tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60934412011-04-21T23:52:38.042Zwith a view of the sea you can catch a glimpse of things on the horizonRuperthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027451882289109606noreply@blogger.comBlogger851100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093441.post-24083990909064826752009-01-22T23:52:00.002Z2009-01-22T23:54:13.923Z

Silverlight crashes FirefoxI never see Firefox on a Mac crash; ever.That is unless I am on a Silverlight enables site, in which case it is up and down like the proverbial drawers. Maybe I need to install a later version of Silverlight but it is inelegant behaviour on both the Browser and possibly MS

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This looks like a jolly good idea. I wonder what the fat cats who like to preach the power of market forces will feel if this develops and the real power of the market is brought to bear on the carbon emissions cap and trade bureaucompromise?

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Mozilla Firefox and Google ChromeIt is interesting to note that Mitchell Baker is relatively sanguine on her blog about Google's parallel parking their tanks. The amusing thing is that Firefox makes most of its enormous income from the Google search bar at the top right. So all this time they have been inadvertently funding the competition, as they now appear to be.

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CLI Ethernet action on the MacI have been doing an install that required 9000MTU and bonded Ethernet ports and there is no way that I could find to do this in the GUI on a Mac. Turns out it is easy to do with the command line networksetup command. Here are all the things it can do!networksetup -listnetworkserviceordernetworksetup -listallnetworkservicesnetworksetup -

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Mapping funI am loving this; currently I am using the incar Garmin but soon I will be saving out the GTX data from my HTC phone and using that.

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ProRes422 for the PCAbout time - here it is

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Finally nailed the annoying Excel 2007 slowdownI have been dogged by massively slow performance in Excel 2007 on and off since I installed it on Vista running as a VM on my MacBook when they were both released. When I installed XP instead I was delighted to find that performance of Excel 2007 improved massively; I put this down to XP.Recently I have had the same slowdowns and now I have fixed

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CLI text editor that is not VIMy colleague Dave put me onto the CLI text editor - on the Mac - that is Pico.No more VI hell for me as I try and recall all those crazy Unix hippy keystrokes. Pico is easy to use and gets the job done!For example you can drop into the CLI and type sudo pico /etc/hosts and then the root password and you are away and it is all there on the screen

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Off site backup by the drinkEver since I read an interview with Jeff Bezos by Tim O'Reilly when Amazon launched the idea of S3 I have really wanted to find a way to use it, and now I have. Unfortunately it is a bit beyond me to develop something for it from scratch but thanks to the clever people at Jungledisk I dont have to.We were asked to create an alternative suggestion for an offside backup

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Internal Apple NTP servergood post here on how to make an Apple server listen to an internal NTP server...

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Getting mail from the futureYou'd think life was busy enough without this!My windows VM sometimes stays at the time it was when I slept the MacBook; this morning I am apparently getting email from tomorrow; today!

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Thumbs and dots on network sharesThis is how to avoid the Mac dot files and the windows thumbs db files appearing where they arent wanted.http://tinyurl.com/ytqctx

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You Tube for data?www.swivel.com is a welcome development although it needs a few more official data providers. It would be great to see more and more official statistics agencies upload their data as a matter of course.

Ruperthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027451882289109606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093441.post-9936561478339427452008-06-30T20:43:00.006Z2008-06-30T20:53:22.990Z

Neil Diamond rulesI have always been a closet Neil Diamond fan. I have been watching the BBC footage of the man playing Glastonbury; what a dude! Wish I had been there off my tits and giving him respect for forty years of brilliance.Its instructive to watch him lose the doddery old fuccker look as the performance adrenaline starts to work his magic on him ...If you could bottle and sell the

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PDF Preview in Outlook 2007 solvedI have been staring at the "no previewer" icon in Outlook 2007 when there is an attached pdf for a long time and every time I do it seems odd that there is not one.As I use Foxit PDF reader in preference to Adobe's bloatware I was delighted to discover thishttp://tinyurl.com/5vwdcj

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VMware were worth every pennyHaving just installed VMWare Fusion on a Mac Book Pro I am so impressed. If anything their recent IPO was underpriced. This is the way forward; three OSes on one computer, all playing nice right inside the MacOS

