I don’t have much time for telly at the moment. Which is good, because as far as I can tell, there isn’t much worth watching. Mostly, we are reduced to watching re-runs of Mock The Week and QI on Dave. As far as ‘Drama’ goes, we tend to like American shows like 24. U and [...]
I have been on Microsoft Course 2262 the last couple of days for work.
A couple of times, I’ve had to hold my tongue. The best example is that there was a whole module entitled “Troubleshooting Issues relating to Internet Explorer”. I was disappointed to see the contents of the module weren’t (wasn’t?) http://getfirefox.com.
Just for fun, [...]
Cos occasionally, you get gems like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qEWhrjYg_o
Why is it that most of you will sit in the aisle seat, and either put your bag on the window seat or leave it empty? Also, why if there are 2 of you, will you sit on opposite corners of a bank of 4 seats, rather than making full use of a set of [...]
To answer my own post:
Blacklisting the gspca webcam module has restored my laptop’s boot speed.
http://www.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk/images/gutsy-20080203-3.png
It will take some more time to discover why, or even where I need to file a bug. On the plus side, I don’t use the webcam, so it’s not going to impair my use of the system.