Year: 2005
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Google Desktop Search
Google Desktop Search (or GDS as it’s becoming known) has just been fully released. I reviewed the beta a while ago. The new version is much the same to most people, with the most notable addition being the ability to search more kinds of files. However google have included APIs for developers to create plug-ins for different filetypes…
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Site update
I’ve upgraded wordpress the software that powers my website to the latest version – 1.5 (Strayhorn). The only differences that you should notice is that you will be required to wait till I validate your first post before it will display, once that’s validated any future posts will be instantly displayed. That and the pretty new theme you’re…
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Bill Bryson – A Short History of Nearly Everything
I’ve just completed A Short History of Nearly Everything, after having plenty of time stuck at Birmingham New Street to read it. Basically it is an ‘easy to understand’ explanation of many scientific discoveries and theories on a huge varying subject matter, from the big bang theory, to the discovery of atoms, to the birth of…
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Ubuntu
I’ve installed the Ubuntu “Warty” release and played around with it for a couple of days, configuring and exploring it. I quite like it, it has a nice, ungimmicky default theme, has firefox as the default browser and uses the very nice gnome 2.8. It seemed really easy to use, kind of ‘clean’ and well,…
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Google video
Google have just added video search to their lineup. It’s currently only a beta version and only indexes content from a handful of tv stations (including fox news :/). It works by searching the subtitles for your search term. Once you click on a result you can see screenshots of that program, and the subtitling…
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Ubuntu Linux
I’ve decided to give Ubuntu Linux a try, seeing as I’ve not ran a linux distro properly in a few months. The cd I downloaded was corrupted so I thought, that with the aid of Knoppix and chroot I’d do an install over the internet. I’ve got problems running depmod however and so my system…
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Cheap meat
I’ve just checked my mail after a couple of days away from the computer and was greeted by over one hundred new blog comments notifications and around four hundred ‘please check this comment’ messages. All of it spam. This resulted in something like 20 times my usual page hit count and a lot of time…
Dean Sas 