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Adobe AIR or AdobeAir?Looks like the Adobe guys didn't Google the new name before they launched ;-)

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Salesforce is using Google Gears; it appears that this fellow has written an app using it already

Ruperthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027451882289109606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093441.post-903831132344132632007-06-17T17:48:00.000Z2007-06-17T17:52:28.538Z

Looking like Google Gears is going to be huge.I am using it for Google Reader and it is making working offline for the web a reality.I am enjoying Zoho as well. I think their CRM offering, which looks just like Salesforce, could be the thing. We are looking at Salesforce implementation across the co. but Zoho with Google Gears could be the thing that differentiates Zoho from Salesforce. Whoever

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Handy FCP pluginsThis clever fellow has some handy FCP plugins http://www.1z1.at/plugins/#displaysourcetcone of which allows you to burn in the source TC in the edited timeline just like good old Lightworks used to do and Avid never managed...

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Dave Winer finally installs Windows ;-)I notice Dave Winer has decided to install XP inside Parallels on his MacBook.I say go for the Vista; it works like a champ on mine.I have figured out the VPN annoyance. I needed to add the office DNS IP address to the VPN preferences. Vista doesnt assume its the DNS server of choice, unlike XP, it seems.

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Its the end of the world as we know itBugger global warming;

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Removing all cross fades in an FCP timelineSelect the timeline windowPut the playhead on the first frame of the sequencePress Cmd-F and enter "Cross Fade"Click "Find All" and all the audio crossfades in the sequence will be selectedPress Delete

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Thanks for the One NoteI am now a happy fellow. I have Vista purring, I have Office 2007 Ultimate with One Note 2007 (thanks Jim!) and what a job they have done on One Note. I thought Office 2007 was a great upgrade before, when running on XP, but here in its natural habitat it is just marvellous!

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I take it all back.On a machine that can handle it Vista is a dream. I have to admit that I have come close to saying ¨wow¨ on a couple of occasions. Oh allright, I admit I did actually say ¨wow¨...despite saying that I don't think I will be able to resist installing it on my Centrino Toshiba Portege even though it only gets a score of 1...

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Bloody typicalIts as if they know!Last night I successfuly installed Vista an my MacBook (and got VPN working so I can access the Exchange server) Because - at the time - only BootCamp 1.1.2 was available I hd to install all the drivers for Vista by hand.As I patted myself on the back and surfed the web on the newly Vista-ised MacBook (gets a a score of 3) I see this; http://www.apple.com/macosx/

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Tonight I install Vista on my MacBookThree years ago I was stuck, jetlagged, in a Hilton in Palm Springs with time on my hands and a free broadband connection. I had spotted a copy of Suse Linux on the shelf in a Best Buy and, intrigued at Linux available in a high street store, bought it. That night, with some apprehension, I followed the install instructions and allowed it to rezize my NTFS

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If your XSERVE RAID won't respond or a NIC is missing; try this1.Use RAID Admin to turn off the Xserve RAID.2.If cache backup batteries are installed, pull them slightly out of the RAID.3.Disconnect the power cables from both power supplies.4.After 10 to 20 seconds, reconnect the power cables and start the Xserve RAID.5.All LEDs on both controllers should turn back on.6.Reinstall the cache backup

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This is such a great idea. I have always felt bad that I don't document stuff that I know or find out in more detail so people can search for it on the web in the way I search for knowledge when I need it. If I contribute here, then I need never worry again!  Link to wikiHow - The How-To Manual That Anyone Can Write or Edit

Ruperthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027451882289109606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093441.post-70680618405460394942007-03-17T15:07:00.001Z2007-03-17T15:07:14.040Z

Is a great blog if you are interested in keeping track on Google's progress taking over the world. Googling Google Additionally Microsoft Windows Notepad is great

Ruperthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027451882289109606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093441.post-40885685606889471452007-03-15T20:48:00.001Z2007-03-29T07:52:08.713Z

Network home creation under OS X ServerAlways remember to turn on AFP, set up Sharing and make the Home folder repository a Network mount for Home folders when setting up Home folders on OSX Also remember that Group folders only get made once every 24 hours so if you have created a Group Folder you need to issue the CreateGroupFolder command in the CLI to make one immediately.When creating the

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I love Marks and Spencer's Fruity Moroccan CousCous, try it if you ever get the chance. It is delicious!

Ruperthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027451882289109606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093441.post-33490091459207319412007-03-15T20:46:00.001Z2007-03-29T07:53:15.526Z

Creating custom OS X installation DVD from NetBootI discovered something rather clever about Netboot today.You can turn a NetBoot image for Mac OS X into a standalone DVD installer! This means that we can create a perfectly crafted OS X machine for a customer and then image it as a Netboot image and burn that NBI to a DVD as an installer package. If we supply that DVD to the customer they can -

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ABANDONED VISTABugger it. I reinstalled XP. Now the kids and wife are happy and they can play games again and I can VPN into the office and see mail server and other servers.A shame as I liked it but I dont have time to iron out the quirks and I cant be without VPN while that bug is squashed...I am liking the look of OS X Leopard, though. A colleague has it installed and I can see it in my

Ruperthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027451882289109606noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093441.post-44964716692730722132007-02-01T21:07:00.001Z2007-02-01T21:07:55.019Z

Where is my server?I can VPN in to the office, and I can see the domain has been picked up Vista's nifty little network widget but the blessed thing is secured so tight I cant frigging find any of the office servers. Not even if I open the elderly run window. This is not the sort of thing that it is easy to search for in the help, but here I go.

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Where on earth is One Note?When I tried to buy Office 2007 upgrade there were none - apart from the student edition - that had One Note as part of the deal. I want Office standard to have One Note; why wouldn't it?

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Looks like I might manage a clean install after all.Thanks to Saul - sorry I missed your leaving drink by the way - for this link that poijnts out that there is a way to perform a clean install even with an upgrade key. I am squeaky clean and have a licensed copy of XP (it came with the Dell) so I think I am allowed to give this a go. Pity it wasnt in the Quick Start Guide in the box. That guide

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No webmail replies for me til Gee pulls his finger out ;-)I love the internet; somone has usually had the problem before and soved it. I spent the day a bit frustrated that I would go to reply to email in IE7 on Vista only to get the little red cross of a buggered web page and an error on the page. I realised it was most likely due to the ActiveX component required not running properly in IE7 for

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One occassionally receives emails asking generally about jobs etc and on the whole I don't tend to reply to them but on this occassion I was inclined to do so and it appears to have been wel received so here it is in case there is anyone else out there who harbours the same - strange - ambition to work for a company like mine...I LOVE your response! Straight up, clear, precise, tangible. I'll

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Vista Virus protectionWhy, when it identifies you have no anti virus and takes you to the recommendation page does it not include the AVG page where AVG Free is fully Vista compatible?!?

Ruperthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027451882289109606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093441.post-22018208359711506832007-01-31T02:15:00.000Z2007-01-31T02:17:23.440Z

Vista unlimitedWhere on earth is the built in PDF reader for goodness sake?!? What year is this? I have installed all this nice looking OS stuff and there is no native pdf reader? WTF!

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Vista continuedRight I am buggered. I cannot expand the C: partition as it is the boot partition. As I suspect Vista and my (modest) 8GB of transferred data (it worked so far) consumes 38 of the 48GB I have on the C: drive. I have deleted and formatted the Linux partition but it is a pain in the butt that I could not do that during an upgrade clean install.Although now I have deleted the

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installing vista Well, I fell for it and went and bought Vista from PC World on the first day of release for the home computer. Partly because I was passing and the PC World opposite Warren Street was heaving with Microsofties taking the day off work and outnumbering customers...So, I get home and discover I need a new graphic card; no surprise there. Quick trip to eBay via the ATI site and I

Ruperthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027451882289109606noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093441.post-62421841430039519172007-01-28T23:26:00.001Z2007-01-28T23:26:45.772Z

 If you ever need to split or join Real, AVI, WMV files then this is the place boilsoft's web site

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I sprayed coffee all over my monitor when I opened this up; I particuarly like the "fornicate with your actual genitals" and the "Your World; sorry about that" lines. Link to Get a First Life: A One Page Satire of Second Life

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This is a remarkable web site; tell it an artist you like and it creates a radio station based on the artist and similar ones. You can mix "stations" and interact with the decisions made to refnie the music it slects for you... I confess I am impresses, although they didn't know about King Kurt as an artist but then I guess that was a bit of localised London '80s rockabilly nonsense... Here are

