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I have to say I’ve been looking forward to this for a while now. I’m absolutely sick of Windows Vista SP1 on my laptop (an Acer Aspire 9303) (Camaxtli). I’ve already ranted about Vista on many, many, many occasions and as of tomorrow I can kiss goodbye to Windows forever. I plan on running Ubuntu Continue reading →

Today is a new day, a new year in fact, I don’t normally do “New Years Resolutions” and I’ve just realised that I’ve been working on new versions of my 3 websites ( Darkbyte, Osmium Consortium and My DVD Collection ) for over 2 years and still haven’t put anything on-line. I’ve reckon I’ve rewritten Continue reading →

UPDATE (30/04/08): This web camera is now supported natively in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron), and above, which makes these instructions moot. I have an Acer Aspire 9300 ( 9303WSMi ) and I’ve finally managed to get the webcam working under Ubuntu with one caveat. The webcam in my Acer is also a USB2.0 WebCam. To Continue reading →

Well I finally got to try out Beta 2 of Vista last weekend, which I had managed to download from the Microsoft site before they closed its doors on the Beta test. I was looking forward to it because I’d heard a lot of mixed press about Vista and wanted to make up my own Continue reading →