I was reading the latest copy of BBC Focus Magazine (which is a really good read for all things technology). One of the opinion articles was taking about phones in school.
I think it was Bill Thompson that was writing it and his opinion columns are very good. So he was saying that instead [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Phones in Schools?
Top of the world
Just a quick post today I’ll explain more in a later post but isnt this great.
Windows 95 Music
Well after my previous post I just had to go looking for a video of Buddy Holly by Weezer and there was a number of hits from google shame that for some reason I was not allowed to view them in my country. Oh well here is a couple of links that I found even [...]
Blue Screen of Death
Its the screen that all software Engineers fear the dreaded blue screen of death (BSOD for short). Back in the good old days of Windows 98 when you kind of expected to see these on a regular occurrence (at least once a day if not once an hour) you kind of got use to them. [...]
Graphics Drivers
When I was installing my new Firewire card Windows Update kicked into life with a new urgent update. So I thought
why not the firewire card is not working and so I might as well let it upgrade things and maybe just maybe it would kick it into life. At the same time I [...]
Um turn it off and back on again!
Ok so I did not quite do this but it is practically the same thing!!!!
After realising that my new computer did not have a firewire port to enable me to download some video from a camcorder I rushed out to purchase a firewire card (well rushed was more of a lazy car journey to the [...]
Where's my tree in this forest?
Over the last few years I’ve grown to like the things that linux can do (Mythtv is a good example) and I think its very good if you know what you are doing!!!!! but….
My apache server keeps crashing and since its in use alot there are lots of messages on the apache log but nothing [...]
Tabbed Browsers
I’m a big fan of tabbed browsing and use them all the time but I’ve started to notice the growing number of tabs that I seem to create during a day…. so I’ve been working on this blog and other things today and yesterday because I normally hibernate my computer because I cannot be bothered [...]
What about Pac-Man?
Its my first day with this blog and I suspect there will be loads of updates today….
While working on this blog and some other projects I’ve been catching up on some of the TV shows that I’ve recorded on PVR. I’m catching up with the Gadget show from the 12th May and they have just [...]
Why are the small things so hard?
First the problem, I ran out of space on my /dev/hda1 partition this afternoon causing my compile apt-get to fail. The partition is small because its a PVR machine and so my first throught was there must be a huge file, this was immediate followed by a) how the hell do I find a [...]