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New hardware – planning

Monday, October 26, 2009

My primary workstation is a 3 and a half year old Dell XPS M1710 laptop and it is getting old – the 320 Gb hard drive is getting small and slow, the 3 Gb or RAM (expanded from 2 Gb) look too small and screen is turning brown in one corner. Also dead or dying: [...]

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Having a (pyro)blast with your new Ice Block

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Here is something I wrote some while ago, hope this will be useful for some World of Warcraft p(l)ayers. Has no other relation to Linux or Debian, except it works on it flawlessly. Also note that 2.3.2 patch went live last week. It is not a secret anymore that mages of all talent specs will [...]

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Almost a master

Friday, July 20, 2007

On Wednesday I had a viva for my Master by Research thesis on “Text classification by quality”. After a 15 minute presentation and almost two hours of questions from two of my examiners, I was told that I will receive my Masters degree (after minor corrections to the thesis). It is a great relief and [...]

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Wow 2.1.3 on Wine 0.9.40

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

If you are playing World of Warcraft on a Debian or Ubuntu system with newest Wine packages from WineHQ, then you might run into a problem – WoW-2.1.2.6803-to-2.1.3.6898-enUS-patch.exe files will crash on Wine 0.9.40 with some nastygrams sent in the direction of its mshtml implementation. Downgrade to 0.9.33 (like the version in feisty) and the [...]

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