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Top 5 Annoying Songs

July 30, 2005

5. White Stripes – Doorbell
Starting off with a quite flat drum intro that continues throughout the whole song, this songs 3 lines of lyrics grow tiresome. The song does however have some groovy chords dispite the overall annoyingness of the song. This is a song that you definately love to hate.
4. Speaker [...]

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It was called…Fedora

July 28, 2005

I have been totally blown away, who would have thought that so much would be available out of the box? Last night I downloaded the DVD iso of Fedora Linux (you can see the confused firefox download manager the bottom of my last post). An easy 2 gig which at the time I thought was [...]

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Open Source Challenge

July 27, 2005

Ok, I have upgraded my challenge from linux only week to a…
OPEN SOURCE EXTRAVAGANZA!
Next week, sunday to sunday I will only be allowed to use open source or free programs on my home pc.
I have made my selection of flavours- I will be using Fedora Linux which is pretty much a whole distro made by [...]

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The great Linux challenge…

July 26, 2005

The challenge is on people…
Next week, I will endure exactly 1 week of using a reincarnation of Linux on my primary home machine.
Im not sure exactly what flavour yet but im thinking probably knoppix or a new mandrake or mabee even a 64 bit version….. hrmmm
Why?
1 – to give me greater knowledge in linux and [...]

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Warhooning



It was only the other day that I actually got my CF network card for my PDA working. I always just had it stuck in the slot running on some outdated archaicly old drivers which were as ineffectual as sticking the card in the toaster. After doing the standard pre uni reinstall I found some [...]

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Ebolahelpline

July 18, 2005

I have begun work on a doomsday device, its looking good so far. I have always liked the idea of a doomsday device planted in something cute or innocent looking. I always thought kirby would make a great doomsday device. At the moment mine is in a cardboard box but im making everything small enough [...]

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Landrover Love

July 16, 2005

I had almost had it with my car today. I could have driven it off a cliff then and there.
My parents have been away for a few days and hence I have been driving their cars around in favour of heating and comfort. Unfortunately this leaves my landy in the shed which through the wonders [...]

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Navibloging

July 13, 2005

I like to maximise efficiency. Mabee its my engineer chemicals or perhaps just my laziness but today I have a few little tips for firefox to help people be all they can be.
The first is to make the most of tabbed browsing- assign one of those stupid mouse buttons (defaultly middle click but I find [...]

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Oneirophobia

July 12, 2005

I have just finished a 6 hour binge of the UK TV car show top gear. Sooooo good, I hadnt realised that the next seasin had started until i checked last night and found 6 episodes that I had not seen. Putting them on download and going to bed, trying to sleep was like the [...]

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