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Decided to take the plunge yesterday and change from dual booting XP and Ubuntu 8.04 to dual booting XP and Ubuntu 8.10. Bad idea. Instead of an upgrade I just blew away the old installation and installed 8.10. I had no problems whatsoever during the installation or the first boot. I didn’t anticipate any problems [...]

It’s the middle of October.The 16th of October to be precise and I’ve just seen a flaming christmas ad on the T.V. Sadly it was for a funiture supplier so it seems they haven’t bothered taking any notice of Grandads Open Letter to them. It seems that the marketing droids are determined to Americanise all [...]

As we all have pretty much screwed seven ways from Sunday with the latest budget here is a picture of what most of us can expect to be eating for the foreseeable future. Took this photo at the Youghal Medieval Day last year.

Bye bye rather expensive looking aircraft.

The hard disc in my main PC has failed and I can’t access it at all. This is the second disk to fail in that PC this year and brings my total number of failed disks to four! Incidentially they are all Seagates. Two are PATA and the two that were in my main workstation [...]

Anyone reading my other blog will know the problems that I was having with a PC here. The PC in question is an Optiplex GX 620 and at one stage I considered it to be possessed. Now I really think that it is. (Possessed that is.) It was randomly rebooting on me even if it [...]

Day two of my automotive problems. Bus to Waterford, Train to Kilkenny, near seizure when confronted with the bill. End result is my car is back on the road. The culprit was the shiny new looking bit in the picture below.

Actually it was a little less dramatic than that. