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New site design - it's here!

It’s arrived! In case you’ve missed the rest of the site, I’ve pushed the staging branch to the world in it’s black and green(ish) glory. It may not to be to all tastes but at least it’s better than the old layout. It doesn’

Hardware with a case of the Mondays...

Good grief, Charlie Brown. I wonder why the hell I ever got involved with technology. Saturday: I’ve needed a printer / scanner to replace my venerable (and often dodgy) Lexmark and Genius combo (the Lex part having never worked with Linux but OK with Win), so I pick up a

Holiday halfway point.

One full week to go before I’m back to the grind (something I’m not looking forward to, but I have to eat) I’ve at least managed to get something different in this time – a visit to the new Modern Art Gallery [http://www.qag.qld.gov.au/

...so he tries to get too frickin' clever..

…and almost loses. As noted in my last entry, I picked up a gigabit switch in the post Christmas sales along with a suitable network card. Today, being a generally wet/overcast day (meaning “watch cricket on the TV and hack around a bit if it’s slow”) I picked

Another Christmas survived.

It wasn’t half bad, actually – got to catch up with Paul and his missus among other relatives I don’t see too frequently. As usual, the food is plentiful and good. Sleeping on the couch (as per tradition for me) was not so good and my back is absolutely

A little extra reliability...

Payday finally arrived! I’d been looking at a good UPS (uninterruptible power supply for the non-hacker/tech readers) and finally settled on the APC RS 500 (about $AU300). It was painless to install and even with my current-sucking bittybox (ie pong, the environmentally-unsound old beast it is) I’ve

Because I've not put one up for a while.

…here’s a desktop screenshot. [https://i0.wp.com/www.enlartenment.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/oct2006screen.jpg] I’ve been running GNOME for who knows how long now – thought about KDE (nah) and Fluxbox (almost..) but stuck with what I know best. It just Works. I’ve also