April 21, 2022

There has been a flurry of activity on the Debian mailing lists ever since Steve McIntyre raised the issue of including non-free firmware as part of official Debian installation images. Firstly I should point out that I am in complete agreement with Steve’s proposal to include non-free firmware as part of an installation image. Likewise […]

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September 20, 2021

Nearly 4 weeks after contracting COVID-19 I am finally able to return to work… Yes I have had both Jabs (my 2nd dose was back in June), and this knocked me for six. I spent most of the time in bed, and only started to get up and about 10 days ago. I passed this […]

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August 14, 2021

And so it begins…Release of Debian 11 Bullseye is in progress. Building install media is underway, and we’ll be downloading and smoke testing these images just as soon as they become available. Want to help test some images?  see https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianCD/ReleaseTesting/Bullseye_r0   We expect to be at this until the small hours of Sunday morning…

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July 17, 2021

Installing a new laptop ‘New’ is a 2nd hand Thinkpad T470p laptop that I intend to duel boot with windows.I have been a Debian user for over 20 years, I use windows at work for the proprietary EDA ‘Altium’, but I have never had a windows installation on my laptop. This machine will to be […]

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June 1, 2021

I came across What three words a wile back, and being a quite news period there was another article on the BBC website about it over the weekend.  What Three Words is a proprietary ‘location’ system using three unique words as an identifier to a 3m x 3m square anywhere on the planet.  This apparently […]

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June 3, 2020

At work we have a wonderful pyhon tool that we are able to send CoAP messages to and from our products. Perfect for development work. However recently I needed to install a copy of the tools onto my personal laptop because the only work laptops I have access to have completely dead batteries and so […]

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August 9, 2019

[Edit: Removed accusation of non UK hosting – thank you to Richard Mortimer & Philipp Edelmann for pointing out I had incorrectly looked up the domain “householdresponce.com” in place of  “householdresponse.com”.  Learn to spell…] I live in England, the government keeps an Electoral Roll, a list of people registered to vote.  This list needs to […]

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