Charlie Harvey

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  • Dual Head on Debian Squeeze with nouveau and xrandr

    I recently got myself a 24-inch monitor. I wanted to keep using my trusty 17 inch as well - to use as a secondary monitor for system monitoring, playing music and other background tasks. There is a closed-source nvidia driver. But I’ll be using the open source nouveau driver (after trying with …

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  • Samba: IP Alias Servers On Debian

    Note: This post was written in 2008. It might or might not still work. I’ve not had time to test. YMMV!This is a mini-howto which shows one way to get round an annoying bug in mount.cifs that doesn't look like getting fixed any time soon.When using smbmount you can have …

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  • Gmail de-ad greasemonkey script

    NOTE Google changed the gmail API some time ago. I haven't been able to suss out how and they haven't documented it. So I’m no longer able to support this project. My apologies.This Greasemonkey script hides the right hand side ads on gmail and widens the email bit. You'll need to install …

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  • 3. 6th Sept. Lookin’ A Twat

    RE: Prime MinisterHey Gordy,I just got your Look at me, I’m Gordon Brown, wahey! leaflet from my local MP, Andy Pandy Smith. You wanna watch that one by the way - he voted against Trident not long ago. I think he may be one of those free-thinking anarchists like at the climate …

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  • Daily Mail Story Generator

    I was at the Climate Camp, reading the Evening Standard's account of how militants intended to hijack the camp to eat babies or something when it occurred to me that Daily Mail, Express and Standard journos could be replaced by a relatively trivial perl script. So, may I present the Daily Mail …

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  • 2. 9th August My Cabinet USPs

    RE: Its me Gordon, remember?Hi Gordon,Its been ages, when are you going to get back to me?Its almost as if you don't want me in your cabinet! Just to remind you of my unique selling points as the business community would have it.I wash my feet in disinfectant all the time, honest, so …

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  • Dear Prime Sinister ...

    I thought that it may be fun to write to the Prime Sinister every now and again. He hasn't yet written back despite my generous offer to join his cabinet of all the talents. …

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  • Climate Change

    Climate change is real. Human beings are contributing to it. It is killing 150,000 people a year. These are poor people in poor countries. They produce far fewer emissions than rich people in rich countries but suffer the worst effects of climate change. This is a class issue, a power issue, a just …

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