On Friday, after three days experimentation, Arch Linux replaced Slackware as my main Linux distribution. Slackware is still installed, but the machine now boots into Arch by default. There are a few different reasons for this. One was that GNOME 2.10 is included in the official package repositories, while Slack still ships 2.6 and may …

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Ever since the damp got to my minidisc player in the Philippines, and it became erratic and unreliable, I have been thinking of getting a new portable music player of some description. I have now done so, having got myself a shiny new iRiver H120, which arrived this morning. So far I’m fairly pleased. It …

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