Dual booting an Asus eeepc 1011px with Windows 7 and Ubuntu Oneric Ocelot
Published on November 21, 2011
£200 pounds lighter from PC World (I just like to be able to walk back into the shop if something goes wrong) and I walked out with an Asus EeePC 1011px. It wasn't quite the exceptional deal I was after, some confusing posters made me think that I was ...
Upgrading Mercurial
Published on January 24, 2011
I've been running two installations of Merurial but tried checking the repo generated by one installation by the other and got an error message today:
hg status
abort: requirement 'dotencode' not supported!
Seems I was running an older version of Mercurial that needed upgrading.
Sharing Symlinks and Shortcuts between Mac and Windows
Published on December 16, 2010
Symlinks don't seem to share nicely across a Mac and Windows environment.
Adding Grappelli and Filebrowser functionality
Published on December 10, 2010
Notes on adding the grappelli and filebrowser Django modules to the Django admin site.
Look mum revision control!
Published on August 29, 2010
Notes on recent experieces using free revision control software Subversion and Mercurial.
Apple config - ISync and a Nokia 5800
Published on June 13, 2010
Using ISync with a Nokia 5800
Squeezebox Streaming
Published on May 20, 2010
Notes on installing a squeezebox without the controller saving £150 to boot.
Make your own map tracks
Published on May 8, 2010
Hand-held GPS devices are a standard piece of kit found in hiking shops and are used by most outdoor enthusiasts from anglers to geocachers. These are fantastic for keeping track of your position and where you've been but you would likely be an enthusiast to buy one. However there ...
Misc Blog Notes
Published on March 29, 2010
Pretty much all of this blog was put together following James Bennett's "Practical Django Projects" (First Edition). Where I got stuck, and I did because I downloaded Django v1.0 - the book is written for v0.95 - I was helped out by reading the notes in Brett Haydon's blog Hedged Down.