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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS – experimenting with overcommit

Posted on May 14, 2011 by alex

I currently running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS as my desktop. Neither Unity nor GNOME Shell (in GNOME 3) really interest me, but that’s for another post! This one is about the exasperation I feel when Linux overcommits too much memory and … Continue reading →

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So Microsoft is buying Skype …

Posted on May 11, 2011 by alex

Yesterday (10 May 2011), news broke that Microsoft is paying $8.5B for Skype (or roughly £5.2B in English).  Skype is a rather good, if proprietary, telephony/conferencing app that is multi-platform. It currently works on Windows, of course, but also on … Continue reading →

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MyIET – not another networking silo, please

Posted on November 27, 2010 by alex

The  IET, or Institution of Engineering and Technology, is introducing ‘MyIET’, which is a member’s personal portal on the IET website. However, it’s also got status updates like twitter, a discussions and comments forum, etc. It looks like they have … Continue reading →

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Putting CM6 (Android 2.2 Froyo) on a UK Vodafone HTC Magic

Posted on September 26, 2010 by alex

I’ve got an HTC Magic by Vodafone in the UK. It’s a very nice phone. Unfortunately, it is also abandonware. It is now virtually out of contract. And before I rooted it and put CM6 on it, it was stuck … Continue reading →

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Abandoning Twidroyd

Posted on July 11, 2010 by alex

Twidroyd/Twidroid is a Twitter application for the Android platform.  I really quite liked it, until they were bought by Tweetup.  Why?  Well, during the name change they added a huge EULA.  However, the important part is (highlighted part by me): … Continue reading →

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About Googlegate

Posted on June 17, 2010 by alex

I was reading this at El Reg. I like Privacy International. I share many of the same values but I’m not sure that Alexander Hanff has any idea of how code is written at Google. I don’t, but I’d hazard … Continue reading →

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Migrating Mail – Part 1

Posted on June 13, 2010 by alex

At the time of writing, June 2010, I run my own mail server.  I started running my own mail server when commercial providers didn’t have good spam detection, didn’t store much mail and weren’t as convenient as using your own … Continue reading →

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Opinion: To iPad or not to iPad?

Posted on May 20, 2010 by alex

This is the first of two posts on Apple.  This one deals with their consumer products, the iPad, iPhone, etc.  The second deals with how I perceive they are relating to developers. Cory Doctorow wrote an interesting opinion piece on … Continue reading →

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Version Control: developing on branches rather than master/trunk

Posted on April 12, 2010 by alex

I’ve changed my mind.  It now seems that it is much more sensible to develop on branches rather than on master or trunk.  What am I on about? Well software source control or version control systems.  I tend to use … Continue reading →

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TDC kicks off to a 2nd great day

Posted on May 15, 2009 by alex

The Thinking Digital Conference kicked off to a great start on it’s second (and last) day.  The comedy of Tom Scott was a fabulous tonic to the rest of the first session which kicked off with an exploration od “Digital … Continue reading →

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