Monthly Archives: January 2008

Coding week – Day 3

Posted on January 30, 2008 by Ben Lavery

The day started by running around the Old College looking for the workstation room, after finally finding it, I settled down to work on looking around for Java with Postgres, as this was the database we are working with…Looking around … Continue reading →

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Coding week – Day 2

Posted on January 29, 2008 by Ben Lavery

Ugh, off to another late start, rolled out of bed at 8:10am again…Just about to have some breakfast…Today’s blog may be more of a continually updated commentary of what’s going on…But who knows, eh?

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Coding week – Day 1

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Ben Lavery

Today started off with rolling out of bed at 8:10am, out the house for 8:50, I had left it a tad late to make it up the hill in time, though my phone helped, playing a crap, compressed version of … Continue reading →

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Incremental volume

Posted on January 27, 2008 by Ben Lavery

A good friend of mine, Aled Hughes, spoke to me today on msn and was talking to me about a feature he found on Leopard. If you press shift+option+volume (option being ‘alt’), then you can increment/decrement the volume by a … Continue reading →

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OS Woes

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Ben Lavery

Since my last post I eventually got around to trying to install Debian and Fedora onto my spare box…But it would appear that neither would run on it…I spent today jiggling my main box around to fit not only Windows … Continue reading →

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I need a floppy disk!?

Posted on January 19, 2008 by Ben Lavery

OK, exams finished on Thursday…I let myself recoup on Friday and today I decided have a play with my spare tower…Up until recently I have had OpenSuse 10.2 on there running GNOME (the CPU is an old AMD Athlon and … Continue reading →

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MacWorld Expo

Posted on January 15, 2008 by Ben Lavery

Held between the 14th and the 18th of January, Apple today released two new exciting products and two enhancements to two of their already awesome product range.

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That January feeling

Posted on January 15, 2008 by Ben Lavery

It’s a new year and time to get up and go after the Christmas break, however, for us students at Aber uni (as well as other students I’m sure), we look forward to a bunch of exams in stuff we … Continue reading →

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