Mantis drivers
This is from www.verbraak.org/wiki/index.php/Linux_Mantis_driver but his site seems to be down a lot so I have mirrored it here because I am trying to get my 1034 card to work…
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12 entriesUpgrading Drupal from 5.7 to 6.1
Well it took a while but I managed to get all three sites updated to Drupal 6.1. Riscy.biz and gonetogove.com actually have less features now than they did before because not all…
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Company of Heroes - Carentan
This is by far my favourite mission in Company of Heroes. Mainly because the computer is actually a challenge and the Axis use artillery and tanks. Initially you don’t have any…
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Nokia 6151 Problems
The company I work for recently got me a Nokia 6151 mobile phone and all the accessories recently as a replacement for the one that went through the washing machine. Initially I…
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Useful info for Gentoo users
Gentoo Forums :: View topic – emerge -U world – How often I found this post in the Gentoo forums. Someone had it in their signature and is a useful hint on how you SHOULD use…
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Windows Genuine Disadvantage
Sick of Microsoft sticking it's nose in your computer turn off the phone home facility of the Windows Genuine Advantage spyware. http://www.firewallleaktester.com/removewga.htm
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Another dead hard disk
Another disk drive died today. This one was the system disk of my HTPC which runs Gentoo. I first noticed the problem when it dropped off the network and then was taking forever…
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BRW Triathlon - Melbourne
I competed in the BRW triathlon today. I managed to finish the 400m swim, 10km bike ride and 4km run in 56 minutes 20 seconds. I’m pretty happy with that for my first ever…
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Upgrade Home to Professional
c’t 12/2005, page 148 – Windows XP HomePro Windows XP Home promoted to Professional This is great! Finally people can all use the good feature of Windows XP Pro even if they only…
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Cacti, SNMP and Gentoo
Here are the instructions I followed to get SNMP and Cacti working on Gentoo: emerge cacti cacti-cactidgroupadd cactiuseradd -g cacti -G cron cactiuser cd…
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Gentoo nano and word wrap
Well I said in my initial Gentoo post that I would detail how to make Nano the text editor default to non-word wrap mode so you don’t have to specify the -w option everytime to…
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The other side of the Lostcoast
Well I was happily running around the lostcoast in HL2 last week and I fell of the bloody cliff. Bugger. I managed to survive and therefore went for a walk. This is where I ended…
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