Fscking hard-disks

Usually when I wake up I have three emails from cron on my home server. Two report the status of various automated processes to maintain strawberrycat.com and the other reports the status of backing-up this blog. If I get only two it usually means that this server has failed in some way; if I get one [...]

March 4th, 2012 | Tags: , , , | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

How to work from home when you don’t have your company computer

As you may have seen on various news sites, the UK is covered in snow at the moment and we aren’t coping well as a civilisation. I usually leave my work computer in the office unless I am planning to work from home the following day, and since the weather forecast on Tuesday was that [...]

January 13th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 2 comments

Stealing usability from Apple

Apple’s OS X, which I use for most things at home, has a cool feature on its ‘dashboard’ which allows a webpage or fragment thereof to be displayed as a ‘widget’.  Ubuntu comes with a similar ‘dashboard’ thing; Compiz fusion knows it as ‘Widget Later’.  I was unable to find a web-viewing widget installed with [...]

August 23rd, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 3 comments
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