Category Archives: Uni

The End of an Era…

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Ben Lavery

Graduating on the 15th of July means that I am no longer tied to the Aberystwyth University, legally no longer a student, and at the end of my 18 year ‘career’ in education…

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Dissertation is over…

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Ben Lavery

I meant to blog about this ages ago!  Better late than never I suppose… Back in April (April 22nd to be precise) I handed in two copies of my 72 page document which outlines everything about my project.  I wanted … Continue reading →

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OpenSolaris & CS101

Posted on October 31, 2008 by Ben Lavery

On Thursday 30th October, I attended the CS101 lecture in Aber uni.  I was there to give a brief talk about OpenSolaris, focusing on aspects like Zones, DTrace and ZFS.  I think it went OK, possibly pitched it a tad … Continue reading →

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A new design

Posted on September 8, 2008 by Ben Lavery

I have redesigned my webshite, mostly because I got bored and didn’t like the old design… You can still find it at: users.aber.a.uk/bil6 It has been tested using a number of browsers; each work OK, Opera and Safari for iPhone … Continue reading →

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Coding week – Day 5: Crunch Time

Posted on February 1, 2008 by Ben Lavery

Up at 8 am this morning and on the bus by 8:50. Got to an empty computer room to find only one of my team members there. I sat in wait until about 9:30, waiting for team members to appear, … Continue reading →

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Coding week – Day 4

Posted on February 1, 2008 by Ben Lavery

The morning started late with hardly anyone turning up on time. I spent the morning looking once again at some Postgres stuff, but gave up a little before noon.

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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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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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