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April 22nd, 2009
Bought a pair of Zoot running flats and a pair of tri-shorts down at Running Free this afternoon. Haven’t had a chance to try them out yet, but the rain should stop by tomorrow. I’m quite pleased with where my run and swim have got to over the winter – still lots of work to do getting used to a time-trial bike, but that’s coming along too.Getting to the point in the season where I need to start working on speed as well as endurance, so I’ve been adding in 50m sprints at the pool, and shuttle runs down at the local park during my 5k runs.
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April 22nd, 2009
I have an old laptop with a broken screen that’s not good for much, but with Ubuntu installed and stuffed in the back of a closet works fine as a server. With SSH now on my netbook I can work directly on the server, shifting the CPU-intensive heavy lifting away from a machine that relies on batteries. Once I’ve configured a tunnel through my firewall I’ll be able to work remotely on this server from anywhere.
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April 21st, 2009
Learning more about my new toy. Here’s the command for installing ssh:
> sudo yum install openssh-clients
One step close to the ideal thin client!
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April 20th, 2009
Now I’m using a netbook with only a few Gb of storage available, I expect I’ll start transitioning to using more web services where possible. What with google apps, wordpress, yahoo mail, facebook and so on, a lot of functionality has shifted from the desktop to the cloud.
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April 20th, 2009
Writing this on my new Aspire One that my beloved wife bought me today. It’s the 6-cell version, supposed to provide 7 hours of battery life. Have to see how that stacks up to reality. The Linux interface seems to work fine, especially once you learn how to get under the hood to the terminal – apparently the UI is a variant of Xfce. Had to poke around for a while to get the keyboard configured with a Dvorak layout, which in the end involved modifying xorg.conf.
Heather bought this for me partly to encourage me to write more, so watch out for an increased posting frequency.
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