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Partition Magic!

Jun 17th, 2010No Comments

Once upon a time the recommended method for installing Linux onto a machine that already had Windows on it was to purchase a commercial product called Partition Magic which would allow you to safely resize your Windows partition to make space for a new / additional Linux partition. These days there are things ‘built into’ the likes of Ubuntu to assist with this, but there are still times when you want to take a closer look at your disk, not least when your disk fails and you need to see what’s still there.

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Support from M$

Jun 17th, 2010No Comments

It looks like Microsoft is trying to help Linux for a change! From Tuesday it will no longer be possible to upgrade from older versions of Microsoft Office to Office 2010, which means some pretty hefty bills for people who want to keep up-to-date. Indeed you can end up paying more for your Microsoft Office than you paid for your PC in the first place (!)

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Dell re-invents Ubuntu!

Jun 14th, 20102 Comments

I’ve just spotted something rather unusual on Dell’s website, apparently it’s called an Ubuntu Website. Interestingly it looks like it says that Ubuntu is just like Microsoft Windows or Apple MacOS and lists 10 things you should know about Ubuntu. (or, reading between the lines, 10 reasons why you should use Ubuntu rather than Windows)

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Incremental Backups

Jun 12th, 2010No Comments

Keeping copies of one’s system just in case something breaks has been a long-time bane of sysadmin’s lives, albeit as hardware has moved on things have become easier. The days of tape backups are gone for most of us and the problem is reduced to one of keeping mirrored disk images of our systems.

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Short Codes

Jun 12th, 2010No Comments

We have a number of short codes that can be used on the site, some of which are built into the theme and some of which have been added as custom extras.

So who wants to do a nice example page for all these short codes?

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Syntax highlighting

Jun 10th, 2010No Comments

As we will (hopefully) over time be posting many code snippets, I’ve been looking at some syntax highlighting plugins to make any such code more readable. This is a brief demo of what I’ve come up with so far, first using a bash script I use to update backup routines on remote hosts and kickoff incremental backups;

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