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Dale on Twitter...
- Forced back into twitter to follow a friend... hi bruce! 2010-09-23
- I really should update this thing more often... too busy though... "Life" the thing that happens between tweets... 2010-02-24
- 5months since last tweet... mmmh been awhile. 2010-02-09
- I'm cold, wet and miserable... can we cancel the week? 2009-09-08
- Awesome managed to fix my problems all caused by file and registry permissions. 2009-09-04
- Argh! weird permission problems with barcode scanner drivers on my vista machine... time for some serious debugging! 2009-09-04
- Hope the day goes by quickly... 2009-09-04
- For those of you who are curious this is my desk... http://www.stuff.za.net/?p=833 2009-09-03
- Fighting with barcode scanners, C# code and USB... 2009-09-03
- RT @villagetelco RT @mcleodd: RT @innov8ive: ~ 0.o ~ Latest image from South Africa Street View http://twitpic.com/g712y <-- LOL 2009-09-02
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Category Archives: Linux
Too many files open…
I’m not exactly sure what my computer was up to while I was at work today. But when I arrived home today I couldn’t get the screensaver to bring up the login screen, but the machine was responding to pings… … Continue reading
Edgy Eft (Ubuntu 6.10)
So 1000 and something packages and about 900mb later I have a completely uptodate version of Ubuntu my upgrade to the new 6.10 version of Ubuntu finished late Saturday night and I sat tweaking things until early Sunday morning. I … Continue reading
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Upgrading to Edgy Eft (Ubuntu 6.10)
Right now rain my main linux machine at home is busy downloading the packages to complete the upgrade to Ubuntu 6.10 – Edgy Eft. It was pretty easy todo just dropped to the command line (well gnome-terminal) and ran ‘sudo … Continue reading
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Fonts
Been messing around with doing a little design work this morning… and discovered Pengiun Fonts. If you’re looking for “free” fonts that look cool and instructions on installing them on your linux distro of choice this is the place to … Continue reading
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My (not so) new toys…
I’ve got a problem that I really like buying computers, and while I don’t always have an exact use for them when I buy them I normally find something for them to do. A few weeks back (about 2) I … Continue reading
Open Source CAD
I’m always desinging something, I admittedly never build anything… or not once I’ve worked out it’s do-able but I enjoy designing weird stuff. Almost all of my designs are scribbles on paper and I never actually make any kind of … Continue reading
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Open Source Desktop Publishing Software
Having once run my own small business I know all about doing things yourself to save money. One of the things that we did alot of was brochures, manuals and other printed documents. When you’re a small company you can’t … Continue reading
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