As previously blogged my wife bought me a Slim Aluminum Apple Keyboard which I’ve been slowly configuring to work with Ubuntu and now I believe I’ve gotten a sweet configuration, to the point where I’m now more comfortable with my Apple keyboard than the standard Dell keyboard I use at work. Initially there were a Continue reading →
Downtime For about a month this site has been down. I host this website from my home cable connection and the PC it was running on developed several hardware problems and died. No data was lost because I had/have up-to-date backups. you can never be too careful ! So I used this opportunity to redistribute Continue reading →
Alan Doyle on April 17th 2009 in Hardware
Yes I’m feeling slightly self-indulgent today but hey it’s my birthday and amongst other things my beautiful wife bought me a Slim Aluminum Apple Keyboard and a Samsung NC10 in black. Slim Aluminum Apple Keyboard This is one of the nicest keyboards I’ve ever used although it doesn’t work quite perfectly under Ubuntu. I’ll blog Continue reading →
A couple of days ago I was having problems with my Internet connection but I’ve solved them tonight. I put my networking hat on (I used to write embedded software for routers and network switch equipment) and worked through a few steps to diagnose the issue … MTU. By default my router (Linksys WRT54G running Continue reading →
Alan Doyle on October 23rd 2008 in Hardware, Virgin Media
Tonight I’ve only been able to connect to some websites i.e. I can connect to ubuntu.com, linux.com but not osnews.com or ubuntuweblogs.org ??? Last month I was upgraded to 10Mb cable on VirginMedia but I was able to connect to all sites until tonight. The strange thing is 2 friends of mine are also with Continue reading →
Alan Doyle on October 22nd 2008 in Hardware, Virgin Media