple has. Even before their new x86 based machines are reaching people’s hands the OS has been cracked and … Continue reading
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iwi firmware
If you have a laptop running with an iwi wireless card on FreeBSD 6, I’d suggest NOT upgrading your iwi-firmware port. I did last night and so now I’m stuck using using a cable! Ever since the “upgrade” all I … Continue reading
memory return
When I put my desktop system together last year I bought many of the components from Scan, on the reccomendation of Thom. They proved to be cheap, helpful and above all they actually did what they said they would! It … Continue reading
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police state
The next step towards the UK becoming a police state was taken today when the commons voted for the ID legislation. It represenets a remarkable abuse of democracy when over 60% of the public are opposed to such legislation, but … Continue reading
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stopping the hypocrisy
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” It’s a great saying and one that I try to follow. Sadly I don’t always manage it. Last night I was expressing some opinions in an IRC channel when … Continue reading
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what price progress?
I’ve been having a lot of fun and games getting mysql based auth working on a apache server recently. It seemed to be working, then it wasn’t. Restarting cured it, then it didn’t. I asked people and received that answer … Continue reading
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wp 2 makes it easier
Just wrote the entry about the lx90 and wanted to add some pics, so used the upload facility – very easy! Drag ‘n’ drop to insert the uploaded pictures into the entry also makes things easire than I’d hoped. Wp … Continue reading
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lx90 arriveth
I’d been thinking about buying a bigger scope for a while when I finally crasked and ordered it last Friday. It’s another Meade, this time an 8″ LX90. I oredered it through Telecsope House as they had a good price … Continue reading
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help and hinderance
One of the hardest things is often to know how to react to people when they offer help. I don’t think it matters much where you are involved or what arena it concerns, reacting in an appropriate manner when someone … Continue reading
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wordpress 2
Finally got round to upgrading this blog to wordpress 2. The big incentive was the addition of Akismet which really makes comment spam a thing of the past. I’m sure it won’t last but the BeClan blog has gone from … Continue reading
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so very true
“When everybody’s somebody, no one’s anybody” A statement that rings so very true in these days of politically correct madness…
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new telescope
I’ve been toying with the idea of buying a new telescope for a while now, and on Friday I finally broke and ordered one. With luck it should be with me later this week.
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