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Mr Hawk hands out priceless consultancy to Yahoo Search (and anyone else who is interested in how much better/useful search could be made. I love the idea of searching for a band or celeb and seeing if they are playing near or in the future or on TV and being able to set the Tivo right out of the search engine results!  Link to Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection

Ruperthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027451882289109606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093441.post-61872842566126682252007-01-12T08:56:00.001Z2007-01-12T08:56:11.687Z

before the iPhone there was this. Well, well, well. There was a very thoughtful discussion of opensource (and the fact that us Brits are missing the boat) on  "In Business" by the ever wired Peter Day on Radio 4 last night.

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Maybe this web site is it (thanks James) but it occurs to me that in any major city there should be room for a store whose MSP is that it sells "everything clockwork" tag line? "no batteries needed"   In a city that has room for a restaurant that serves only humus or risotto then there's got to be room for a store that only sells clockwork gizmos. Maybe I should open one (in another life where I

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pocketmod is clever idea based on folding up a bit of paper. Who knew it could be so compelling. There's life in the old dog yet ;-) My kids love the neat and tininess of them. There's something in the soul of little children that loves a notepad/booklet all your own. This fits the bill so totally.   And on a paper-folding tip - paperplanes like these are irresistible to my six year old son. I

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This is great idea, but where is the open source version? I want the professor of art history's guide to the National Portrait Gellery not some anonymous nasal american tourist voice. I want Sister Wendy's homebrew podcast and I want a web site that aggregates all those user generated podguides - did I invent a new word for the genre, did I? er, no. A trip to the $29 million dollar search bar -

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This guy should be fired as "Communications Editor" as he has missed the most fundamentally important ramification of the iPhone; the coming together of a means of billing people for the music they buy with the gadget they can play it on. The iPod that you listen to music on will be inside a device that is attached to a network that has a billing mechanism in place to charge you for the music you

Ruperthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027451882289109606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093441.post-49284293389572578552007-01-10T23:26:00.001Z2007-01-10T23:29:14.670Z

This is an astonishing story of customer support. Link to Avid-L2 : Messages : 16295-28984 of 28985

Ruperthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027451882289109606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093441.post-69419991178555970832007-01-10T19:40:00.001Z2007-01-10T19:40:33.249Z

 On the whole Avid have been doing a lot right recently and they have (finally) added an RSS feed for important knowledgebase updates. Click the link and look to the right for the get updates link!

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This is the post production codec. The fellow behind it is a copperbottomed genius! Check out his isophonous poetry; where do these people find the time?  Link to BitJazz: Products: SheerVideo

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Netgear and Bittorrent are getting it on in the set top box arena. Things are hotting up what with Apple entering the fray; I guess the key differentiator will be brand and content. Looks good for the BBC and Azureus. Who will hook up with Democracy? When I saw Mark Thompson speak about this last year he as good as said the iTunes deal was done so the next year will be interesting... The piece

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 Avid have the pedal to the metal at the moment; not only are they knocking out bug fix releases at a rapid clip but they have got a Mac Intel version out the door earlier than anyone expected Link to Avid open beta announcement

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Oh dear. I really am a Wired reader, Phil. I had to look and now I want one too. Not sure how you stop it getting scratched to hell, though.  Link to Apple - iPhone - iPod

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Scripting News: 1/9/2007  It is interesting to read the thoughts of people who are so thoroughly engaged in the West Coast computer industry. This post is very clear eyed about what makes for a street smart company. There is no doubt that being seen as the underdog is no bad thing either.   Like the post as I do, I have to admit that I have no desire for an iphone, am very happy with  my current

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Toshiba have announced an HD DVD burner for desktop PCs. Now Phil's PVR can record all week!While they were at it - it's CES after all - they announced a USB powered external 2.5 inch disk that will sell for about $140

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Woohoo, I can project from my mobile!These fellows appear to be on the way to a breaktrhough, and what a beakthrough it is

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Its been in the wind for a while but Hitachi have announced the 1TB drive; I wonder which enterprise storage vendors will be brave enough to use it?

