I have nothing against Unity but on a least on one of my very old machines is runs too slow. There are too many delays as the machine tries to do something that should be routine. Running the Classic Gnome is quicker on that machine. I also found Classic Gnome snappier on my netbook (NC10). [...]
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Gnome in Ubuntu 11.10 Classic Gnome or Gnome Shell
Posted: 15th October 2011 by graham in Gadgets, Linux0
Nature and structure of dependability arguments particularly but not exclusively in relation to interactive systems
Posted: 6th October 2011 by graham in Gadgets, My life, smileWhat does this man do? I met a nice chap last week at a business meeting to do with the Christian Unions at the two local universities. I had not met him before so was particularly interested, after exchanging emails about something, to click a link at the foot of his email. The link took [...]
Excellent! In future years will be looked back upon as a design classic. This is a class gadget. As I said in a previous post I do not shave with a toy razor (Gillette Fusion, etc) with ludicrously overpriced blades, I shave with a double edged safely razor. Recently I was able to get a [...]
Needing a new watch I happened to notice this one in the window of Bulmer’s, the second-hand shop in York that sells all sorts of treasures. I liked the look of the clear face and the low price of £20. I decided to take the chance and bought it. It was not until closer inspection [...]
John Smith first demonstrated this knot in 1990
Posted: 19th August 2011 by graham in Gadgets, My life, smileIn a second-hand bookshop, sitting in the tea room at the back of the shop, I spied this book, The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Knots. At £3 I decided it was a ‘must buy’. What does it say about me that I should happily read a book about knots?! I came to the mention of the [...]
‘Google deletes last 7 years of users digital life and shrugs’ is the title of the scary blog post.
Posted: 24th July 2011 by graham in Culture, GadgetsI saw it on Twitter @MikeTRose retweeted by @Glinner (Graham Linehan). You can see the blog post here. If this is true it alerts us all to putting too much trust in companies to hold our stuff securely in the ‘cloud’. Eggs in one basket warning! I do hope Google get this sorted, though it [...]
Would rather have a Brompton. The GM EN-V does 25 miles an hour with a 25 mile range. Looks less fun than a bicycle. Why not just get on a bike?!