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 […]
June 1, 2021
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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 […]
September 20, 2020
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My webcam has broken, something that I have been using a lot during the last few months for some reason. A friend of mine suggested that I use the mic and camera on my mobile phone instead. There is a simple app ‘droidcam’ that makes the phone behave as a simple webcam, it also has […]
June 3, 2020
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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 […]
August 9, 2019
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[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 […]
August 3, 2019
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I write this on Monday whilst sat in the airport in São Paulo awaiting my onward flight back to the UK and the fun of the change of personnel in Downing street that has been something I have fortunately been able to ignore whilst at DebConf. [Edit: and finishing writing the Saturday after getting home […]
July 8, 2019
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With the release of Debian GNU/Linux 10.0.0 “Buster” completing in the small hours of yesterday morning (0200hrs UTC or thereabouts) most of the ‘release parties’ had already been and gone…. Not so for the Cambridge contingent who had scheduled a get together for the Sunday [0], knowing that various attendees would have been working on […]
July 7, 2019
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I spent all day smoke testing the install images for yesterday’s (this mornings – gee just after midnight local so we still had 11 hours to spare) Debian GNU/Linux 10.0.0 “Buster” release. This year we had our “Biglyest test matrix ever”[0], 111 tests were completed at the point the release images were signed and the […]
March 16, 2019
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This post may feel like an advert – to an extent it is. I won’t plug events very often; however as a charity event in aid of prostate cancer and I genuinely think it will be great fun for anybody able to take part, so hence the unashamed plug. The Race for Science will happen […]
March 10, 2019
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I am slowly making progress. I am quite pleased with myself for slowly moving beyond triage, test, verify to now beginning to understand what is going on with some bugs and being able to suggest fixes :-) That said my C++ foo is poor and add in QT as well and #917711 is beyond me. […]