The End of an Era...

Graduating on the 15th of July means that I am no longer tied to the Aberystwyth University, legally no longer a student, and at the end of my 18 year ‘career’ in education…

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Remote Volume, the Geeky Way

Today I was sitting in the chair watching a film playing on my Mac Pro. After much getting up and sitting back down to turn the light off, tilt the screen, etc. I found that the sound was too quiet, and I was darned if I was going to get up again! I had my MacBook sitting on my lap, and was sure I could change the volume from that.

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Dissertation is over...

I meant to blog about this ages ago! Better late than never I suppose…

Back in April (April 22nd to be precise) I handed in two copies of my 72 page document which outlines everything about my project. I wanted to blog about my dissertation while I was doing it, but the thought was always pushed back by other thoughts of actually doing the project.

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Changes to the site

So, over the last week and last night I have been working on a script to automagically generate galleries, not that that is finished I have a brand new gallery up and running.

I have also created a breadcrumb script, in the status bar of the window you should see a new breadcrumb trail :)

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Sun VirtualBox becomes Oracle VirtualBox and grows into version 3.2

So Oracle had Sun for a fair while now, all of the sites have been re-branded, and finally, as of Tuesday, the stable release of VirtualBox was also re-branded.

The icon has finally changed, see below for the old and new:

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Exhibition in London

Faye and some others from the Aberystwyth university are putting on an exhibition in London between 2nd April and 16th April. The exhibition is taking place in the Proud Central Gallery (32 John Adam Street - WC2N 6BP), just off the Strand and literally a minutes walk from Charing Cross.

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Next generation Sun Ray hardware is out!

Oracle have uncovered a new Sun Ray (ultra) thin client recently. They seem to have been quite quiet as I haven’t heard any news about it.

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My Mac knows about the iPad

I was just browsing through the /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources folder on my MacBook, just to see what was there, and I suddenly spied the iPad icon:

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Weekend in London

I’ve spent my Easter weekend in London with Faye. She has a exhibition at the Proud Central Gallery (Open for the next two weeks!). I travelled from Aberystwyth to Faye’s home in Carmarthen on Friday, then from Carmarthen to Cardiff by car on Saturday, then Cardiff to London on the MegaBus. Saturday was the opening, and it went very well indeed!

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Gruml

I get mildly annoyed when using applications that are hosted on the web. For example, I’ll use web mail if I have to, but I’d much rather use Apple Mail or Thunderbird…

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