the difference that is no difference makes no difference
Just a quick snapshot of the past few weeks The north coast of NSW in Australia is rather nice at this time of year especially the beaches. Vista sucks. Per usual, you go on holiday and a friend or relative asks you to fix their computer. Computer #1 was a pretty high spec ASUS laptop […]
So I bought an iphone. I’m not really the type that needs a smartphone, but I’d been reading all the hysteria about zillions to be made by selling apps on the Apple app store and being the type that is easily misled, I thought I’d have a go at this iphone development. Besides, I’d been […]
I’ve been playing around with TV tuner cards, Tivo’s and general PVR funcionality for a while now. Here in NZ, the free to air channels have only quite recently started broadcasting in digital, so most of my devices are analog. The digital Free To Air stuff (called Freeview here just like the UK) is broadcast […]
After my recent hard drive failure, someone suggested I go to the seagate website and type in it’s serial number to see if it was still under warranty. Sure enough it was under warranty until 2010 (must have been a 5 year warranty). Anyway, I followed the instructions to RMA the drive, and wrapped it […]
My Thinkpad T42 is getting quite old now and well used. A week or so back it started having a pinkish tinge to the screen when you turned it on or resumed it. The pink colour eventually disappeared after about 30 seconds and became the usual white. However, last Saturday the backlight decided to fail […]
So my switch back to slackware 12 went quite well on the thinkpad 600x, so I thought I’d do the same on the T42. I actually tried updating Archlinux on the T42 the other day. It told me it wanted to apply 177MB of updates. Thats just a bit too silly. So I installed Slackware […]
I have an Epson CX3500 multifunction printer/scannner/copier thing. Its spends most of it’s time with one ink tank requiring replacement. I should get rid of it, but it allows me to make excuses to go to my local Dick Smith Electronics store. Anyway, I have this USB CX3500 connected to my Debian Etch box and […]
I’ve been using Archlinux on my two Thinkpads here for quite some time now. Its generally been OK. It’s quite quick and configurable without forcing Gnome or KDE in your face. It has a package manager and everything seems to be compiled for i686 or better. One of the reasons I started using it was […]
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