I got in from work to find this pack of Ubuntu Feisty CDs waiting for me.
With my basic maths qualification I make that about 10 days from the release (19th April) to it being posted (some time before 30th April ). I got a bunch of copies for x86 architecture and a couple …
Dell XPS Vanity Lights
I have a Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2 laptop. Long name for a big laptop.
It has some “vanity lights” on the lid, in the vents and speaker grilles. They are controllable via options in the BIOS and with a Windows based application. When I bought it the first thing I did …
After reading about babeldisk the “safe” Linux distro, I thought I would have a play. Being a tightwad and happy with Ubuntu I decided not to sign up and buy a copy, but download the ISO image and have a look and see what it had on it.
I booted up the ISO using the …
We have just had quite a warm weekend here in the UK. As temperatures rise, often so does the likelyhood of computer failure. In my experience this happens more in the home or small office where air conditioning isn’t quite so prevalent (in the UK).
One component that doesn’t like high tempreatures is the hard …
Paul asks “What are you using machines for” on his blog.
Being a geek I have a relatively large number of computers (compared with the average person), but probably not as many or as varied as other geeks. I’d be interested to see how my setup compares to some others.
Here’s the current setup at popey …
