Simon » Computer http://owls-count.net I am me Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:34:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Samsung N210 http://owls-count.net/blog/computer/samsung-n210 http://owls-count.net/blog/computer/samsung-n210#comments Sun, 28 Mar 2010 08:49:07 +0000 Simon http://owls-count.net/?p=524 The laptop I have been using as my main machine for a few years now has been struggling – it is four and a half years old – and I decided that it would be best to replace it before it failed. I have been looking at options for a while and I decided that I would go with one of the new Intel Atom N450 series laptops.

I settled on the Samsung N210, with a memory upgrade to 2GB. I have set it up to dual boot Windows 7 and Kubuntu. I’ve not really used Windows yet and intend to change to the specific netbook version of Kubuntu when the new version comes out.

My initial impressions are good. The battery lifetime is impressive and the machine is near silent. The smaller screen takes some getting used to, but with some suitable change of settings there is still plenty of screen space.

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Then, a couple of weeks ago, I saw a link to Migrating 21k Pictures and Videos from Flickr to Picasa and realised that it provided a good method. Using two different providers means that I do not have to worry about local backup media dying and it also gives me the choice to move from one provider to the other as my main host in the future.

As I do not have a Mac, I used FlickrEdit for the download and that took about a day. The upload took a couple of days. At some point I will need to sort out the photo tags and geotagging, which did not move over using this method, but overall it was a fairly painless way of making the backup.

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Also, about a month ago I changed theme on this site. This was mainly to change the prominence of the elements displaying integration with other websites.

If you spot any problems then let me know!

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I got back from nine days in Chicago on Wednesday. While there there was an impressive thunderstorm. I’ll post more about my Chicago trip at some stage.

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Also, I have moved server recently. Hopefully everything is up and working correctly. If not let me know. The move was fairly painless – just a little while spent working out where all the setting were kept.

]]> http://owls-count.net/blog/computer/new-server-and-wordpress-26/feed 0 Keeping Hands Out of the Cookie Jar http://owls-count.net/blog/computer/keeping-hands-out-of-the-cookie-jar http://owls-count.net/blog/computer/keeping-hands-out-of-the-cookie-jar#comments Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:17:27 +0000 Simon http://owls-count.net/?p=140 The new version of WordPress adds additional protection for cookies. It is very much worth adding the config option mentioned, since it helps protect against problems where a database have already been compromised.

Hot on the heels of WordPress 2.5.0 is the security update – WP 2.5.1.

Rumours that I have as many draft posts as SKG are false – though more than ten will exist soon if I keep leaving them unpublished!

]]> http://owls-count.net/blog/computer/keeping-hands-out-of-the-cookie-jar/feed 0 shell commands http://owls-count.net/blog/computer/shell-commands http://owls-count.net/blog/computer/shell-commands#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:31:46 +0000 Simon http://owls-count.net/?p=138 I saw this meme going around the blog world and decided to join in.

history | awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head

Work

73 ls
63 svn
62 cd
56 make
48 vi
24 sudo
24 grep
17 acroread
15 ispell
9 ./repos-update.sh

Home

57 vi
54 cd
52 rm
50 ls
25 svn
25 sudo
23 make
23 git
15 mv
14 irb

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At this point I feel rather smug. I keep a repository of my own files on one of my machines. When I set up this repository, several years ago, I picked Subversion. However, recently the repository server has been offline and, so, I needed easy offline access to the repository. Fairly much randomly I decided to use Git, through the git-svn tool.

]]> http://owls-count.net/blog/computer/git-and-github/feed 0 WordPress 2.5 http://owls-count.net/blog/computer/wordpress-25 http://owls-count.net/blog/computer/wordpress-25#comments Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:11:27 +0000 Simon http://owls-count.net/?p=134 The new version (2.5) of WordPress came out recently. Upgrading this blog went smoothly.

The most noticeable change is the redesign to the admin section. It is certainly a big improvement on the old.

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