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How to Submit a Conference Talk
23 October 2008
Read moreSpeaking at conferences is a great way to share ideas and meet people - but actually getting the opportunity to do is a little more tricky and usually involves proposing a talk. In the last year I've attended IPC in Germany and PHP London, spoken at DPC in Amsterdam, submitted talks …
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rsnapshot flag for usb drive
12 October 2008
Read morersnapshot is a great tool that I use for all my backup stuff, its really easy and seems pretty robust (or rather, I haven't broken it yet!). When I set it up most recently, I discovered that it has a very useful flag, no_create_root. The problem I often have is …
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Mounting the VMWare Tools Installation CD
02 October 2008
Read moreI was recently installing the VMWare tools onto a debian etch virtual machine which I downloaded from the thoughtpolice.co.uk site, and I ran into problems. When the installation instructions from thoughtpolice say to type
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/
This gives me an error about "You must specify the …
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Tinyurl Shortcut in Opera
29 September 2008
Read moreI am an irssi user - I have issues with mice (I don't use one) and so the text-based IRC client works wonderfully well for me. It also looks less like a chat client and more like I might be working on a terminal screen, which was more useful before I …
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Acer Aspire One and an XD Card
09 September 2008
Read moreI may have mentioned my new acer aspire one already, and I probably also mentioned the problems I had with it not reading my camera card. The camera is a Fuji Finepix, and the card is a 2GB XD card - XD is the format used by Fuji and by Olympus …
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Getting Started with irssi
23 August 2008
Read moreIrssi is a fabulous IRC client, which runs on the command line. I'm sure I don't use half the features it offers but its very stable, unintrusive ( you can run it in a background terminal, or even leave it running in a detached screen process ), and frankly excellent. Because I …
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Curl Cheat Sheet
19 August 2008
Read moreI have a scribbled sheet on my desk, which is my "cheat sheet" for curl, its really short and I thought I'd put my notes here for safe-keeping. If you're visiting, then I hope they help you too.
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Professional Development for Girl Geeks
14 August 2008
Read moreLast night I gave a talk at the Leeds Girl Geek Dinners entitled "Professional Development for Girl Geeks" - and you can find the slides on slideshare if you're interested.
Most of what I said wasn't on the slides, but the gist of it was along the lines of:
- Use the …
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Surfing Without a Mouse
12 August 2008
Read moreI don't use a mouse most of the time, because I have tendonitis in my forearms and find that I can use a keyboard for a whole working week without too much pain, whereas any mouse usage starts hurting badly in a day and half. As a web developer, I …
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Flickr Plugin Weirdness
29 July 2008
Read moreI am an increasingly avid flickr user and have a growing collection of photos on my flickr account. It seems daft to upload photos twice all the time so I tried the flickr plugin for serendipity (my bloggling platform) but I couldn't get my account to connect correctly. In the …
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Announcing the Leeds Girl Geek Dinner
22 July 2008
Read moreOnce upon a time there was a girl geek called Sarah Blow, and she wanted to hang out with her girl friends and geek out at the same time (and who wouldn't?). So she founded the phenomenon of the Girl Geek Dinner in London. Well this great idea has spread …
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LugRadioLive Wolverhampton 2008
20 July 2008
Read moreYesterday I had an outing to the LUGRadio Live event in Wolverhampton. To be honest this isn't my usual kind of crowd but it was local, the talks looked interesting and so off I went.
Well it was a very interesting day - the highlight was of course meeting Emma from …