Ben Edwards's Brain Log - Theres nothing of interest here

Ben Edwards's Brain Log

Theres nothing of interest here

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This site contains random musings and pontification. The main reason it exists is so I can note stuff down and find it wherever I am (asuming I have access to a computer that is).

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How Linux sound recording succeeded when windows failed (493)

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No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering (177)

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Digital Rights Managment, bad for society, business, and artists (690)

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Making every other record have a coloured background in Reports 6i (113)

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Linux Debian Kernel 2.6 very quick and easy mini howto (sarge) (256)

Copying DVDs with debian (668)

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Linksys DEFW11S4 seting up, review and getting logs in linux (287)

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X Windows setup, PS2 mouse

Author:	Admin
Dated:	Friday, September 26 2003 @ 05:22 PM BST
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Just a quick not on PS2 mouse setup in debian. The device is /dev/psaux and the protocol is PS/2.

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Most Recent Post: 12/13 02:30AM by Anonymous

Setting up printers in Linux

Author:	Admin
Dated:	Friday, September 26 2003 @ 05:17 PM BST
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magicfilters is what to use (in debian at least). Just install the package and run magicfiltersconfig. Make sure you have lpr & gs installed.

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Most Recent Post: 12/13 06:37AM by Anonymous

NEXT 5 MINUTES 4 - International Festival of Tactical Media

Author:	Ben
Dated:	Saturday, June 28 2003 @ 07:05 PM BST
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Next 5 Minutes is a festival that brings together art, campaigns, experiments in media technology, and transcultural politics. Next 5 Minutes revolves around the notion of tactical media, the fusion of art, politics and media. The festival is organised irregularly, when the urgency is felt to bring a new edition of the festival together.

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Most Recent Post: 12/21 07:50PM by Anonymous

Peru goverment ditches Microsoft

Author:	Ben
Dated:	Tuesday, June 24 2003 @ 02:39 PM BST
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Read the letters between the two parties.

"First of all, I thank you for your letter of March 25, 2002 in which you state the official position of Microsoft relative to Bill Number 1609, Free Software in Public Administration, which is indubitably inspired by the desire for Peru to find a suitable place in the global technological context. In the same spirit, and convinced that we will find the best solutions through an exchange of clear and open ideas, I will take this opportunity to reply to the commentaries included in your letter."
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-05-06-012-26-OS-SM-LL

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Most Recent Post: 12/16 03:50PM by Anonymous

Geeklog - not that geeky

Author:	Ben
Dated:	Saturday, June 21 2003 @ 05:34 PM BST
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Geeklog is a weblog powered by PHP and MySQL. It allows you within minutes to set up a fully functioning dynamic website, and has many features to get you started. Thats what I'me using here. Get it from http://www.geeklog.net.

OpenOffice 1.0.3.1 released

Author:	Ben
Dated:	Saturday, June 21 2003 @ 05:31 PM BST
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OpenOffice.org 1.0.3 has a bug printing to a non-default printer. Please either dowload our patch to 1.0.3 or upgrade immediately to OpenOffice.org 1.0.3.1 if you are affected by this bug. The patch goes in your OpenOffice.org1.0.3 program directory, in "program."

Sorted out 'error while creating quota'.

Author:	Ben
Dated:	Saturday, June 21 2003 @ 03:37 PM BST
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In /var/log/messages was getting:-

oak kernel: VFS: Eror -5 occured while creating quota.
oak kernel: VFS: find_free_dqentry(): Data block full but it shouldn't.
oak kernel: VFS: Error -5 occured while creating quota.
oak kernel: VFS: find_free_dqentry(): Data block full but it shouldn't.
oak kernel: VFS: Error -5 occured while creating quota.
oak kernel: VFS: find_free_dqentry(): Data block full but it shouldn't.
oak kernel: VFS: Error -5 occured while creating quota.

How often do you reed non-corporate news media (not-for profit publications/websites)