I've just had a 3kW solar system installed at home, converting that sweet, sweet free-range organic sunlight into happy little electrons. I've got a Sunny Boy 3000TL inverter and thirteen 235W REC Multicrystalline panels on the roof that will hopefully be...
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Wikimedia Foundation Releases Their Server Config
I've just starred a new item in Google ReaderAn anonymous reader writes "The Wikimedia Foundation has released their Puppet configuration in a public git repository. They describe this as the first step in a project called Wikimedia Test/Dev Labs, letting...
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Trialling Google Ads
I'm trialling Google Ads on the blog portion of this site. They are now appearing on the main blog page and on the individual posts pages. I'm not getting a huge number of hits, but it's pretty consistent at around...
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VMware Fusion 4 levels up for Lion virtualization
I've just starred a new item in Google Reader Winter turns to spring, night to dawn... and the two 800 lb. gorillas of the Mac virtualization market trade updates once again. A fortnight ago it was Parallels 7 hitting with...
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Updated JAMF Casper Tech Paper & JAMF Conference
I've just starred a new item in Google ReaderNot sure how, but I failed to announce the recent release of JAMF’s newly updated tech paper “Simplifying Adobe CS5 and CS5.5 Administration with the Casper Suite” document. This has been updated...
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? The New Apple Advantage
I've just starred a new item in Google ReaderPeter Bright wrote a good piece earlier this week at Ars Technica, documenting his attempt to buy a MacBook Air-like Windows laptop (he doesn’t want an Air running Windows using Boot Camp...
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Picocom 1.6 binary package for Mac OS X 10.6
I'm finding I need to do more stuff talking to a serial port, and picocom seems to be the best terminal emulator I've found for Mac OS X. I was previously using screen, which is shipped with Mac OS X and...
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Wacom Inkling
I've just starred a new item in Google Reader Wacom's Inkling is a pen that draws both on paper and on-screen, tracking the artist's linework with 1024 levels of sensitivity. At $200, it's barely even expensive! The Inkling will be...
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Test Websites In Internet Explorer 9, 8 and 7 Under Linux / Mac OSX
I've just starred a new item in Google Reader Microsoft has created some customized Windows VHDs with the purpose of allowing web designers to test websites in Internet Explorer 9, 8 and 7, for free. To make it easier to...
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Update to Automated Installs of Mac OS X Lion
I've just starred a new item in Google ReaderUpdated tools are here, or if you’ve cloned the Git repo, do a `git pull` to get the changes. When the “Install Mac OS X Lion” application runs, it queries Apple’s Software...
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