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Hum, so there’s another UKGovWeb Barcamp in the pipe-line. Good-oh, says I.
To work around my hatred of PBWiki’s “notification” system, I’ve just re-appropriated (and made ‘ukgovweb-check‘) my dell-order-checking script to work for the wiki-page; changelog is that the script now uses lynx instead of wget, and that we send the difflog, rather than the [...]

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If, like the guys in the ORG HQ, you find yourself unable to upload images in a Wordpress Blog, and are befuddled by the reams of posts &c on the web, well, here’s another idea that might sort you out:
Remove the crap from old installs, in your ~/.mozilla directory. And by crap, well, I mean:

appreg
mozver.dat
pluginreg.dat
plugins/

cd [...]

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Well, in an half-arsed manner, I’m finally catching up with this century’s gizmo, that most people didn’t believe I didn’t use.
RSS.
I say kinda, ‘cos, despite having finally found something non-intrusive, and with a UI that doesn’t suck, I still don’t check the webpage it makes. Despite it updating.
Of course, I should have thought “I know [...]

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Gah. It’s been quite a while since I’ve needed to install Windows on a stand-alone set-up. I’d forgotten how much stuff I find is needed to actually make the thing frikkin useful.
As this blog doubles up for my memory pad, here’s the list of stuff that I’ve just installed:

Firefox
Thunderbird
WinSCP
PuTTY
Spybot
Avast
OpenOffice
Pidgin
XChat (silverx’s)
The MS PowerToys
Flash Player
AIR
Acrobat Reader
GVim
GIMP
iTunes
VLC

SP3 (given [...]

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