Technical stuff

I Tube – Do You?

August 19, 2006
I Tube - Do You?

I couldn’t wait any longer, I had to find out what all the hype surrounding YouTube is about. That canadian girl started me off with a link to a haunting film about a giant little girl puppet. While I was there I came across my fave advert – the Tango/Bravia spoof: I only caught it [...]

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Stressful upgrade to movable type 3.31

July 31, 2006
Stressful upgrade to movable type 3.31

I knew I should not have attempted this upgrade. I made the same mistake last year and it resulted in approximately 27 hours of high anxiety while I desperately scrabbled around every user forum trying to find an answer to “how the hell am I going to get my blog back?!”. Well at least todays [...]

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Slow Start Up

July 18, 2006
Slow Start Up

After a few months of use I find that my computers always start to crawl at startup. I find this really irritating and my sony vaio is particularly problematic as there are hundreds of programs running at any one time. MSCONFIG is a useful tool for clearing up unnecessary utilities from the startup but it [...]

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Wardriving

April 30, 2006
Wardriving

I’ve got a couple of new gadgets recently: a Dell Axim 51v PDA and a sweet dinky Sony Vaio TX. Both are titchy, all singing all dancing computers and both have wireless LAN functionality. Now I didn’t think this was going to be so much use but when I got home I discovered that I [...]

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