Being a parent
Posted on Sun, Apr 30, 2006
(Last modified on Thu, Dec 24, 2020)
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Sophie is over 2 and a half years old now. It’s amazing the speed at which she’s grown up. We have full conversations where I quiz her about her day and she describes how she’s feeling, what toys she’s been playing with, and makes some self-projected stuff up about pink teddy.
When she was younger we disovered she was a bit of a “sucky” baby. Not in a “YOU SUCK!” kind of way, but well, she seemed better with a dummy (pacifier).
[Read More]A new look to popey.com
Posted on Thu, Apr 20, 2006
(Last modified on Fri, Jan 22, 2021)
| Alan Pope
I should add some content here :)
Password reset policy
Posted on Mon, Feb 27, 2006
(Last modified on Fri, Jan 22, 2021)
| Alan Pope
At work people often come up to my desk and ask if they can get their password reset. I usually do this and tell them their new password. I’ve decided I’m missing a trick here. What I now do is this.
User: "Please reset my password" Me: "Sure" *tapety* *tap* *tap* Me: "Right, your password is 'ubuntu'" User: "Huh?" Me: "Here, take this, it will help you" I hand them an Ubuntu CD pack.
[Read More]More busted computers fixed
Posted on Tue, Feb 14, 2006
(Last modified on Fri, Jan 22, 2021)
| Alan Pope
This is a long post which started life as a letter to my Dad explaining what I had done to fix his broken computer. I figured it wouldn’t hurt to paste it in here.
My Dad dropped off his PC to me. It’s an ASUS motherboard based generic PC with a 1GHz CPU, 256MiB RAM, 30GB and 40GB disks, and a CD burner. It has a Matrox 450 video card, a Pinnacle DV500 ieee1394 capture card, a sound card, some USB ports and a PCI modem.
[Read More]Disk failure
Posted on Tue, Feb 14, 2006
(Last modified on Fri, Jan 22, 2021)
| Alan Pope
As regular readers of my blog may recall, I recently gave my brother a PC running Ubuntu Linux. He uses it for surfing the web, getting email and chatting online. He also has an HP PSC 1610 printer/scanner/copier which works under Linux pretty well. He has a Dlink WAP/Modem/Router providing his ADSL connection via wired ethernet.
I had a phone call from him a week or so ago telling me the PC was broken.
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