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Windows 7 Starter Edition

Mark Tuesday, 2nd June, 2009Tuesday, 2nd June, 2009

A while ago Microsoft announced the various different versions of Windows 7 that would be available, including the Starter Edition which would impose a limit of three concurrent applications. At the time I wrote a few words about the number …

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Ubuntu 9.04: restoring the Shut Down entry to the System menu

Mark Friday, 8th May, 2009Wednesday, 20th May, 2009 3 Comments

Yesterday I wrote about my initial impressions of Ubuntu 9.04, “Jaunty Jackalope” – but the bulk of the post ended up being about the decision to remove the “Log Out” and “Shut Down” options from the System menu. In the …

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Thoughts on Ubuntu 9.04, Jaunty Jackalope

Mark Thursday, 7th May, 2009Friday, 8th May, 2009 8 Comments

Having upgraded a few machines to Ubuntu 9.04 a few days ago, here are my thoughts on this latest version: Things I Love The speed of the system – both in booting and in general use – seems to be …

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Still the madness continues

Mark Wednesday, 4th February, 2009 2 Comments

One of my earliest posts was a jibe at the crazy notion of selling numerous different versions of Vista. It seems that the madness is set to continue with Windows 7, as Microsoft have confirmed that there will be six …

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Why is there no AND for regular expressions?

Mark Thursday, 31st July, 2008Thursday, 31st July, 2008

Here’s a Javascript regular expression which will match a string which contains at least one lower case letter: /[a-z]/ And another which will match a string with at least one upper case character: /[A-Z]/ I can even stick these together …

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Transparently stupid

Mark Friday, 25th July, 2008

For a long time now it’s been possible to specify CSS colours as RGB triplets, using hexadecimal, decimal, or percentage notation. These all represent the colour white: #ffffff #fff rgb(255, 255, 255) rgb(100%, 100%, 100%) Lots of flexibility – perhaps …

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Hmm… that backup seems to be running slowly

Mark Thursday, 13th September, 2007Wednesday, 12th December, 2007

Many years ago one of my colleagues purchased a Dell server complete with an expensive SCSI-based tape backup system. About a year ago we began to have recurring problems with the tapes, and the drive itself started to get very …

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DS NON-Download Locations

Mark Sunday, 30th July, 2006Monday, 31st July, 2006

After much searching I finally found a DS Download Station that works.

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Games Tech Things I Just Don't Understand

Safety in Numbers?

Mark Thursday, 29th June, 2006Friday, 30th June, 2006

When I first heard about the move to “Chip and Pin” debit and credit cards I was dubious about the benefits it would bring to the consumer. Gervase Markham has an interesting article in The Times Online as well as …

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It’s the biggest key on my keyboard, so let me use it

Mark Tuesday, 7th March, 2006Tuesday, 7th March, 2006

Why won’t more websites let me enter my credit card number with spaces in? You know, like the way it’s printed on the card itself.

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