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09
November

Touchscreen for the Wind

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The next improvement to my MSI Wind U100 has arrived! A touch screen that requires no solder to fit and sits in nicely. I ordered it from FidoHub, the screens product page is http://www.fidohub.com/product.php?prod_id=46&sort3=
FidoHub gave me a FedEx tracking number so I was able to track the screen from Taipei City right till it arrived [...]

22
October

Windows 7 on my PC

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Well today is windows 7 release day, so i woke up this morning logged into my student email (used the £30 student deal on pro upgrade) to get my download link and product key.
After using works internet to download it i realised that it was a .exe installer so i would need a copy of [...]

11
June

Work Rant

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As some of you may know i work as an IT Technician for multiple primary schools in the local area, the jobs that i do in the schools vary massively, from the bigger schools where im sorting out thier virtual server so that if thier main server dies i have a backup of AD, to [...]

24
May

New TF2 Unlocks System

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Those of you that play TF2 will have noticed that there is now unlocks for the sniper and spy! As with the past updates i launched TF2 and joined one of my usual servers and started picking people off from the other side of the map as a sniper. 8 achivements later i was looking [...]

03
April

New Machine, New Scripts

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As i said in my last post i am retiring the eee and getting an MSI Wind as a replacement. Well the Wind turned up on wednesday and i have to say im impressed. I really do like the Wind, the keyboard is small, but not too small, unlike the eee im not pressing the [...]

31
March

Retiring the eee

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After a couple of weeks of thinking ive decided to retire the eee. Its had a good run but its 2GB HDD has been a persistant flaw and i got rather annoyed when it consitently shot down my hopes of getting fedora onto it, i eventually settled for eeeBuntu but the usual ubuntu annoyances got [...]

17
December

Distros For the EEE

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the past couple of weeks ive been trying to get a good stable distro onto my eee. Now im not really fussed about the distro i use so i set some simple rules for what i need the distro to do:

Have X and XFCE or Gnome, preferabbly gnome.
Support all the hardware in the eee (WIRELESS!!!!!!)
Be [...]

21
April

IRC Channel

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For the IRC bots that i have made i have setup and IRC channel on freenode. The host for this channel is of cource irc.freenode.net and the channel name is #whitefall
The bot that currently hangs around on this channel is called “Verbend” and is coded in Ruby. Its predecessor “Whitefall” was coded in PHP
This is [...]

06
April

Welcome to my Blog!

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Welcome to my blog!
I will be posting allot of things here mostly it will be links to things i find on the internet, aswell as my take on the solution/problem!
I will also be posting tutorials mainly for PHP, but i hope to be learning RUBY soon.