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I’ve completed two games to 100% this weekend, Lego Star Wars II and Lego Indiana Jones.
For Lego Star Wars II all I had to do was to complete the Super Story modes on each film which basically means playing through the entire of the story mode again except you get timed. I was under the [...]

Here is a quick script I wrote for my dad so that when he logs in it will tell him if he’s got any new messages.
If it was anything other than a basic yahoo account (webmail only, no POP or IMAP) I could have used the mail-notification package
#!/bin/bash

#requires packages libnotify-bin, fetchyahoo

# include settings from $HOME/.yahoomail, [...]

Last weekend I went to the Devon and Cornwall Linux User Group meeting in a Computer shop in Penzance (which is why I skipped the Termisoc LOTR marathon) and thanks to Viv I got to see Virtualbox in use. Virtualbox is virtualisation software that lets you run several operating systems on the same computer at [...]

Decided to update my Wordpress install, something which I’ve been meaning to do for a while.
This time though I’ll be upgrading wordpress using Subversion version control which should make things quicker next time.
Previously I downloaded the tar file and then extracted it to a separate folder then tried to figure out which bits I [...]

I finally got around to getting myself a better display for my desktop, a 22″ widescreen monitor. It is great, I have loads more usable space on my desk now, mostly due to not having a CRT but also because I moved some of my junk onto my bed so I could take a nice [...]

Before I went on holiday (I will be writing about this sometime, honest) the hard drives in (Sephiroth) my desktop machine decided to die on me, possibly because they were not getting enough power due to be installing a big-ass graphics card (I wanted dual monitor).
So now I am back it is time to take [...]

Yesterday my / partition was 93% full, today it is only a modest 49%.
The space was mostly taken up by uncompressed video files from my tuner card (>1GB each) and my cached apt packages.
I really should keep an eye on that.

After finding many (+1000) comment spams in my wordpress blog I took a look at my database tables. After marking something as spam it still lurks around in the wordpress database (table wp_comments)
SELECT COUNT(*), comment_approved FROM wp_comments GROUP BY comment_approved;
+———-+——————+
| COUNT(*) | comment_approved |
+———-+——————+
| 68 | 1 [...]

For the past few days I’ve been doing temp work as a customer relations assistant dealing with letters from annoyed train company customers (Some of them are whiny but others I can well understand why they are pissed off).
The software I used is a CRM system (Remedy Action Request System 4.0) and basically my [...]

These aren’t the traditional type of backup problems where you have trouble either making or restoring a backup. This backup problem is a whole lot bigger, this backup problem is to do with having way too many backups. You see my hard drive has been dodgy and also I have a bad habit of wiping [...]