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e17 on Ubuntu Revisited
Ever since my original post on installing Enlightenment E17 on Debian and Ubuntu things have changed, such as the server that hosted the package repositories for both Debian & Ubuntu going off-line...
View ArticleUpdate on Enlightenment E17 for Debian
Update: I’ve decided to use Falko’s packages, see my posting here: http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/04/24/e17-on-debian/ If you want to run E17 on Debian you have 4 choices (as of April 2008): Wait for...
View ArticleE17 on Debian
Quickie install instructions: Add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list: # repo from Falko Schmidt: deb http://debian.alphagemini.org/ unstable main This will also require you to have...
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Interview with Rasterman of Enlightenment Fame
An interview with Rasterman on OSnews, founder of Enlightenment, on E17: http://www.osnews.com/story/19679 When will E17 be released? … does Rasterman have any timeframe in mind for the release of the...
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Boston JazzWeek Finale!
At Berklee Performance Center on Saturday the 3rd of May the finale of Boston’s 2nd Jazz week will be held. Tickets in advance are $10: http://www.jazzboston.org/about/jazzweek2008-highlights.asp...
View ArticleKey missing?
If you get this error message: W: GPG error: http://people.debian.org unstable Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 212253A4F641D1A6...
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NYC Irish Famine Memorial
A very unique design. It’s supposed to be a ruined house on a hill in Ireland. You walk around the base of the memorial, towards the water. Go through a short tunnel, which has speakers playing the...
View ArticleFriends on Last.fm
Some friends from my home town in Ireland are in bands! So I’ve 2 Last.fm pages to refer to you. First Pavesi: http://www.last.fm/music/Pavesi And Serial Twin: http://www.last.fm/music/Serial+Twin If...
View ArticleDigging a hole
Sandy digging a hole at the lake: Sorry if the music sounds a little wonky. Music extract is probably copywritted by the Estate of Jimi Hendrix.
View ArticlePresentations and Time
This is a common mistake that people do when given presentations, they run out of time. This appears to mainly be because they’ve written their persentation (usually on PowerPoint) and haven’t done a...
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Old Donegal Town
A while back I scanned some old postcards of Donegal Town that I borrowed from my Aunty Isabel. They’ve been pretty popular on flickr.com, with this one getting over 900 views: And this one getting...
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At the Backstrands
On Sunday Jeannie, me sister, and I went to Murvagh beach on a lovely sunny afternoon (or the Backstrands as me Dad used to call it). We spend about 2 hours paddling in the water and walking along the...
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Lenovo Laptop?
I’m thinking of getting a new laptop either the Lenova ThinkPad T400 (which is a replacement for the T61), or the IdeaPad U330 to replace my aging Dell 700m The big thing for me is do they work with...
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But I don’t want a PDF?
WTF is Citibank thinking with their web interface: When I’m looking at my old statements I don’t want to have to wait for a PDF to download, then for Adobe Acrobat to open just so I can briefly look at...
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Debian’s e17 Packages
I thought I’d start looking at using Debian’s experimental E17 packages. I commented out all other E17 repo’s from my source.list and installed the debian e17 package. It installs a minimal amount of...
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I figured it’s time for me to try and install kde4 again! Previously I had to remove KDE4 due to package conflicts. There are installation instructions at:...
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Support Pine Street Inn
Support Boston’s Pine Street Inn this year and buy holidays cards based on a photograph I took: http://www.pinestreetinn.org/news.php?id=343 The photograph also came 24th in the Boston Globe’s 2008...
View ArticleDell Laptops & Ubuntu
I’d heard that Dell were offering Ubuntu Linux on some of their laptops and I hadn’t really looked into it. But I came across this page the other day and it’s pretty neat to get Ubuntu (or any Linux)...
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