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E by gum

February 8, 2010 – 8:48 pm

A rant I’ve been queuing up for a good couple of years, but haven’t yet got round to committing to ink (or pixels) is the strange phenomenon of e-things.  It started reasonably enough with e-mail.  Its like normal mail, but sent electronically.  Fair enough.  I’d argue that the UK should be talking about “I’ll drop you an [...]

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Making your wireless router from Virgin Media work with your Mac

January 23, 2010 – 9:00 pm

Finally, I’m up and running with Virgin Media broadband at home.  They give you a free wireless router, but all the setup instructions and the setup cd’s are for Windows.  The bloke who installed the cabling suggested I rung the £80,000 a minute phone line.  Panic not people, follow these instructions…
With everything turned off…

Plug the [...]

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Child security gone wrong

January 13, 2010 – 7:09 pm

I received a very wierd email today.  Somebody has signed up to the Barbie website, and given my email address as their parent (which I hopefully am not, or at least nobody got round to telling me).  The site has then email me, giving their username.  They’ve also included lots of helpful links which I [...]

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The state of the nation

December 22, 2009 – 8:56 pm

I’m sitting this evening, watching TV, something I normally pour scorn on. Call me elitist, called me a snob, call me posh (if your vocabulary only gets that far) but most of the stuff on TV is just drivel. Thats why I’m watching a stack load of divx files, not whatever it being beamed [...]

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XBMC on Ubuntu running really slow?

December 22, 2009 – 8:30 am

Last night I finally got my Ubuntu 9.1 box up and running properly.  It talks to my wireless, it talks to my telly, it connects to my NAS box and it even has blue teeth!  How?  I plugged in all of my peripherals, and reinstalled from the latest download.  I’d twatted about trying to get [...]

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