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Review — Old Rosie Cider
I’m a firm believer in contextualising. So, here’s the back story. We’d been to watch a Disney film (no, really!) after a couple of beers in the Three Goats Heads and decided to go for a pint at the Turf. The Turf Tav …
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Drupal 7 web server performance shootout: nginx vs Apache
I was interested to see how nginx would play with Drupal 7 and how much performance boost I’d get as compared to Apache . As it turns out an extra ~50 requests a second and a lower overall system load (as measured by top).This is quite a high res screencast (thanks kazam!), so you might …
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HOWTO: Kazam ScreenCast Software on Dual Screen Debian Squeeze
Let’s start out by saying that there’s nowt wrong with gtkRecordMyDesktop as a screencasting tool. But it is a little old in the tooth, and perhaps suffers from an overly complex UI. So, I was interested to read Introducing a screencaster called Kazam, by andrew@thisblog, an ins …
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Tech Tools For Activists Booklet
Note: This article originally appeared on the New Internationalist Tech Blog and is reused under a Creative Commons Licence Given recent revelations of police spying on activists, the takedown of the fitwatch blog and the increasing use by police of social networking tools like facebook …
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Review — Sheppy’s Organic Cider
2011-01-23 by Charlie HarveyIts been a while since I reviewed a cider, but in a burst of ridiculous new year enthusiasm I decided to revive the practice. A recent wander to the Nosebag Café in the centre of Oxford led to my dining t …
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Thunderbird/Icedove sort order and delete order on Debian Squeeze
Its true. By default Icedove (that’s Thunderbird to non-Debianists) puts the newest emails at the bottom of the message list. This is wrong and evil (I may be exaggerating). It took me a while to find the proper solution and then a bit longer to figure out I needed to delete the .msf …
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2011 Reading
Here’s a list of books I read in 2011, by month. On the monthly page there’s quick review or synopsis of each book.Update 2011-02-25 I’ve realised that this page was going to get ridiculous by the end of the year, so I’ve split my reading lists up by month.Update …
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Debian Tip: Get Adobe Air working on 64—bit Squeeze
Lots of people seem to want to develop applications on the decidedly unfree Adobe Air platform. They provide a .deb for 32 bit systems but not for 64 bit systems. I wanted to check out some software from the dark side, and took a while to suss out what the provided deb needed to make it run …
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Vimperator Tip: Cut and paste with ctrl—c/ctrl—v
I’m a huge fan of the Vimperator Firefox plugin. It works just like you'd want it to and doesn't break much. Well, it breaks one useful thing, which is the almost universal ctrl-c/ctrl-v cut and paste shortcuts. So, I was well chuffed to find a Vimperator cut and paste tip on superuser. I̵ …
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Debian Tip: Get a list of all installed packages with dpkg
I like to make sure that I always have a listing of all the files I have on my Debian boxen. Fortunately dpkg has a quick way of doing just that. # dpkg --get-selections > /path/to/mybackup.txt I run that once a day or so as a cron job dumping to a file, that file will be in my usual rsync backup. …
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