Monthly Archives: July 2006

Yet more reasons to love Ubuntu.

By | Published: July 25, 2006

My Dell laptop has had an issue for some time. It’s not a major one for me, just a bit of a niggle. Problem is it doesn’t suspend properly. Well to be exact it doesn’t come back after it suspends properly. I’ve had this problem for a while, but haven’t really been bothered by …

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Some wierd bloke spoke to me on the train

By | Published: July 20, 2006

That would be me.

I’ve started speaking to strangers more. Here’s what’s happened so far.

A couple of weeks ago I spoke to a guy standing on the concourse at London Waterloo station. He was standing with an electrically powered bike. When I approached him and asked what it was, how it worked and so on, …

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Joined up Dell support

By admin | Published: July 20, 2006

(not)

I previously blogged about the problem with the video card on my Dell laptop.

On the Friday I called Dell up having had no response from their website. They talked me through some tests which included reinstalling the device driver in Windows and reinstalling Windows itself. Neither of these I could do as I …

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My broken Dell Laptop part 2

By admin | Published: July 10, 2006

Last wednesday I notcied X had locked up. I thought this might be a software problem so I tried a few things like changing video driver from the binary nvidia to the open source nv driver. I also did a full 24 hour memory test. The screen corruption still occured however. I sent a …

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Menu

By | Published: July 8, 2006

Laura stumbled across a shocking example of web design – as if I can talk! ;) .

Two words for you Laura: Microsoft FrontPage.

It does bad things to people.

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