Ubuntu 8.04 x 2
Ok, I’ve finally managed to get my old laptop up and running with a fresh install of Hardy Heron and upgraded my new laptop from Gutsy Gibbon. Of course, it wasn’t absolutely without problems. 😉 Firefox 3 beta 5 cannot…
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Monthly Archive: April 2008
Ubuntu 8.04
Since Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) is finally available, I’ve performed the first upgrade. My work laptop was running 7.10 (Feisty Fawn) previously and I just performed successfully (!) an upgrade. I’m really impressed, not even a single glitch! 🙂 Why…
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Finally V0
Finally, finally, the f…ing V8s are over and won’t come back before next year! Apparently 172,000 people watched the races from Friday to Sunday. Surprisingly, there were only a limited number of arrests, e.g., only 21 on Friday night. Some…
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The Butterfly Effect
Nope, I’m not talking about the movie (not that I’ve seen it!), but about Edward Lorenz, who died on Wednesday, aged 90. This is the man who came across the sensitive dependence on initial conditions while running some computer simulations…
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Virtualized
Has been a rather uneventful week so far… Bachelor for a week again, getting used to my new desk (I love it!!), lots of work and adding the finishing touch to my laptop’s setup. I’ve spent quite a lot of…
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The German link
Just received an internal “media advisories” email, and the following was among the content: “Bremen University in Germany and the University of Waikato have signed an official agreement over a jointly taught Master of Science programme. Professor Terry Healy, from…
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First milestone!
Man, what a mission… Getting Vista up and running as a guest OS in my VirtualBox wasn’t easy. Whereas XP works basically out of the box and can also access shared paths from the host via UNC paths without any…
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New desk ordered
Yay, finally! After prodding my line-manager for getting a new desk for ages – a colleague of mine referred to the old one as a teenage girl desk – I finally ordered a new one. A nice corner one, with…
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Migration started…
I started migrating the documents and files from my old laptop running dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. Since I’m installing a 64-bit version of Ubuntu for the first time, there are bound to be a few quirks on the…
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