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GroupWise 8.01 on Debian Testing

Following on from this post about installing the GroupWise client in Ubuntu, I spent some time refining the technique for the newly released GroupWise 8.01 client and Debian 5.0 Testing which is making an appearance on my main home computer.

The steps were as follows:

1. Get the GW client from Novell.

2. Install [...]

In memoriam – John Peel

Is it really 5 years….fuck.

No Disco!

BNP QT

It was indeed an education to see Nick Griffin on QT last night. The “acceptable” face of the far right squirmed and squealed and weaselled, under a wilting and sustained attack from the panel and the audience.

If he’s the best that the BNP can do, we should all be safe. He has none [...]

Peking duck

Well not quite. I spotted this strange creature on the Water of Leith yesterday, and managed to grab these very poor images with my Blackberry’s camera.

A Mandarin Duck! It has those strange sail things on its back and it was an aggressive little thing, fighting with the male Mallards it was [...]

Maj

Nice pearl necklace, your Ma’rmness.

Now fuck off and make way for a republic.

Alpha Course

Seen this poster?

The Alpha Course is the Liberal Democratic wing of evangelistic Christianity. Come and be indoctrinated with our errant nonsense but in a non-threatening, cardie-wearing, dogma-less, warm, fuzzy way. No sectarianism here.

A member of the National Secular Society, decided to fill out the questionnaire above, with the obvious and correct answer, [...]

Coat hangers

I saw this tweet from Stephen Fry.

This is final proof of the man’s genius.

I have hated fucking coat hangers for decades. They don’t hang when you want. They fall from the rail, to the furthest, rearest corner of your wardrobe, behind all the clothes you have just hung. Coats slide off them [...]

New router

Apologies if you were trying to access the blog in the last couple of hours, but I have installed a new router which obtained a new IP address from Virgin. This needed to be propagated through their DNS servers and so you may not have been able to connect.

After 10 years with NetGear routers, [...]