23 Jan 2012
Posted by Quantum at 9:10 pm
The past few weeks have been troublesome. A constant scratching on my thigh as my keys pushed though the pocket wall of my work trousers. The temporary fix of micro-pore tape had worked for the last time as the fibres parted ways never to join again. Today however things were different, a new pair of [...]
29 Nov 2011
Posted by Quantum at 8:22 pm
Over the past few weeks I have found myself using Google+ more and more. I’ve never been a fan of Facebook and the idea of using a social network built around avoiding some of the Facebook missteps was more appealing. Certainly alot of my friends are not on Google+ but most of the people on [...]
23 Oct 2011
Posted by Quantum at 11:09 pm
The food pictures are evidence from almost 2 months ago. Since that time there has been no more evidence of rodent food consumption. This week there was a smell in the kitchen that I assumed was the bin. Emptying the bin didn’t shift the smell but I was preoccupied by an plague of flies that [...]
03 Aug 2011
Posted by Quantum at 10:10 pm
In my previous post I outlined in a somewhat comic fashion the note I had found in my bin with regards to its placement on a pavement. The note had been placed there for good reason as a number of bins mine included had been strewn about. Now that was some weeks back and ever [...]
31 May 2011
Posted by Quantum at 11:28 pm
I took the plunge a few days ago and updated my machines to Fedora 15. The results have been mixed. My netbook and laptop were the first to be upgrades with Intel and Nvidia graphics respectively. Both upgraded fine and the Gnome 3 experience was ok, if a little strange. The problems started with my [...]
25 Feb 2011
Posted by Quantum at 7:46 pm
I have been using email for many years now. Over that time I have changed between mail clients, addresses, operating systems and spam filters. Whilst I have been able to keep on top of filtering mail into folders it finally reached the point today where the the mess of filtering and folders needed a clean [...]
06 Jan 2011
Posted by Quantum at 7:21 pm
Until very recently I had never used any sort of version control system. I was aware of the existence of Git, SVN, CVS, Darcs, Mercurial etc. but never needed to use any. A version control system is a setup where by the changes to a set of files are tracked over time. This enables a [...]
06 Jan 2011
Posted by Quantum at 5:03 pm
It has been just over a month since I switched my Linux computers from Gentoo to Fedora. I am happy to report that all is going well. There have been a few issues but these are minor annoyances rather than major problems. The first problem was with my laptop. Having started using it with Fedora [...]
29 Nov 2010
Posted by Quantum at 8:53 pm
Over the past month I have been getting to grips with using Fedora 14 on my Laptop, Netbook and Desktop. The install replaces the previous Gentoo installs. My primary reason for switching distribution has been updates and time. To keep machines upto date with security patches Gentoo needed to recompile alot of packages in some [...]
28 Jul 2010
Posted by Quantum at 5:42 pm
Over the past month I was having a little trouble with Gentoo being difficult to maintain (too many things broke at the same time). I decided to try another distro and after some initial reading decided to try Fedora 13 (64bit). The install on my server went smoothly and I had a working machine in [...]
