Michael A Heap

Month | January, 2009

Our Compiler, Who Art In Memory

This is taken directly from Caius’ blog, but it made me laugh so I had to repost it here. I’d advise checking out the original post, as it also has a reworked version of the Marine’s Creed for geeks
The (Geek) Lord’s Prayer
Our Compiler, who art in memory. GNU be thy name.
Thy source code come, [...]

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Lesser Known Keyboard Shortcuts On Ubuntu

While flicking through the Ubuntu Pocket Guide, I spotted a section on keyboard shortcuts that listed a lot that I didn’t know already. I don’t use the mouse much at all, and know all the basic keyboard shortcuts such as Alt+F to open the file menu, or shift + direction to highlight text.
I’ll be referring [...]

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eeebuntu Ibex on an EEE901

When I first got my EEE901, the first thing I did was to get rid of Xandros, the Toys-R-Us like OS and install a proper distro. After a bit of googling, I came across eeebuntu. At that point, it was a working distro, but there was still a lot of work to be done to [...]

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Leeds Twestival

A Twestival? Never heard of one!
Well, it’s kind of a combination of a festival and twitter for a good cause. It’s an evening of fun intended to raise money for, and awareness of, charity:water.
I couldn’t help but express disappointment at finding out that Leeds didn’t have it’s own twestival, and it’d merged with Manctwester. Caius [...]

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