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Should it work?

I have one of these on my laptop:

I have one of these from Ebay (cost a couple of quid):

I have one of these from my box of cables:

I have one of these in my living room:

Should I be able to link the 4 together and view the laptop output(Ubuntu) on the TV? If so, could [...]

Tiscali Fair Usage

I signed up with Tiscali unlimited for broadband. we’ve just bought our first house, so I went for the cheapest option, at the best speed for my area, with unlimited usage. It got turned on on Saturday.
It is now Tuesday, and I have just had an email from Tiscali, warning me about my usage. Apparently, [...]

Tempation On Microsoft Course

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, [...]

Faster Ubuntu!

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.

Slooooow Ubuntu Boot

Also posted to the Ubuntu-UK mailing list, but I would appreciate it if someone could take a look at a bootchart image from today, and hazard a guess as to why my computer takes (metaphorically) 3 days to boot?
http://www.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk/images/gutsy-20080202-1.png
Image is fairly large, so apologies! It looks like modprobe & udev are taking the time, but [...]