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Twitter …finally

So I’ve finally got my act together and opened a twitter account. For anyone interested, I’m http://twitter.com/TimCreswick (@TimCreswick)
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Normal PDF viewing with Sony Reader PRS-505

My primary reason for buying an eBook Reader was for the large number of technical PDFs, white papers and carefully formatted user guides that I read for work. I found it very hard to find how well these pre-formatted PDFs would display on the device, with a lot of people saying that they were barely [...]
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Scripted management of Solaris 10 COMSTAR iSCSI targets

We’re using one of our Solaris machines to publish iSCSI targets to some VMware ESXi hosts (initiators) for client virtual machines. To make provisioning new LUNs as simple as possible I’ve written an interactive script that first creates a ZFS backing store, then creates the LU for STMF, gives you the option of creating a [...]
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Using the Dell Latitude E6400 Built-in GPS

I recently took delivery of a new Dell Latitude E6400 laptop to use as primary workstation. All things considered it’s turning out to be an excellent choice. One of the things that surprised me was the presence of a GPS transciever built into the laptop as part of the HSPA 3G wireless card. Viewing in [...]
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