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Ubuntu UK Podcast

I recommend that if you’re a little bit interested in Linux you have a listen to the Ubuntu UK Podcast. Recently I joined the transcribers’ team. The aim of the team is to transcribe each of the...

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What I learned today

I found out two things today. The XSD for this XML: <someElement anAttribute="aValue">someValue</someElement> goes a little something like this: <xs:element name="someElement"...

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gnome-terminal locale encoding

Had a problem last week where my editor was defaulting to using UTF-8 whereas the files i was editing were ISO-8859-1. This ISO character set allows for extra single-byte characters beyond those in...

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Easy printing in Ubuntu from Windows

I need to do a bit more flag waving for Ubuntu Linux. I have said it before, and I will say it again: Ditch Microsoft Windows. Download Ubuntu for free, don’t pay the Microsoft tax. Anyway, my most...

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Cupsd Authentication in Ubuntu

Typical, after my last post extolling the virtues of how easy it was to install a printer in Ubuntu I hit a problem today. The symptoms are that you go to do a printer administration task, like add a...

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Partion Windows and Linux with GParted

I run Windows Vista on dual boot. My inclination is to get rid of it altogether, but I paid for a license thanks to the Microsoft Tax when I bought the machine and sometimes vendors (Garmin for...

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How to downgrade packages in Ubuntu

I had an issue today when installing pytrainer. It wanted to install some extra python packages but it couldn’t. The reason was that I had python2.5 v2.5.2-2ubuntu5 installed but the extra packages...

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A brief hello…

Hi faithful blog fans. Nothing much to report – busy with the kitchen, have replaced the rotten joists (read: door frames, grrr!) and laid new laminate. On with the new units now Oh, and upgraded to...

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Shopping delivered to Great Grandma, by Ubuntu Linux

This article serves as a reminder that as professional web developers we should never assume a certain level of prior knowledge from our users; it also demonstrates how Windows needn’t be the first...

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Garmin Forerunner 305/405 musings

Updated from previous posting! Garmin Forerunner 405 UPDATE: thanks to the efforts of lots of people in the community we are now able to download tracks from the Garmin Forerunner 405 Linux. See...

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