27 August 2014
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What am I enjoying about the new Mac? Apart from the start up speed I’m definitely a fan of the light weight of the whole thing, which feels about half that of my previous laptop. Having drawn extensively on the … Continue reading
25 August 2014
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Put your propellor beanies on: I’m about to get geeky! One of the command line utilities that I find incredibly useful on the Linux command line is rename. You can change the name of a file or a whole batch … Continue reading
8 August 2014
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Curiousity may have killed the cat but it has been a huge asset in my IT career. Problems are often solved by spotting a tiny detail which gives a clue to the issue or opens a new method for solving … Continue reading
7 August 2014
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I got a new laptop at work this week. Having had a Windows 7 machine for the past few years, which I mainly use to host a Linux workstation via Virtual Box, I decided to take the opportunity to get … Continue reading
22 July 2014
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I was working with a colleague over at the JR this morning scanning in biopsy slides for one of the projects I am involved in. This is going to a boon to the study, enabling the pathologists involved to access … Continue reading
3 July 2014
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Tomorrow, my regular day off, I I have an afternoon meeting down in town so I decided to take this afternoon off in lieu. So, I’m just about to shutdown my computer and then a colleague needed help with a … Continue reading
1 July 2014
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Over the weekend, I was looking for a film to watch and discovered that Electric Dreams was available via YouTube: I am a little bit cautious about issues of copyright but, since the film has been up there for some … Continue reading
30 June 2014
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Following a conversation with one of my colleagues who works in Divisional IT support, it appears that my department has an above average level of Apple computers registered – approaching 50% rather than the 20% figure that represents the mean … Continue reading
28 June 2014
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I had a couple of days this past week with meetings in various parts of Oxford but was able to arrange things so that I travelled from home instead of from work. What difference did that make? It meant that … Continue reading
27 June 2014
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I had always assumed that, without the application of heating, indoor temperatures would follow the same profile expected outside; warmer at day and cooler at night. However according to my thermonitor gadget that isn’t the case. I’ve been putting it … Continue reading