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I’ve just had an email from a professional firm about some work I want them to do.

… you need to use your strimmer.

Dear Eclipse, I’ve set my preferences on your system to not receive marketing mails.

After a few weeks of negotiations, and another couple of agonising weeks of waiting for the paperwork to come through, I’ve been formally offered a job at Reading University’s ACET group, working on a project called VERA.

I’ve just seen this on nmg’s blog.

At work, I’ve recently taken up managing the codebase of GridSAM.

Having been to many conferences over the last 10 years, one thing that I find myself (as a part of the audience) subjected to with depressing frequency is this scenario: Chairman: “And our next speaker is Fred Nurk, who will be talking about Prestressed B…

I found this handy little site yesterday: searchplugins.net.

Magellan puts pictures of the world (or of any other sphere) on your desktop.

We performed the Verdi Requiem in Winchester Cathedral last night.

After vlad died last week, I rebuilt him with a new hard drive in the main system RAID array.

The choir I sing with, the Southampton Phil, is putting on a performance of Verdi’s Requiem next Saturday, in Winchester Cathedral.

Vlad is now alive again.

At about half eleven last night, my server, vlad, died.

We held this month’s HantsLUG meeting yesterday.

For years, it’s been a major failing of Linux (and X11 in general) that it’s not been possible just to plug in a new monitor and be able to extend your desktop on the fly.

In my previous post, I talked about the Apache configuration for lug.org.uk’s Static and Managed (S&M) server.

Something I’ve wanted to do for some time (and have been talking about for far too long) is to get a “static and managed” service running on lug.org.uk’s system.

I watched the Cohen Brothers’ The Ladykillers last night.

What does a switch do?

Well, I’ve dragged myself into another small part of the 20th Century.

Virtual machine management for qemu.

DVB video recording scripts

(lots of errors ensue)

If you use the DVB tools to record your DVB streams, you will probably want to do some post-processing, for example to crop out advertisements and remove leading and trailing material from timed recordings.