Aug
12
Eva is rapidly growing up (2 years and 4 months) and it will not be long before she is surfing the web. She already asks for websites to be brought up, she loves the night garden website and asks ‘press the night garden button’ every time I am sat with the laptop. Although I like …
Jun
07
The title of this blog post will be a scandal in many people’s eyes; however, I will justify what I mean later in this post. In the technical circles there are many that continually bash the big commercial software companies, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and so on for producing software that contains bugs and security flaws …
Jan
28
Having just posted a good write-up of Virtualbox I am having a strange problem with my Ubuntu Desktop. I decided to update it all, so ran the ‘apt-get update’ which was fine, but when I ran an ‘apt-get upgrade’ it decided it needed to download 150mb or updates. This was expected so I allowed to …
Jan
27
Following my recent re-install of my desktop machine I have followed the direction we are heading at work and setup Virtualbox with several environments each with a different OS. The Desktop PC I am running is relatively old, Pentium 4 1.8Ghz with 3Gb of RAM. I have the following running in Virtualbox Windows XP Windows …
Jan
10
Having managed to rescue the partition tables of my machine using ‘The Ultimate bot disk’ I could then boot the machine up into windows, however it was so slow all I could do was login, I could not browse drives or copy anything off. I took the disk out and used a USB to IDE …
Dec
02
I have for a long time been running a media centre in various guises, starting with Ubuntu and MythTV on an old laptop which worked nicely for our requirements until we purchased a new Panasonic Viera TV which took a SVGA input. This opened up many more possibilities for the media centre to be more …
