Monthly Archives: November 2008

Sun – Week Twentyone

Posted on November 28, 2008 by Ben Lavery

Monday morning started with us meeting several of our oversea’s friends. Anthony from Singapore, Micheal from Germany and Tim from America. And we had a TOI about SCSI given by James MacFarlane.

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An Englishman’s forecast of applications on the cloud:

Posted on November 23, 2008 by Ben Lavery

Dull and drizzly. There have been lots of talk over the past couple of years, and now more than any time in that gap of applications on cloud. Netbooks have been talked of: Wikipedia: “A netbook is a small to … Continue reading →

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Sun – Week Twenty

Posted on November 21, 2008 by Ben Lavery

Monday starts off quietly, with fewer tickets than I expected…I progressed a little with some gDoc code, you can now call up the GUI form the command line with some arguments and the app with automagically search for those words. … Continue reading →

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Nifty keyboard shortcuts on SunRay’s

Posted on November 20, 2008 by Ben Lavery

At work, our department has it’s own SunRay servers. I am currently running on a V890 server running build 101a of Nevada and running the SRSS 4.1 (SunRay Server Software (I think)). I was trying to switch tabs in Firefox, … Continue reading →

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How to save the British economy

Posted on November 20, 2008 by Ben Lavery

How do we save our falling economy? Well, it would appear the answer has arisen in the popular BBC quiz show QI. On Friday 14th November 2008, QI did a Children in Need special. The topic was on the Eaurovision … Continue reading →

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Sun – Week Nineteen

Posted on November 14, 2008 by Ben Lavery

After spending most of Sunday cooking meals for the following two weeks, I came in to find that it was fairly quiet. I spent Monday looking at some disk drives, in meetings and looking at gDoc. I also looked at … Continue reading →

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Quidco

Posted on November 9, 2008 by Ben Lavery

Aled popped online the other day and told me about Quidco.  It’s a system that somehow give you money back on purchases made online.  It will pay you back over a period of months, taking £5 every year as a … Continue reading →

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Sun – Week Eighteen

Posted on November 7, 2008 by Ben Lavery

Monday was spent traveling back from Aber, I arrived back in Camberley at just past midnight Tuesday was spent getting some storage trays set up for an engineer. It just comprised of setting up two trays really, there was thought … Continue reading →

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One year on…

Posted on November 1, 2008 by Ben Lavery

Well, it’s my second ‘one year’ celebration in a matter of days! Today, I have been blogging for a year!  I first posted with: Leopard Of course, this was back on blogger, I moved to WordPress shortly after. My second … Continue reading →

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