Year: 2007
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Configuring enigmail
Enigmail is an extension to Mozilla Thunderbird and Seamonkey to integrate the OpenPGP standard (specifically GPG) with the MUA. After enigmail has been configured for a while and you then wish to go back and change a setting it can be quite confusing as to where to do it. The most obvious place to start…
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Freelink
I spent Monday afternoon flashing my Linkstation twice. I flashed it with Freelink – a firmware containing a basic Debian installation. This means that instead of having a Buffalo custom variation of Linux, I have Debian and all of the packages that that includes. I promptly managed to mess up the network configuration file and so once I rebooted the Linkstation,…
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My recent free software involvement
I should really write in this thing more, spending time on my final year project, and free software things takes up most of my time though. Recently I’ve been toying with a Gnome applet for the Twitter API – that notifies you when your friends twitter. I’m struggling to get it to work with the gnome-panel, it…
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Ubuntu membership
Last Tuesday I was present at the Ubuntu Community Council meeting where my application for Ubuntu membership was under consideration. Thankfully I was near the front of a rather large queue of applicants, so I did not have to wait too long to be considered. I nominated myself for membership on the basis of my contributions with the bugsquad and my…
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2006 reviewed
Here’s a quick summary of what has happened to me during 2006. It seems as time passes I blog less and less, the adage of ‘the more interesting your life gets, the less time you have to blog about it’ probably proving true. It means it’s hard to remember things you’ve done too. January Started…
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