• Royal Mail strike

    Today the Royal Mail have asked us all not to use post boxes so as to avoid backlogs when the strikes are over. There will be no deliveries until next Thursday. My question: since it was privatised, and mail delivery has been opened up for competition, why does this affect me? Why can’t I just…

  • JOIN ME!

    I’ve created my first PledgeBank pledge!

  • IPP browser

    I’ve added an IPP browser to system-config-printer, similar to the SMB browser. Screenshots below.

  • Bournemouth Eye

    Bournemouth from above Originally uploaded by cyberelk11 We went up in the Bournemouth Eye on Saturday. It’s a tethered helium-filled balloon that reaches 500 ft above the Central Gardens in Bournemouth. I’ve been wanting to go on it since we moved here!

  • Testing duplex printing on Fedora

    It was a while before OpenOffice.org and Evince both worked correctly with the GTK+ print dialog in Fedora Core 6, and most of the problems were with duplexing and printing multiple copies. Intrigued by a message on the fedora-list mailing list complaining about problems with duplex printing, I decided to spend a bit of time…