Tag Archives: Billy Dickson

The Paris Marathon 2008

Posted on April 7, 2008 by billy

Having trained faithfully for the last 4 months in all weather, the trip to Paris was filled with anticipation. We arrived on the Friday and proceeded directly to the Marathon Expo not realising how far from the Airport, the Expo … Continue reading →

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Cleaning up my MP3 directory using the find command

Posted on March 11, 2008 by billy

I’ve just wrote a quick bash script to delete all the Thumbs.db and desktop.ini using the find command, from my MP3 collection on my home linux box. I also found some nice bash script sites in the process. Advanced techniques … Continue reading →

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Howto – Backup your files automatically to a second hard disk in Linux

Posted on February 28, 2008 by billy

This “Howto” only really applies to a single workstation and is a quick and easy solution to backing up your own files, if you were backing up a server with numerous users, you would of course backup to another machine … Continue reading →

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Freshnlow Glasgow Half Marathon

Posted on September 4, 2007 by billy

Did my first half marathon on Sunday, the FreshnLow Glasgow Half Marathon and I’ve got to say, I really enjoyed it. The training involved wasn’t quite as strenuous or time consuming as a full marathon and on the day the … Continue reading →

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The Pitreavie AAC Forth Bridge 10K

Posted on August 12, 2007 by billy

Just finished “The Pitreavie AAC Forth Bridge 10K“, this is the second time I’ve competed in this race, it was hard work but well worth the effort. Going by my running watch I did it in approximately 42 minute, I’ll … Continue reading →

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