Apple AM Lottery just moved a step closer

January 19, 2010Simon West No Comments »

Hi again after a long hiatus. Life gets so hectic and there are so many things to be done each day, I feel like I spend so much time deciding what should be top priority, that I don’t get round to actually doing any of it, although looking back at what has been done over [...]

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I don’t believe it!

October 24, 2009Simon West 8 Comments »

Yesterday I finally got round to buying a new laptop – a lovely Acer Aspire 5810T Timeline with 8+ hours battery life. All however is not completely rosy. I bought it from Comet, and the sales assistant who sold it to me told me I am entitled to an upgrade to Windows 7. Well, anyone [...]

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Countdown to a new Operating System

October 8, 2009Simon West 1 Comment »

Some people are getting excited about the new release of Windows… I however am far more interested in Canonical’s upcoming release of Ubuntu – version 9.10 also know as “Karmic Koala” on 29th October 2009. One of the exciting goals the Ubuntu team have had for this release goes under the banner “Social from the [...]

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Coming Soon…

October 1, 2009Simon West No Comments »

Plans are afoot to create an Apple AM : Taunton Hospital Radio LOTTERY! Yes, that’s right, we are going up against Camelot.
There are some major differences, however.

Ours will be by annual subscription at just £13 a quarter
It will be limited to just 2,000 tickets
Half the payment fund will be paid out in a single [...]

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Installing servers the easy way?

October 1, 2009Simon West No Comments »

My company has to install a number of new servers in the not-too-distant future, and they will be on the island of Curaçao. Understandably, we want the installation to go very easily. We use a system called Kickstart to install the GNU/Linux operating system Centos. This allows me to spend a morning writing a script [...]

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Welcome to my new blog

September 30, 2009Simon West No Comments »

Greetings and welcome to this, my brand new blog. In addition to Twitter, Facebook, IM, Email and all the old fashioned ways of communicating (phone, letter, talking, smoke signals) I thought I would add my five pence worth to the blogosphere.
If you have just stumbled upon this by accident, you might want to know a [...]

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