Category Archives: GNU/Linux

How hard can typing æ, ø and å be?

2018-02-21 by mjr

Petter Reinholdtsen: How hard can æ, ø and å be? comments on the rubbish state of till printers and their mishandling of foreign characters. Last week, I was trying to type an email, on a tablet, in Dutch. The tablet … Continue reading →

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Recorrecting Past Mistakes: Window Borders and Edges

2015-05-14 by mjr

A while ago, I switched from tritium to herbstluftwm. In general, it’s been a good move, benefitting from active development and greater stability, even if I do slightly mourn the move from python scripting to a shell client. One thing … Continue reading →

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GPG Transition Statement

2014-12-30 by mjr

Rather late but I guess that just confirms it’s really me, right? 😉 The signed text and IDs should be at http://mjr.towers.org.uk/transition-statement.txt Thank you if you help me out here 🙂 I’ll resign keys in a while.

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Send updates to live cycling news reports to the speech synth

2013-09-29 by mjr

The BBC coverage of the UCI Women Road Race World Championship wasn’t starting until 3pm, BBC Radio 5 Live had football and Sports Extra was playing an advert loop (really BBC?), Eurosport wasn’t covering the race at all, RAI Sport … Continue reading →

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Upgrading to Debian 7 wheezy

2013-09-13 by mjr

So I have upgraded my main workstation at last, but there are a few things I wanted to figure out. Some of these I found an answer to, but others I haven’t and some answers open more questions: Where did … Continue reading →

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What’s the current state of Windows Anti-Virus?

2013-06-20 by mjr

One of our co-op’s clients asked me what I use for anti-virus at the moment and tips for what they should use on their Windows system. Well, flame me now, but I don’t actually use any anti-virus at the moment: … Continue reading →

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Wireless Networking on this Clevo

2013-03-22 by mjr

This Clevo laptop is a new machine and like a lot of new machines, not all of its hardware has drivers in the current stable release of debian. Happily, there is a driver for its rtl8723ae wireless networking device in … Continue reading →

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Debian Project Leader 2013 election campaign links: part 1

2013-03-15 by mjr

This is basically a link-post to the Debian Project Leader election email discussions on GMANE’s blog-style interface to debian-vote. After only 3 days of the 21, there’s already a pageful, so if I don’t start collecting links now, I’ll probably … Continue reading →

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Clevo 7872-9040/A built Jan 13 with Debian 6

2013-02-08 by mjr

My trusty Asus seems to have succumbed to graphic fault. I got an OS-free Zoostorm as its replacement, to avoid paying the MS tax. Zoostorm is one brand that Clevo laptops are sold under. It was actually a Clevo 7872-9040/A … Continue reading →

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One of them, one of us

2013-02-07 by mjr

Interesting stuff is happening again and I’m doing a bit of travelling where I’m not driving much, so I can write some blog posts. If this train stops bouncing quite so much! I think most readers are interested in technology … Continue reading →

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