Monthly Archives: December 2011 - Page 2

Irssi improved notification script

I don’t use IRC very much, but when I do, I use Irssi. I don’t bother with a lot of customisation, and just use adv_windowlist.pl just to tidy up the display a little more. However, I do like the irssi-libnotify …

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Skype Problems on Ubuntu 64 11.10

I have to use Skype as part of my normal working day, and to keep in touch with family in the UK, so it’s a pain when it doesn’t work. After the upgrade to 11.10 and the new 3.0 kernel, …

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Ubuntu 64 Minimal Install Upgrades

I’ve been running Ubuntu 64 installed from the minimal install for about 4 months now, and have been slowly tweaking it to get it just how I want to be. This mainly came about after a…not quite disastrous, but certainly …

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Ubuntu 11.04 and Unity – Awesome WM to the rescue

I do remember being ever-so excited about 11.04 coming out, and how completely unimpressed I was with Unity. My super fast PC (it particularly felt that way after coming to Ubuntu from Windows even though it’s a fairly average spec …

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Linux and specifically, Ubuntu

About a year ago I found I was doing much more server admin tasks and these were all using Linux servers. I’d inherited the job of server admin when someone left the team I was working in at the time …

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Here comes another one

Yet another attempt to start up a blog. I’ve been learning a lot recently with various computer related themes such as coding, and Linux, and so forth. Some of it has been useful, and some has been a bit tricky …

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