A few days ago, I was planning on posting that I had migrated my laptop to Ubuntu 6.06 [Dapper Drake], away from Debian Etch (testing/unstable) which had been the primary OS. A copy of XP still resides on there for certain things, but it rarely gets used. I had been very happy with Debian’s performance as a desktop distro – my laptop had happily run icewm, and everything was peachy. Everyone knows that I like Debian.

Ubuntu is even better.Read More »You're Looking Very Dapper

So I bought some music recently (hey, it IS my birthday!), in high quality Vorbis format, of course.The files had the appropriate metadata, of course. Rhythmbox displayed a lot of nice information, of course. Windows Media Player 10 didn’t. Of course. I’m used to MS stuff being a bit backward sometimes, but this had me on the verge of mild irritation.Read More »Tag / Comment Support For Ogg Vorbis Files in WMP!

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Plan9 had a bit of coverage on Slashdot, so I thought I’d share with you how to give it a test drive in Windows.Read More »Plan9 from… Bell Labs

A friend of mine from University recently started up this forum. Please have a visit and help them get some new members. Even if you… Read More »Shameless Plug

Yup, those crazy Wikipedians have finally done it – they have surpassed the 1M articles mark. And they do mean one million articles. Stubs, redirects and so forth are not counted, otherwise there would be several million. Now, you may ask why I even care about such an event. Well, it turns out the subject matter of the article in question is one close to my heart…Read More »Wikipedia Reaches 1,000,000 Articles

Okay, I know how much you all loved my post about having my first /. post modded up to +5, so I thought I’d let… Read More »Submitted… accepted? Whoa!

Well well. EA decided to release patch 1.2 to the world yesterday, February 14th. I played a few rounds on a couple servers to see how the patch had affected things. My thoughts: some things have changed, but not all for the better…Read More »BF2 Patch 1.20: Initial Reactions

 Thats right, valve have finally delivered on thier promise to make new episodic content! Valve Software has revealed to GameSpot that Aftermath, the upcoming expansion… Read More »Half Life 2: Aftermath = Half life 2: Episode One

Just a small announcement (that probably didn’t need an exclamation mark) to the effect that this blog has been moved from http://bertieb.dyndns.org:50000/bertieb/ — which was… Read More »URI Change!

Friends on steam used to work…sort of. It would let you find your friends and then join whatever server they were on…sort of. It was… Read More »Steam Friends Beta