Philbywhizz

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Browsing Posts published in May, 2008

Well, that didn’t last long did it. I got toally frustrated with different flavours of linux. After about the 5th distro, I got frustrated. While I wanted to ‘be cool’ and try something new, I didn’t want to spend my time fixing quirks, or tweaking settings, or dealing with ‘not-quite-there’ features. I wanted something that [...]

Well last week I finally did it – migrated off my windows machine at home and now running 100% linux. I was becoming frustrated with WindowsXP, it just wasn’t working for me anymore. Most of my apps I run I can run on Linux so I took the plunge. The latest version Ubuntu Linux was [...]

I’ve cut out the foam underlay to allow the plumbing of the weir to poke through. How did I get it in there? well, to get it out, I slide it to the left a little, and rotate it clockwise 90 degrees, then i can slide it out the front. It only ‘just’ fits (by [...]

Yesterday, I bought a sump for the reef tank. It’s size is 24″x18″x18″ which fits snuggly in the cabinet on the right hand side. This was the biggest size I could fit. I would have loved to have a 36″x15″x15″ sump, but there was no way to actually get it in there without some major [...]

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