Archive for June, 2009

Waiting for results…

My grades for the Semi Structured Data… module will hopefully be out next week. I’m fairly confident, as my coursework marks were safely in the pass territory, so it’s not bothering me too much. If I wasn’t confident, I’d probably be a nervous wreck by now. I have an exam voucher for the Sun Certified [...]

Posted on June 27, 2009 at 2:14 pm by Paul Brabban · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Unsheffield 2009 Briefing…

I’m volunteering live blogging and photography services at unsheffield 2009, an ‘unconference’ themed Future Users of Cool Technology over the coming weekend. Unfortunately, the briefing tonight didn’t finish until late, and I’ve been downloading and editing my photos under Linux for the first time – which explains the late hour, and my heavy eyelids. There’ll [...]

Posted on June 19, 2009 at 1:16 am by Paul Brabban · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Ubuntu 9.04 Teething Troubles

Update: This seems to be a fairly Dell-specific problem, but there just might be a fix, as detailed in this ubuntuforums thread. Long story short: you need to update your menu.lst file (mine’s in /boot/grub/menu.lst), and append the entries i8042.reset i8042.nomux i8042.nopnp i8042.noloop to the line beginning with the word kernel for your current kernel [...]

Posted on June 15, 2009 at 9:35 pm by Paul Brabban · Permalink · 2 Comments
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15 120ths of an MSc – Hopefully…

That’s it, first module all done. Unless I failed the exam, of course, in which case I will be very sheepishly blogging to that effect and about my resit sometime over summer! The weather in the UK has been absolutely gorgeous this last week whilst I’ve been trying to revise, giving me plenty of excuses [...]

Posted on June 4, 2009 at 10:15 pm by Paul Brabban · Permalink · One Comment
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