Just got a Samsung Galaxy Note GT-N7000 !!

Just received this by courier! Fantastic, it’s huge! Right hand side is level with a UK / IRL size electricity plug.<p>right hand side </p>

Viewsonic VG2436wm-LED

My awesome new Viewsonic VG2436wm-LED monitor (pics pending). Another fantastic gift to myself ;-) Thanks Ros! No problem, anytime Ros. 24″ 1080p, colours look vibrant, contrast ratio is high. Viewing angles

OCZ Agility 3 60GB

Santa’s been! Actually I bought this one myself. I have a Lenovo R400 Thinkpad, it takes about 4/5mins to boot up and hard drive always seems to be thrashing. Seemed to be getting 40-60 MB/sec moving large files off the hard drive which is pretty shit. Bought myself an OCZ Agility 3 60GB and fuck…

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Firefox v4

Upgraded to Firefox v4 there last night. Seems to want to crash all over the shop. It’s also using a whopping 400+ MBs of ram. I’d recommend any Firefox users delay their upgrade until next incremental release, at least (version 4.1?). Other than that, the GUI interface now resembles Google Chrome. There is also built-in…

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700GB of data gone :-(

The hard drive in my Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive (hmnhd) has died with the loss of 700GB of data. This is extra annoying as i was in the middle of collecting data from all of my machines into the one place (the dead drive) with the idea that i’d then make a backup…

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“C Programming in Linux” by David Haskins. An alternative to “The C Programming Language” by Kernighan and Ritchie

I found this great book for learning C. Lesson 1 is the usual “hello world” console app, but literally the next example dives into using it as a CGI script. It teaches all the usual C console output stuff, but concentrates on web programming with C and apache web server. This is great, as the…

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