Monthly Archives: July 2009

What Century Is This?

Posted on July 31, 2009 by Dan

Please forgive the forthcoming rant, but I wanted to relate my recent trials in trying to send some money to Germany via electronic transfer. As some of you will know I went to Germany last month to visit my …

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LinuxCon 2009 in Portland

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Dan

Well well well, do I have some exciting news to share with you today. You may or may not know that the Linux Foundation – employers of Linus Torvalds himself – are holding their first ever annual conference this …

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Weekly Rewind #24

Posted on July 26, 2009 by Dan

Greetings all and welcome to another Weekly Rewind, number 24. Half way to the meaning of life, which as everyone knows is 42. (EDIT: Thanks to Barry for pointing out in the comments that 24 is not half of …

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My Manchester Talk Slides

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Dan

On Tuesday night (July 21st) I gave a talk at a meeting of the Manchester Free Software group. It was about audio production with Linux and Free Software. Basically how I produce many podcasts and other things using only …

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One Dead Laptop

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Dan

I’ve mentioned in recent Weekly Rewinds about intermittent problems with my trusty (now not so trusty) Dell XPS m1330 laptop. It seems I’ve fallen foul of the known defect in some of the Nvidia cards shipped by Dell. I’ve …

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Weekly Rewind #23

Posted on July 19, 2009 by Dan

Sooooo, here we are at the 23rd Weekly Rewind. Doesn’t time fly? When you’re reading this waffle. Anyway, it’s been a reasonably quiet week by my standards but I have a feeling it’s only the lull before the storm. …

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