I had arranged to travel up to Wolverhampton with a bunch of reprobates from HantsLUG, the co-ordination of which involved two cars, two drivers, two hotels, three pizzas and one GPS system. Setting off after our respective work days ended, we converged on Farnborough, the staging point for our journey. We fuelled up on pizza [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2006
LUG Radio Live 2006 – Part Three
July 26, 2006LUG Radio Live 2006 – Part Two
July 25, 2006OK, so this isn’t the promised review of LRL either. I’m still knackered, and spent 2 hours getting home from work (normally 15 minutes). I’ve spent most of the evening responding to people who signed my GPG key at LRL and issuing them with the relevant challenge to respond to. Oh, and I have iFolder [...]
LUG Radio Live 2006 – Part One
July 24, 2006I was at LUG Radio Live at the weekend, and it rocked. There’s so much to write about, but I’ve not had time to write anything this evening. (In fact, I wanted to be in bed by 9pm to catch up on my missed sleep – hah!) I will write about the weekend tomorrow, I [...]
It stands for Memory, dolts!
July 16, 2006PC World adverts are generally very annoying. But their current advert includes the bland sales drone flogging an HP laptop with the phrase, “It has a huge one gigabyte RAM memory.” Just another thoughtless tautology from an ill-informed writer, I suppose. And another reason not to shop there.
OpenGPG smart card, GnuPG and an ACS ACR30U reader. Part Two.
July 10, 2006My OpenGPG card arrived, looking very much as it did on the website: Pin It These cards are basically the same as the ones issued to FSFE members, but have a different design printed on them. As far as I can tell, they are produced by the same company that produces the FSFE ones, although [...]


