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Insulation – DIY

Cold Floors We own an old timber cottage. It's sitting on concrete peers on a sloping block, so wind can get under the house and chill the floor boards down. Insulating under the floors To try and take the chill off the boards, we have put insulation under the floor...

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What is iBus?

Just installed the Ubuntu 9.10 Beta and perusing the menus and I find under System ==> Preferences ==> IBus Preferences. Clicking on it causing a dialog: As far as I can tell IBus comes from here. From what I can tell it's an input framework that is probably some way...

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Ubuntu Math

The version number of Ubuntu is 9.04 and is based on the year and month of release. So 9.04 means 2009 month 04 (April). Therefore given that Ubuntu maintains a 6 month release cycle we can postulate: 4 + 6 = 10 So the new release 9.10 is due this month (October). And...

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Chromium Browser on Ubuntu 9.04

Installation Instructions for Ubuntu 9.04 Just installed Chromium (the Opensource browser Google Chrome is developed from). Very snappy. Seems reasonably stable for BETA software. So now we only have Chromium, Firefox, Konqueror, Lynx, w3m and other choices for Linux....

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Owner Builders License

After completing an ozob.com.au online owner builders course. Today I traveled to Newcastle to get my Owner Builders License. After getting the license I let the council know that I'm about to start using a "Notice of Commencement". Another small step/s in the reno...

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