As anyone who's been within hearing range can tell you, I've acquired a new laptop recently that I've grown quite fond of. Here's my experience getting various Linux distributions working on it, your mileage may vary (e.g. my experience with Debian was widely different from others'). I ordered the …

If your hard drives are currently doing fine and you're ready to skip this article, please just do this for me: run *fdisk -l* as root, maybe *fdisk -u -l* as well and store the output in a file on a usb stick or another machine. Thanks. That's the kind …

Since attending GUADEC I've been meaning to build Gnome-Shell from source and give it a serious try. Unfortunately, the few times I had the time to work on it my trusty laptop couldn't handle it, in that even left alone for 3 or 4 hours it couldn't manage to finish …

I'm back from a short holiday (therefore of course sick, but it was relaxing up to that point!). I found out last week-end that the paper I wrote with my FYP supervisor, based on my final year project and dissertation in UL, has been published! The article abstract is available …

Last Monday was the last session of my short "Introduction to programming, with Python" class. Eight adults signed up, the course lasted for 5 weeks on Monday evenings and overall the impressions are positive. I made progress in places, and learnt how to improve in others.