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Review — The Governor Cider
I have to admit that I was sceptical about a cider branded with the name of a celebrity chef. I picked the bottle up at a little after 9 AM in my local co-op on a bit of a whim to be honest. But, reading the label I saw that it wa …
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August 2012 Reading
Oh man. I am clearly going to look like a Charlie Stross fanboy. It ain’t every day you see a new Laundry novel in Blackwells though is it? So, dear reader, I bought it. Loved it. The bastard spawn of HP Lovecraft, Douglas Adams and Ian Flemi …
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July 2012 Reading
I am a big fan of the Introducing series. If you want to get your head around some topic in a general way without too much detail they are perfect. The Fractals book is pretty much what yo …
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Review — Gwynt y Ddraig Orchard Gold Cider
As regular readers know, I’m a big fan of trying new ciders from unexpected places, recently Scottish cider by Thistly Cross and Barkaiztegi Sagardo Naturala — a lovely Basque Cider. This time it was …
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Copying videos off Vimeo with bash
A lot of video people are hosting on Vimeo these days, it seems well featured reliable and fast, and it doen’t have quite the same psychotically disordered commenting culture as has developed at youtube. However, though there is good stuff to watch on there, not every video uploaded has …
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Tip: Blocking spam with iptables on GNU/Linux
Spam is a constant problem for me as a sys admin. Even after greylisting and denyhosts and fail2banning I still find myself wanting to deny access to the occasional ip address. The netfilter.org project iptables provides a pretty nice firewall for the Linux kernel. I often forget the syntax an …
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June 2012 Reading
Mark Thomas somehow manages to combine cheekiness with right on politics, and humour without ending up sounding preachy. This story of rambling round the entire Israeli is a mix of the tragic, horrendous and baffl …
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Review — Sainsburys Vintage Cider
It seems that Thatchers are doing a lot of cidermaking for supermarkets these days. You might remember I reviewed the vintage Somerset they were making for Marks & Sparks a while back. This is a ch …
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Review — Broadoak Bristol Port Cider
The Far from The Madding Crowd on a Sunday. Noisy, but with a decent wifi connection. Me and nor (she of the vegan chocolate reviews) had decided to do some working from home internet caff style laptopping. But not fr …
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Bash Tip: Remove a line from middle of file
This is a thing that I’ve wanted to do for ages, and it came up for me during this week'd episode of Hak5, which I am getting to be a big fan of by the way. The material under discussion was what to do when one of your known hosts changes. Darren was saying he was a bit slack and just did a …
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