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By John, on May 29th, 2010
We got back from Spain last weekend, having driven down and back to avoid the uncertainty of flying while Eyjafjallajökull was still erupting. We broke the journey into 3 roughly equal-sized stretches, and overnighted in Chalon-sur-Saône and Perpignan in both directions. We have found nice restaurants in both towns, and try to always break . . . → Read More: Our house design makes progress
By John, on May 28th, 2010
… the thing moves with the speed and grace of an angry bee, while accompanied by the perfectly menacing whine of its little engine.
Wow!
(via Engaget)
By John, on May 20th, 2010
View along the botttom boundary of our plot – after involuntary re-landscaping
We have been in Xàtiva for a couple of weeks to have a series of meetings with our architect to discuss and finalize the plans for our house. The meetings went very well, and we only have some small details where . . . → Read More: Involuntarily re-landscaped
By John, on May 8th, 2010
With all but one seat now counted, the results of the British elections look like this (ignoring the smaller parties):
British election results after 649 seats have been counted
With the Liberal Democrats likely to be an important coalition partner in the new government, there is hope that the archaic “first past the post” . . . → Read More: Democracy in action?
By John, on May 2nd, 2010
… according to the Economist, who have redrawn the map of Europe, putting similar countries together. In the case of the UK, its components have been placed down by Portugal and Spain as the UK’s finances are in a similar state to those of its southern European compatriots.
In place of Britain, the . . . → Read More: England’s in the wrong place…
By John, on May 2nd, 2010
Using a Snow Leopard Server, (OS X 10.6.x) it seems that administrators have a problem if they have used Apple’s Managed Client for OS X (MCX) to provide software updates to their clients from their local server and then want to switch back to having the clients get the updates from Apple’s servers. The problem seems to lie with Apple’s Managed Preferences, which is part of MCX.
Here is what I understand happens, and a solution:
Continue reading Resetting Software Update to use Apple’s servers
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