Thanks to The Independent for this quote: It is so much cheaper to alleviate poverty, put kids in school, fight disease, build government and economic capacity in a poor country, than it is to fight a warBill Clinton to the Labour Party Conference Well said, Mr President.
Monthly Archive: September 2006
Sep
28
2006
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Sep
22
2006
Connected Nottingham
On my way between Nottingham and Beeston his afternoon, I decided to use my LifeDrive to see how many open and unencrypted Wi-Fi hotspots I could find. There were quite a few. For people who live in the area, this was along the 36 bus route, down Derby Road and then wiggling into Beeston town …
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Sep
21
2006
The brave new world in which we live
Glad Roger pointed this out. The government continues to use and abuse the media (who, in some cases, are all to willing to help) to keep the ambient fear level in society high. Why, you may ask, would a government want to do that? Well, the more afraid of whoever the current boogeyman is (it’s …
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Sep
21
2006
Housekeeping
Apologies to Fred and Narayan for the delay in switching to their new blog locations on Planet SUSE, it’s now done. Anyone got a spare 5,000 Euro?
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Sep
19
2006
Tuesday
Well, it’s about time I said this here for anyone reading this to see. Amanda’s pregnant and the baby is due at the end of January. We’re both very excited about this new stage in our life together and as a family and look forward to the, hopefully healthy, arrival of our son or daughter. …
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Sep
08
2006
Alpha4
ISO images are downloaded and ready to go: ogley@riggwelter:/home/install/ISO/openSUSE/10.2/Alpha4> md5sum * 1adbb29f42572edc67ff7dd25848be6b openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4-Addon-BiArch.iso 1ce1d5963a18ec0cb2c8bfb450077e70 openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4-i386-CD1.iso 4e9781a8e1f4af9cb67857e5c3d81761 openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4-i386-CD2.iso a60613037c2a7b38b67c0014adee0f7d openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4-i386-CD3.iso 54e9d9d2ef0286e57457a690b7db3a12 openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4-i386-CD4.iso bb24d4c25126c43d9b499f88050f360f openSUSE-10.2-Alpha4-i386-CD5.iso So, either over the weekend or, more likely, next week I’ll be installing it.
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Sep
07
2006
Spoke too soon…
Alex released Tomboy 0.4.1 less than 24 hours after I built 0.4.0 . The packages are currently building. I forgot about the non-OSS ISO that forms part of each Alpha/Beta release, I may grab the images later on.
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Sep
07
2006
Lizard heads
Updated some packages yesterday. tomboy‘s now at 0.4.0 which is the version in GNOME 2.16. gimp-unstable got a rebuild because of a small mistake I’d made in the script that launches it correctly when parallel installed with the stable gimp package. The mistake meant that double-clicking an image didn’t open it in the GIMP, it …
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Sep
04
2006
I’m at war with Hotmail!
That’s right folks, I found a new reason to hate them! You see, they think I’m a spammer (I’m not, of course). Or, at least, their dumb-ass filter does. Basically it seems to be any mail sent from my home server. It can’t be (I hope) that it’s on a blacklist because it’s not an …
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