Life is hard
Having finished my FYP I was hoping I could relax a little. But instead I find my timetable full because I’m having to trail everywhere and re-arrange my timetable so I can do all these job interviews....
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Burchett Place data centre
Before we flee from Burchett Place I thought I would post a few pictures of the current setup at Burchett Place. The internal network is gigabit, the external is fast ethernet all connected up by...
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Sunday saw the electricity company turn off our power for a few hours for maintenance. So rather than do it when everyone was out at work, they apparently decided to do it when everyone was home. So...
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Dual screen notebooks
Lenovo have just announced a dual-screen Thinkpad laptop which is rather cool indeed. Inside the main 17″ screen is a 10″ slide out screen which gives you extra space on your desktop which is becoming...
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Looking pretty
Continuing the ongoing efforts to get the technical set ready for Rationalist Week I’m currently busy installing software and configuring the computers that will be used during the week. As such they...
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Computer diary magic
As some of you know, despite being very much up on the whole computers thing that is going on these days, my diary remains very much on paper. I prefer it, I can easily add things and scribble things...
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Google wants your memory
By this point, most developers have realised that Firefox is a cludgey pile of crap that eats up all your memory, and made the switch to Chrome, those developer tools long since surpassed Firebug....
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Alan Turing: The Building of a Brain
For the March meeting of Leeds Skeptics, Professor Barry Cooper from the University of Leeds presented a talk entitled “Alan Turing: The Building of a Brain”.
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Usernames
Computer systems usually generate usernames based on a set pattern. Sometimes this can end badly. For example, at Buzz we tried out taking each person’s first name and the first letter of their...
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How to open the containing folder in Mac’s Spotlight Search
One of the irritating things about Spotlight Search in Mac is that you open want to open the folder that contains a file, but there is no obvious way to do this. Luckily, there is a non-obvious way....
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