To anticipate and prevent
I’m writing this towards the end of my second full day of use on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron (Beta 5) on the Dell Precision M6300. (You know I just write all this out so its easier to google). I have to say that everything is going relatively smoothly. I’ve got a few different bits I’ll…
You might be asking yourself “Is he a glutton for punishment? Didn’t he just install Gutsy?”. I wouldn’t blame you. Yes, I enjoy pain — thats why I’m the IT Manager — because my own computer problems aren’t enough for me, I want everyone else’s problems too. As it were, I’m being “traded” laptops. A…
I checked my mail just a few minutes ago and found an envelope from Dublin Toyota Scion. I was a little surprised, as I wasn’t expecting anything from them. Regardless, I opened the envelope to find out they had stiffed me on the value of my trade in vehicle. Those bastards underpaid me for it!…
I know that I previously posted I couldn’t get MKV’s to run properly under Linux, but I wanted to correct myself slightly. Using VLC I could play any MKV’s. It seemed to me though that after they are a certain size (probably Mbits per second) they started to jitter as I previously described. Example: 170MB,…
So last week I was spending some time at a friend’s house and I decided I wanted to surf the web securely. Not because I didn’t trust my friend’s network (I helped him set it up), I just wanted to see if I _could_. Now I’ve got a server at home that runs 24/7, and…
If there is one single holiday that has meshed particularly well with the internet, it is April Fools day. In the last 5-10 years, April 1st has grown from mere pranks on friends to an event of epic proportions. Every year, on this fateful day, the internet goes NUTS. It is hard to go ANYWHERE…