Daily Archives: May 3, 2006

Beer-o’clock and sadness..

In my minor quest to visit as many of the UK Linux User Groups as I can, tonight is beer with Lonix – London Linux User Group.

I’ve visited a few LUGs now, including one LUG in the USA, and it never ceases to amaze me how much LUGs differ.

It’s the characters that …

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Podcasts

I’ve had my trusty iRiver IHP-140 40GB “Multi-Codec Jukebox” (that phrase makes me chuckle a little, it’s clearly trying to show that it’s not *just* an MP3 player – it plays many formats – but it’s a crap name) for some time now, and it gets used pretty much every day. It’s a great …

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Buy my stuff

Ever wanted to network a printer that doesn’t have a built in network adapter? Here’s your chance. I’m selling a Lantronix MPS100 on ebay.

Feel free to bid and buy it so I can retire early.

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Playing with DVB-T

For those not in the know, DVB-T is terrestrial digital television – or in the UK “Freeview”. I recently bought myself two “Freecom DVB-T USB Stick” digital television cards for my computer.

It didn’t work under Ubuntu Breezy because the driver wasn’t available in the Linux Kernel supplied with Breezy. So I upgraded to …

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