After years of earning a living through using free software I’ve finally contributed back to the open-source world.
Frustration
For the two and a half years I’ve been pushing some personal projects to Github and some of my code I’ve been told has even been helpful for others. While this is certainly open-source none of my efforts [...]
Johnny has kicked the wheel off and BLUG meetings are starting up again on the last Wednesday of the month, starting this evening at 6pm in The Tap House, Lower Crescent, just off Botanic Avenue, Belfast.
Some additional information is available on the BLUG Facebook group and on the Belfast Linux newsgroup.
See you there!
It’s nearly time to get your geek-on… Check out Andy’s blog for the skinny on BarCamp Belfast 2008.
I hope to see you all there!
There have been times in my life when my job description could well have been best described as being a professional coffee drinker. These days however I’ve found gainful employment but continue to consume vast quantities of the stuff and even use coffee nomenclature to name my new *nix boxes.
During a caffeine-fueled session with my [...]
I attended BarCamp last year and I heard this morning that details of this year’s un-conference have been confirmed.
The fun is happening on Saturday 21st June, 9am – 5pm in the Peter Froggatt Centre at Queens University Belfast.
See you there!
I’ve seen this on a couple of blogs recently so I thought I’d give it a go on the VPS this site is hosted on:
steve@decaf:~$ history | awk ‘{a[$2]++} END {for(i in a)print a[i] " " i}’ | sort -rn | head -10
190 ls
80 cd
24 cp
22 sudo
19 rm
14 svn
12 history
11 tar
10 wget
10 vi
And as root:
172 [...]
For the past week I’ve been using up the annual leave that I’d carried over from last year and hit the road for Fermanagh to spend some time with my family.
My Mum and myself went to pay a visit on my Grandmother and while stopping to buy some flowers I spotted this on the dashboard:
I [...]
As I mentioned yesterday, my broadband had been on the blink and this morning I decided to take action as I need to do some work from home this weekend.
Just before 9am I phoned tech support and was suprised to not have to wait on hold: my call was answered almost immediately. The support guy [...]
For 2 days now the “ready” light on my cable modem has failed to light up and hence I’ve had no internet access at home I’ve tried power-cycling the modem, leaving it unplugged overnight and even disconnecting and reconnecting the cable input. No Joy.
I checked the Virgin Media service status page and can [...]
I'm currently visiting my family in sunny Fermanagh and typing this from the ASUS Eee PC handed to me by Matt as I left the office yesterday.
One word sums up my opinion of this little device: “amazement.” I'm amazed that something of this size and at a price of £220 can run a full Linux [...]