Monthly Archives: April 2009

emusic

I don’t write about emusic enough. I signed up a few months ago on a 50 songs a month package, and have downloaded countless really good songs that I would never have bought otherwise. This month I’ve concentrated on new … Continue reading

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Changing hostname in Mandriva

I’ve been doing a bit of work on Mandriva recently, and I always forget that there are two places you need to change the host name before it “takes”. in /etc/sysconfig/network add the following line: HOSTNAME=hostname Where hostname is whatever … Continue reading

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Dropbox for Mandriva 2009 and 2009.1

This should work on any recent version of Mandriva, but specifically on 2009 (current) and 2009.1 (cooker). So far so good, but as always, your mileage may vary. It’s the first one I’ve built on a VM (my physical build … Continue reading

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Social networking workflow

This is how it works….. I post anything under 140 characters to identi.ca using the Ubiquity extension for Firefox. This then posts them to Twitter and Facebook, and adds them to the right hand menu of this blog using the … Continue reading

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Review : Stages by Abscondo

I reviewed the first Abscondo album a while ago, and actually still listen to it a fair bit. So I was actually quite nervous about downloading the second one in case it didn’t live up to my expectations. Thankfully Stages … Continue reading

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Albums of the first quarter?

According to last.fm, the list goes like so: Frank Turner – Love Ire & Song + The First Three Years And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – The Century of Self The Hold Steady – Separation … Continue reading

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Holidays and other things

As of 4pm tomorrow I’m on holiday for 10 days. It’s the first break of any length I’ve had for a few weeks, and I am very much looking forward to it. Last time I was off I ended up … Continue reading

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Trying new Linux Distributions

This week I’ve been installing various things on the collection of SD cards and USB sticks I have lying around. Fedora 11 is looking very good, and runs like a dream on my EeePC. TinyCore looks interesting, and boots in … Continue reading

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