My new mission is to get as many of my ‘non-technical’ friends on things like Twitter and Facebook. They have both been extremely useful this last week. Lisa has been in hospital. Understandably, a lot of different people have wanted to be kept up to date. With Facebook & Twitter (Especially when using my mobile [...]
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 [...]
Today, I have the happiness. I now have a DVD player in the living room that can play Multi-region DVD’s, as well as XVID/DIVX encoded videos. (In case anyone is interested, it is a Cyberhome DVD401 bought from Amazon.co.uk for the staggering sum of ВЈ17.99 + postage & packaging a couple of years back).
This means [...]
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, [...]
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.