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Archive for December, 2005
I like reading… so one of my New Year Resolutions (yes, I know it’s a bit early) will be to read all of the following: 28 out of 100 read so far! 1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien 2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman 4. The Hitchhiker’s [ Read More ]
Categories: to-do
I really like astronomy, and I’d recommend that everyone take a look at astropix (aka. Astronomy Picture of the Day) from time to time. Today’s picture is lovely: The Mysterious Cone Nebula, as was the picture from the Rosette Nebula from a few days ago. It’s my standard “homepage” at this stage. Also a note [ Read More ]
Categories: likes
To say that I am an avid reader is possibly an understatement. My parent’s used to comment that I eat books and there always seemed to be 4 or 5 lying about at any time… so why not share? I looked for a neat plugin for WP and I found one, Roblog’s “Now Reading”, had [ Read More ]
Spent the last little while finishing off some sites I was tweeking, and seemed natural to try to tweek this blog at the same time… trying to find a colour scheme that would work for me is harder than I thought. Currently liking the layout of pheonixrealm, but I will be changing to more “me” [ Read More ]
Categories: blog
Having spent the morning fixing the network here at home, I wondered what the network support would be like for my laptop…. did a quick google and came across lots of samba mentions and configs, etc…. but eventually just turned on the laptop, tried “Places” –> “Network Servers” and *voila* my workgroups appeared, all I [ Read More ]
Categories: ubuntu
In a similar vein to the previous post, I wanted to mount the shared drive, wasn’t sure before because it had nothing in it, so I windowed up and moved most of my files across, leaving only programs and their non-compatible filetypes behind. Helped me sort out the millions of copies of files I had [ Read More ]
Categories: ubuntu
I thought I had my windows partition mounting fine, used: sudo mount /dev/sda2 /media/windows/ -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222 After having created the /media/windows dir It appeared fine and then I added the line to the fstab : /dev/sda2 /media/winodws ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0 But on reboot it didn’t appear.. the problem? Yes, I can’t spell. [ Read More ]
Categories: ubuntu
I have an old 3G IPod, ok, well it’s 2 years old, that makes it old in tech terms. No click wheel, etc. How would Ubuntu like it? Well I left my firewire connector back at college, so I was relying on my USB connector, fingers crossed I plugged it in. 10 seconds later it [ Read More ]
Categories: ubuntu
I didn’t realise just how much I relied on the colorzilla plugin until I started using Ubuntu…. it doesn’t work in linux! This is quite upsetting and I can’t find anything that seems to be a replacement or alternative! It’s a nice little plugin that allows you to pick the colour of any section of [ Read More ]
