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Surrey LUG Planet
The following are the blogs added by our members. If you have a blog that would be of interest to other Surrey LUG members, please add it below.
popey blog
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15 sec ago
Thanks to Peter Stevens for pointing this video out to me. I’d not seen it before, and it raised a smile. Those of an impatient disposition might want to skip to 2 minutes in to the video. It’s only 4 minutes long in total and is worth watching in full. Although you might find yourself unable to shake the tune and words as I am.
Note: If you’re viewing this in an RSS reader you might not see the above flash video. Click through to the post. Also viewable in html5.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaton’s#Bankruptcy has a little history....
popey blog
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15 sec ago
When comparing operating systems people tend to roll out the same old reasons every time. I think those of us who use Ubuntu are already aware that we have less viruses than Windows, less malware, it’s free of cost and so on. I’m sure we’ve pointed out plenty of times that you’re legally entitled to copy the CD and even create your own remix.
However I wanted to look at some of the things I’ve done recently on Ubuntu that under Windows would be costly, difficult or impossible. So without further ado here’s my:-
Top ten things you can do with Ubuntu, that you’d find hard, costly, impractical or impossible with Windows, which clearly makes Ubuntu better (in my humble opinion)
Snappy title huh?
Hardware support is better than you think...
popey blog
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15 sec ago
Google have finally (street)mapped most of the UK. Look at all that blue!
From Land’s End..
..to John o’Groats..
and pretty much everywhere in between.
Including my own back yard! Not found myself on it yet, but have had a great time ‘driving’ around the country. Found anything fun? Leave a comment...
popey blog
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16 sec ago
Some time ago I bought a Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2 laptop. At the time it was the fastest thing I could buy. It was also the heaviest! With a 17″ 1920×1200 screen and all the toys, it’s a bit of a dead weight. It was always intended to be a desktop replacement, so it mostly sat on my desk all of its life so the weight wasn’t an issue. Having nice big screen was lovely for desktop use and playing the odd game.
It has a 1.8GHz Pentium CPU and an nVidia 6800Go video card. Not long after I bought it, the video card failed. I blogged about...
popey blog
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16 sec ago
I asked last week if anyone knew of any cool podcasts I should subscribe to. I had a few suggested, one of which I’m now hooked on. Hacker Medley is a fairly new podcast started by Alex Graveley and Nat Friedman.
So far they’ve cranked out 3 episodes and in my opinion they’re all great. They’re all quite short but nicely packed with useful geeky information. Many Supreme Overlord geeks will probably say the content isn’t geeky enough, but it’s pitched at the right level for me. I learned plenty from all three episodes which covered...
popey blog
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16 sec ago
I’ve got my ticket for Farnham Beer Exhibition 2010 (along with 5 others) which takes place (as usual) at Farnham Maltings in Farnham, Surrey, UK. The tickets cost £7 each and there’s a tradition of queuing up to get them when they go on sale at 7AM at the Maltings itself. Yes, that’s 7AM on a Sunday morning. What’s even more bizarre is that in order to get within the first 50 people you need to be there before 5AM!
This was my first time queuing for tickets, and only my second Beerex visit. Last year one of “The Alans...
issyl0 blog
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I finally decided to bite the bullet and install Lucid Alpha 3 to my laptop last night, mainly due to the fact I couldn’t wait to experience the shininess of the new design and the “light” themes. It all went well and it booted, which was a significant improvement from Alpha 2, even if the screen resolution wasn’t correct. I noticed a bug then and reported it, however I didn’t do it properly which caused a bit of kerfuffle when I realised it was NVIDIA’s fault and had nothing to do with Ubuntu directly! I don’t know what happened to that one, I think it went down in the list. I have since found and reported more (bug numbers 521908 and...
popey blog
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16 sec ago
People often (yes, really) ask me which audio podcasts I listen to and which video ones I watch. I have recently rationalised my list as I migrated from iTunes on the Mac to gPodder on Ubuntu.
I thought now would be a good time to publish the list of what I subscribe to. I’ve attached an OPML file that was exported from gPodder (subscriptions -> export to OPML file). You can just import that OPML into your podcast client, or just open in a text editor and pluck out the interesting URLs and use those instead.
I don’t listen to every episode of every podcast, but usually...
popey blog
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16 sec ago
Just a quick update.
Matt Griffin has updated the Ubuntu One Music Store FAQ with this gem which is probably one of the single most often asked question.
Q: Ubuntu can’t play MP3s out of the box so how will we play purchased songs?
Canonical has put effort into making the customer experience as effortless as possible. When you visit the Ubuntu One Music Store, it will detect if you have MP3 support installed. If you don’t, the store will install the Fluendo MP3 plugin for GStreamer. The MP3 plugin is distributed worldwide at no charge under a license from Fluendo. An Internet connection is required.
So, we have a free legal mp3 decoder in the repository which semi-automatically installs and makes it easy to...
popey blog
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16 sec ago
Seriously, I can’t be the only person who does this?
Incoming flash blob (or HTML5 video if you have a decent browser)
Combining this with my compulsion to
watch -n 0.1 cat /proc/mdstat, I clearly need help. Is there a support group for people like me?
