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A Lament About The Loss of Music Stores
I miss music stores. It just struck me listening to St. Vincent’s new album (loving the song Broken Man from it). It shook loose a memory, how I first heard of St. Vincent. For me, it was walking through a music store, this one being the top floor of Eason’s on O’Connell Street, Dublin, Ireland.…
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Personal Injuries & Revenue Exemptions in Ireland
This is more of a public service announcement, it is not new, it is out there in the wild and has been for some time. But it is something that not everyone may be aware of and I have only read about recently. Basically, if you are subject to a personal injury award and/or settlement,…
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Reflecting On My 20 year Linux Journey
Now I get what Gnome is trying to emulate. I have been playing with MacOS the last two weeks, and having never used it before I was struck by just how familiar it is. If you can get on with Gnome, you can get on really well with MacOS. The problem with emulation though, is…
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Hello world!
I am back on WordPress, again. Mainly due to my moving hosting provider and this being part of the package. Moved from Gandi to OVH, only because the new package was much more competitive price wise. Nothing bad to say about Gandi at all, been a great few years. Them adding the charge to the…
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Loose Lips Sink Ships – Yes, I Could Hear You While In A Coma.
If you ever wondered if people who are in a coma can hear you, then my answer to that would be a solid, “kind of.”
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There Is No Guide For Life After Death
Finding My Way After a Traumatic Accident (and Dealing with Bureaucracy Along the Way) “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep”. In August 2019, I died. I cannot tell you what happened, from my perspective…
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Spiral Linux – You Little Wonder You
Have you heard of SpiralLinux? If you are a fan of Debian Linux based distro’s then it is well worth your time putting onto a USB and trying out. It has impressed me enough to become my daily distro. My own laptop is following Debian Testing, while the family PC is following the default Debian…
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Adventures with Manjaro Linux – Installation and Setup
I have roamed from the safe lands of Ubuntu and Debian based Linux and arrived at the shores of Manjaro, an Arch Linux based distribution. I could have gone the whole way and spun up Arch, but my command line skills rely heavily on finding the answers online so Manjaro with its GUI interface seemed…
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Xubuntu and XFCE Running on Chromebook
For years, I have been meaning to try out and Linux distro on a Chromebook. Now I have finally made that happen. I have installed XFCE, and subsequently the Xubuntu desktop, onto a Lenovo C330 Chromebook. The best part, it was surprising straight forward. Ideally I would have just gone ahead and installed a ready-to-go…
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Distro Hopped Again – Hello Xubuntu and XFCE
Like all things, my hardware keeps getting older, but nothing’s stopped working yet so until things go bang let’s make the most of what we have. KDE and Kubuntu were fantastic, I do really enjoy that desktop environment, and it shows as I have been hopping between that Gnome (and Unity) since 2007. Out of…
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