Category Archives: Geekery

IT stuff.

Mac Mini

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Glenn

On Saturday we came home from a shopping trip with a Mac Mini, to go with several Linux machines, a few Windows boxes, and a Macbook Pro. I almost immediately shut the lid on my old Dell notebook and went … Continue reading →

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Mac convert

Posted on April 24, 2010 by Sarah

Okay. I confess. I have seen the light… well… mainly. There are roles for all OSs in our house! Linux in various flavours lives on our servers… Windows XP Home on our son’s computer (games support for his purposes)… Windows … Continue reading →

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Androids and iPhones

Posted on November 2, 2009 by Sarah

Which does what best and why… solutions (or not) for all tasks we can think of. Does a hero trump i? For blogging on my iPhone I use WordPress… and it’s super. It lets me do everything I need to … Continue reading →

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iPhone blogging

Posted on November 1, 2009 by Sarah

Golly gosh, I can blog from my iPhone . On the way to see Ladysmith Black Mambazo in the Millennium Centre… hoping the rain slows down before I have to get out of the car! It’s good to be out … Continue reading →

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Draft blogging on laptop

Posted on November 1, 2009 by Sarah

Excellent.  Not only on Windows 7… also on slightly less modern OS on work laptop.  Hmm… if VNA co-authors can blog from bed… I wonder…

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Windows Live Writer

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Sarah

I think the other Verba Non Acta contributors will come out in a horrid bout of hives… it’s almost a heinous crime to enjoy free offerings from Microsoft… and, as you can tell, I’m enjoying Windows Live Writer!  It is … Continue reading →

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I finally got the PC I want!

Posted on February 3, 2009 by Glenn

I’ve been playing with PCs since the 286-12 was a boy, and it’s taken until 2009 for me to get a PC configured as I want it. The box in question is in the shed, and I usually administer it … Continue reading →

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Trials with a new PC

Posted on July 4, 2008 by Glenn

Over the years, since 386 cpus were trendy, I’ve built loads of PCs. I mean loads – probably in the hundreds somewhere. As a result, I usually don’t get too surprised by them. ok, so form factors change, RAM modules … Continue reading →

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The RIAA

Posted on May 28, 2008 by admin

So the RIAA has (finally) dropped its legal case against the Russian music download site, allofmp3.com (latterly reborn in the guise of mp3sparks.com). I can’t quite believe that G. Dubbya threatened to exclude Russia from the WTO over this, but … Continue reading →

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Spam, and why the Internet has turned to shit.

Posted on April 5, 2008 by admin

I just read on the BBC news website that over 90% of the e-mail being sent today is spam. That’s not really a surprise, but it still pisses me off. The problem started when somebody decided to make it easy … Continue reading →

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