The lesser mabinogion
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This is by far the best and most relevant comparison of Windows Vista and Ubuntu Linux I’ve read(1).
(1) – it’s also the _only_ comparison of Vista and Ubuntu I’ve read
I think TPG needs to do something about their upstream bandwidth. My modem syncs at between 9 and 10 Mb consistently, and the speed to TPG themselves is very consistent too, but the actual speed to the internet is very hit and miss. On a lot of [...]
The transition is nearly complete – welcome to my new server!
I’ve gone from a dedicated server down to a virtual server, but apart from a little less disk space everything is better – it has faster CPU, faster network, more memory, and it costs less.
Also, I’m now using [...]
A load level of 14 – compiling KDE4 (using a three way parallel build), while starting a VMWare virtual machine from a USB drive, while copying 4 gig of data from a different USB drive to the local drive, and everything is still wonderfully responsive. My laptop or the old Music computer would have given [...]
My music computer decided to go down in a blaze of glory a few nights ago. Emphasis on the blaze. I don’t know if flames were actually involved, but smoke certainly was. The house still stinks of it.
The power supply burnt out, and it seems it took the motherboard with it when it went, [...]
Caitlin had an impromptu networking lesson today. She now knows the differences between a hub, a switch and a router, and can describe how both ARP and IP routing work (even if she doesn’t necessarily know what they’re called).
She then spent the afternoon gleefully pinging and tracerting [...]
well, it all seemed to work pretty much as I expected, so now I’m off to start the migration process.
I’ll post a description of my backup solution later.
I just submitted a reprovision request for my new server.
Basically that means they’ll wipe it completely, back to the state it was when I bought it.
Hopefully, the backup and recovery procedure I’ve worked out will work, and I’ll be able to restore it back to the state it was before reprovisioning.
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Gah, trying to find decent Eclipse RCP tutorials is a painful, painful process. There’s a lot of articles out there, but very few actual tutorials. Currently GEF (the Graphical Editing Framework) is the particular part I’m interested in. Every “tutorial” for it I’ve come across somewhere has been nothing more than an overview of the [...]
Well, I’ve finally decided to go ahead and upgrade to ADSL2+. I originally planned to do it the second my exchange was enabled. That happened in June, but various things got in the way so it took me until now to get round to it.
That means ditching Netspace as an ISP after about 3.5 [...]
