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Twitter account suspended

August 13, 2009

23:31 [nick] man nice 23:31 [nick] my twitter account has been suspended 23:31 [nighty-] lol wtf 23:31 [nighty-] why? 23:31 [Durz|lnx] oh noes 23:31 [nick] no idea 23:31 [Durz|lnx] gonna be climbing the walls within a couple of days 23:31 [Durz|lnx] trainspotting style I’ve been a pretty keen user of Twitter for about 18 months [...]

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Fever Sleeve

July 1, 2009

A decent RSS client is one of those must-have applications in my experience (if you value keeping up with anything on the Internet that is), something that let’s you quickly sort the wheat from the chaff, save time by not having to browse sites individually, and consolidate all that information flow into one place on [...]

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Gmail, mutt, and archival / deletion of mails

June 24, 2009

My usual system of managing emails is pretty simple. Anything that I need to follow up or reference in the near future lives in my Inbox. If it’s something I want to save, it gets archived out of the way and I can search for it later. Pretty easy, right? This is straightforward when using [...]

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DHCP and hostnames in Mac OS X

May 4, 2009

This is a cheap (and nasty?) hack for ignoring a DHCP server’s hostname suggestion when using Mac OS X. Add this line into /etc/hostconfig: HOSTNAME=”deadline” Obviously change the value to something other than the name of my laptop (deadline). The comment at the top of this file concerns me, but it works for now – [...]

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IMAP timeouts with Gmail and mutt

April 15, 2009

Quick tip: If you’re suffering from annoying timeout issues when using mutt to read your Googlemail over IMAP then try the following setting in your .muttrc: set imap_keepalive=5 This solved the issue for me.

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Twitter Hatred

March 16, 2009

My hate for Twitter is growing. It’s recently subsided following a lamer purge with me removing people like @bobbyllew (his idiocy has pretty much ruined the Kryten character for me), @stephenfry, @wossy and so on. The daily minutiae of these people really don’t concern me, and once the novelty factor has worn off it’s just [...]

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Wireless networking in ‘modern’ Linux is fucking braindead.

February 10, 2009

Last night, in what can only be described as a moment of technical sadism, I decided to reinstall a Linux distribution on my PC. Actually truth is I pretty much despise using Windows but I’m bored of having to hook up my MacBook everytime I want to get on with something other than games. So [...]

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Unintentional insight

February 4, 2009

You’ve probably noticed that it’s been snowing a bit as of late, and with that comes the typical flood of news with an array of idiots weighing in on what we should or should not be doing. Here’s one choice comment made a Margaret Morrissey, who represents the ‘Parents Outloud’ campaign group, when talking about [...]

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Internet addiction

November 24, 2008

A combination of the winter evenings drawing in, having no Internet at home, and me now finding myself with a fair mount of free time on my hands means that I’ve decided to catch up on some gaming and play some of the new titles that have been released recently. Lack of Internet sucks for [...]

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Silver surfer switchers

November 15, 2008

On a whim I’ve recently purchased one of the new unibody MacBooks, and it’s a fantastic piece of kit. The idea was to sell my ‘old’ MacBook (a blackbook with 4GB of RAM) for a decent price to someone I know, but a combination of the original easy sale falling through, having to face eBay, [...]

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