Problem Using the laptop instead of the main PC I needed to refer to an email attachment. No problem, open Thunderbird and find the email. The attachment is a.bmp file; no worries, double click to open it. Problem; Thunderbird doesn’t know how and offers 2 options, “open with”and “save file”. […]
Running Kubuntu on a laptop that I occasionally dual-boot to Windoze XP. Over time the GRUB menu had filled up with old Linux kernal versions. A search revealed that cleaning it out was a bit more complex than I was hoping for but not too tricky and it worked. There […]
It’s been a long time since I did anything technical with an original XBox. I have a spare and now someone wants it so thought I had better check it out. It’s been chipped and at one point had a large HD installed. I found it had an original 10GB […]
Mid evening my internet access failed. A bit of address checking and I decided it was the Linksys router running DD-WRT that had failed. It looked OK but I couldn’t access it, even after a power cycle. After trying a few more IP addresses and I found it had gone […]
Why is nothing ever simple????? I’ve been experimenting with this WordPress Blog with Wiki plugin. The idea was to make much more use of it as a blog, to keep notes and document projects. In theory this should work. It should provide a framework that I just have to feed […]
You create a document or take a photo and where do you put it? Up until recently it sat on the hard drive on your computer and you may have shared it over a network or posted it on a website so that other could see it or possibly even […]
I use the TV as a computer screen. This means I need a wireless keyboard and mouse that work out to about 3 meters. I tried a few cheap ones but they all gave out at about 1-2 meters and an unreliable keyboard is about the most annoying thing I’ve […]
Here’s my latest thought regarding Windows XP Pro: F#$%ing useless, F#$%ing waste of time, F#$%ing piece of shit…….. You may have gathered that I am pretty pissed off. I have a old special purpose DOS CAD program that I recently reinstalled on a Dell laptop that dual boots windows and […]