About time too. The UK Government has said it will accelerate the use of open source software in public services. Tom Watson MP, minister for digital engagement, said open source software would be on a level playing field with proprietary software like Windows. Open source software will be adopted “when it delivers best value for [...]
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gedit 100% cpu bug.
Since upgrading to Gnome 2.24, gedit has been hanging on launch and taking around 30 seconds to become responsive. A work around, while waiting for the bug fix, is to disable the ‘File Browser Plugin’ under Edit > Preferences > Plugins.
/dev/hdb died.
I had a hard disk failure late yesterday evening. That’s two now in recent months. No end of fiddling with fsck utils would remedy the situation but at least testdisk enabled me to copy the data off. I did try dd but it was proving painfully slow for some reason.
Today I have….
Today I have introduced a windoze user of many years to Linux. I have also introduced them to the dulcet tones of the Clash. I feel a warmth inside that comes from having done a good job. Days like these are the icing on the cake of life. It goes without saying that the trip [...]
