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&A lovely evening, and with so many friends from Sun, and so many of Asad’s family & friends … 🙂 Here’s the link to all the photos in the album and if you follow it you can click View as Slideshow to see them on autopilot.

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Get the latest update. On a Mac, do Opt-A http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/31/google-earths-easter-egg-a-flight-simulator/

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Stop Carbon Ads? On London Bridge? Originally uploaded by alecmuffett Culled from today’s pictures. Hard to say if it’s anti-climate-change-activism, or anti-faux-environmentalism…

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Just back from Minibar London – it was nice, I wish there had been more speakers, but the guy from Moo.com was amusing, as was the chap from the company beginning with “Z” who were doing something about search for real-estate/lettings and other things… er, yeah, well I was at the back and the audio…

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Via Bart. Too silly not to watch. http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1770138

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Surprisingly sound… The TUC is advising companies that the outright banning of such sites in the workplace may be something of an “overreaction.” Instead, the group said, it’s much better to focus on setting up formal policies for acceptable use of such sites in the workplace.

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How a techie company *should* explain when it goofs up: Dreamhost: It All Falls Down Via Jim.

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I just got IM’ed by Simon Phipps who was making a transparent attempt to plug the latest (if awkwardly titled) posting on his Sun Blog – but that’s OK, because it’s a fairly cool thing 🙂 – although I believe the actual goal is best described on the relevant Sun Wiki page: Purpose: The goal…

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I have a 2.5Tb Solaris (nv71x) box, and the five disks which create the primary pool are joined together in RAID-Z. On that pool I have created five filesystems: default – just a vanilla filesystemcopies-2 – set copies=2 for data dittoblockscopies-3 – copies=3compress-gzip – use gzip compressioncompress-lzjb – use lzjb compression …and I have exported…

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I love Windows. I love the way you can boot it to do something small but urgent, having not booted for several weeks, and it will chug, chunder, whiz and chime, repeatedly demanding to be rebooted whilst achieving precisely nothing for you. So many flashing lights! So many resonant bongs! It’s like a flower that…

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On Geoff Arnold‘s Facebook Page – and I am in good company… 🙂

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I seem to remember Eric having an interest in Astronomy, so I am not surprised by this happening. I look forwards to trying it out.

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