Monthly Archives: September 2011

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Mozilla Thunderbird Bug – open with 1

September 25, 2011  in Computers / Rant Mode On  tagged bug / linux / thunderbird by PMB

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”. […]

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Cleaning out the GRUB menu 1

September 12, 2011  in Computers  tagged grub / kubuntu / linux by PMB

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 […]

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XBOX -1 1

September 7, 2011  in Computers by PMB

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 […]

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