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Interesting commentary on the anticipated Apple phoneThe Register has some interesting things to say about the possible future of an Apple cell phone

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The ultra wide band future may be upon usApparently the final certification process by the WiMedia Alliance is the only remaining hurdle between the manufacturers and mass commercialisation.The immediate market — for which many vendors have already designed products and are ready to launch — is for wireless USB dongles and hubs to retrofit existing USB products. That will be the majority of

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Good Gravy, who knew?Reading the blog of the Mozilla Foundation chairman at he says they are good for fifty million dollars!He says "In 2005 the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation combined had revenue from all sources of $52.9M" All from that little search box top right!I knew that was how they made money and that they were one of the open sources financial success stories but I had no

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These guys are working towards a better computing world; http://www.codeweavers.com/products/Although the list of apps that it truly works flawlessly with is not massive $39 is not a lot of money to spend to save re-buying a Windows app or being able to use one that may not be available on the Mac.

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A proud boast indeed; here you find the only penis enlargement company offering phone and live chat support day or night. I bet that would make a change from taking Avid support calls.Welcome to: Pills Expert And in case you were wondering I came across this in a Google related search accident ;-)

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You know all those 1-800-PIZZA numbers in the US? Well here's a handy tool to see if by happy chance your number spells something What does your phone number spell?

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My colleague James has been hard at work on an MMS blogging client - the results of his labours are here AtomicLava Home It looks a bit like this idea's time appears to have come, this Irish company appear to be well on the way to soliciting interest from cell phone operators User Experience, mobile phone website blogging and they have glossy pdf too foneblog pdf And there's also this

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I have always had trouble keeping tabs on Apple and their OS. Here is a good idea; they mail the latest entries to their KB to anyone who cares to subscribe. Such a good idea that we have been doing it at root6 for over five years now ;-) If you want to get spammed by Apple - here's where to get it www.lists.apple.com Mailing Lists

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I bought an old IBM Thinkpad at auction the other day. Phil recommended Red Hat as an OS. Here's why...Linux on the IBM ThinkPad

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Whether you have decided it is nonsense or you are not sure, take a look at the Make Trade Fair web site and do a bit of background reading - you never know, those fluffy hippies might have a point ...www.maketradefair.com

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Flash cartoons Camp Chaos - Collectible Trading Cards

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Need a flight case? These boys are the ones Case Design

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Attracted by the great domain name I clicked on this from amongst other Google findings. Upon my soul; a genuinely brilliant web site. Full of all the half-baked ideas people have written down, commented on and recorded for posterity - or perhaps people with enough get up and go to follow them up - to benefit from. Check it out at the half bakery.com Here are a couple of typical entries Good

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This is the Microsoft support KB entry on the sharing subject as well 304040 - Description of File Sharing and Permissions in Windows XP

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Researching permissions on XP and the ability to use a network shared drive as a NAS-alike I happened on this rather useful site. Very handy explanation of shares and access control lists on XPWinXP Pro File Sharing

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No idea who is behind this blog, but it is very funny. Especially the one about God and George Bush Pesky the Rat

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My daughters really love Lauren Child's character Clarice Bean, she has a unique style and voice. The typography and layout of the books is proving very influential. If you have young daughters see if they like Clarice Bean; I bet they will. Lauren Child - David Higham Associates

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michael morpurgo is a bit of a hero. He is now childrens' laureate in 2003. His web site links to his and other great childrens' books The Children's Laureate

Ruperthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027451882289109606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093441.post-1069413694433809992003-11-21T11:21:00.000Z2003-11-21T11:22:36.183Z

Looking for more info on Dolby as it is used in cinema (as opposed to DVD) and John Ball at Microsoft pointed me here. Now, that is what I call a resource. Apparently it is where projectionists in the US go for information when the need it. Film-Tech

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This is a percipient take on the whole iTunes 99 cents music download mullarkey The Register

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Now, here is a web site full of fruity goodness. Complete Guide to Bananas / History of Bananas / Banana Recipes / How to Grow Bananas / Banana Trees

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I spent the day at Men From Mars checking out how they are using the Clipster It is very liberating watching 2K downconverted and played back on an HD and a PAL monitor at the same time.

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Reading Kevin Marks inspired me to actually get on with it and start a blog of my own and see where it takes itself

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