I’ve been thinking about the tech stuff I want to take with me overseas to Europe in July. Computer is probably a no-no, don’t really want to cart that around. Ipod is a bit unneccesarry. Seems like a silly idea to go overseas and listen to music that I can listen to [...]
more …I got so sick of comment spam that I have added Did You Pass Math? to the plugins for this blog. Hope the 3 of you who comment here can figure out how to add up numbers when posting a comment
Wish that Tiki Bar Tv would put up [...]
Read this yesterday. Basic synopsis is that a guy from Microsoft Research labs has been putting everything he does into data storage. Photos of where he goes (taken automatically), emails, documents, recordings of phone calls and video of meetings. It all goes into his computer automatically to be accessible at [...]
more …Just been on a mamoth road trip for work. Tuesday night I went to Camperdown and stayed the night with conrosco. Wednesday I drove to Lake Boga via Colac, Ballarat and St Arnard. Today it was back down to Melbourne via St Arnard again. Two Road Safety Audits in three days [...]
more …It has taken me 30mins and about 5 website refreshes to get my online phone bill.
First I had to figure out what my login and password is. I only pay my phone bill once a month, so the password is not something I am going to remember easily. Also, due [...]
Fixed the computer!!!
Managed to apt-get my way out of trouble. Got some good help from someone on a mailing list as to what to do, as I wasn’t completely removing everything when I was trying to apt-get out of trouble before.
Computer crashed on Monday. The / directory was a bit full. So full that I couldn’t even open man pages because they took up too much space.
Got some help from Strauss and Bec fixing it. Seems the problem was the 4 GIG FILE!!!! in /var/archive that I had told the computer to make without realising. [...]
Finally got my DVD player to work under linux. Not really sure how, installed a few more packages that I didn’t realise that I needed first time round. On the down side, now I’ve broken other stuff.
Lilypond, which I only just installed (again), won’t work. The previous installed version, which I got through a Debian [...]