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All your base conference
tl;dr The All Your Base database conference in Oxford was great. I went to it. I recently went along to the fantastic All Your Base database conference which happened in Oxford on 23 November 2012. If you don't get the reference, then you ahould read up on the all your base are belong to us me …
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Podcast: Radio New Internationalist digital freedom podcast
I recently featured, with Hazel Healy and Amy Hall in the New Internationalist podcast. I talked about privacy, the battle for a free internet and Free Software amongst other stuff. You can read more in the December Internet Showdown issue of New Internationalist magazine.The blurb from …
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Split multi-page PDFs into single page PDFs on GNU/Linux with pdftk
Is there a nice way to split a multi-page PDF into its constituent pages? Its a question that comes up more often than you would think. Of course you could point some proprietary software at it, or you could do the job by hand. But there is a lovely free software way to do it, so you would be sor …
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Of Birthday Problems, Haskell and Floating Point Precision
Learning Haskell by working my way through the Real World Haskell book and the huge variety of online resources recently has reignited my curiosity about “proper” computer science. The sort with maths. I’ve picked up most of my maths as a side effect of hacking code, so I have b …
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November 2012 Reading
I am working my way through this quite slowly. It is what I would describe as a nontrivial tome. I reckon it weighs in at a couple of kilos. And there is maths. And I am translating the ML code into Haskell as I go. But it is well w …
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Motherboard details from the GNU/Linux commandline
A quick bit of commandline-fu today. And a trick that I always spend ages having to search the web for. Its often the case that you want to find the exact serial number or model or chipset of your motherboard. There is a wonderful command called dmidecode which fetches the DMI data from your mach …
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Review — Kingstone Press Cider
I picked up a bottle of this from my local Iceland on a whim. The plastic bottle ought really to have sounded alarm bells, I suppose, but one must suffer for one’s art. Besides there were claims about the cider’s origin in the Hereford part of the Malver …
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Gnome 3 Nautilus Tip — Make the Delete Key Delete Files
I recntly upgraded my desktop to Debian Wheezy — I like the description of it on the release page, which says Wheezy is currently in a state called testing. That means that things should not break as badly as in unstable or experimental distributions… Heh. Anyhow, it ships with …
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Review — Rockingham Forest Red Kite Cider
It turns out that yesterday was apple day here in the UK. So it was rather appropriate that I posted a review of the sweet and lovely Gwynt Y Ddraig Celtic Warrior cider. Today I returned on a whim to the F …
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Review — Gwynt Y Ddraig Celtic Warrior
It was something of a surprise to me to wander in to the pub for a cheeky pint after browsing round Blackwells to be greated by a bar serving 24 — count ’em, 24 — different ciders. Such was t …
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