Monthly Archives: July 2010

The quest for originality

July 26, 2010

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the things that I do in my free time and why I do them. Over the last year, the course I have been studying has taken up a lot of evenings and weekends, as well as nibbling away at a few days of annual leave. Despite this I’ve [...]

Geoff Sayers: Gone but definitely not forgotten

July 18, 2010

Geoff Sayers was the Head of Drama at St. Bede’s, the school I attended in the 1990s. Last week I found out that he had passed away, which was both a great shock and a great sadness. Geoff was one of those teachers whose individuality and commitment to their subject meant that every lesson was [...]

Ubuntu Lucid on the Viglen MPC-L

July 4, 2010

In order to be able to update a bug I’d filed against the graphics driver on the Viglen MPC-L, beloved hardware of the Ubuntu Podcast listeners, I set about installing Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, nicknamed Lucid. This wasn’t as straight forward as it could have been, so here’s how I did it: Downloaded the Ubuntu i386 [...]