Monthly Archives: April 2009

Are blogs a fad?

Posted on April 27, 2009 by Ben Lavery

Why does one start to write a blog? I know why I started mine, I wanted some representation on the web which was a bit more organised than the sites I tend to cobble together…Did I share much with you … Continue reading →

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Sun – Week Fortytwo

Posted on April 24, 2009 by Ben Lavery

Monday morning starts with us meeting a newtern for next year. Alex is down for a weeks experience to get used to working at sun. As a result, I’ve not actually done that much this week.

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Opensolaris Live USB Creator

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Ben Lavery

Just been alerted to this: clicky Though if you don’t have access to a Windows box, but do already have access (or know someone with access) to an OpenSolaris box, then this method works too.

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Oracle buys Sun Microsystems

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Ben Lavery

Well, the news hit the two company sites at around 12:30 BST by my reckoning.  Sun.com and Oracle.com both reveled the news at around the same time (sun clicky and oracle clicky <- pics of the sites on the day).

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Sun Week Fortyone

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Ben Lavery

This week starts on Tuesday, Monday being Easter Monday and a day dedicated to getting over a “chocolate hangover”, whatever one of those is…

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Sun – Week Forty

Posted on April 9, 2009 by Ben Lavery

This week I’m going to try and finish that email script…A while ago I was assigned the task of writing a module for our booking system.

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Sun – Week Thirtynine

Posted on April 3, 2009 by Ben Lavery

Monday morning is here, we are an hour ahead of last week with the clocks going forward. It seems really sunny today, shame that my day starts off with unblocking the toilet, yuch. Anyhoo, I get into the office as … Continue reading →

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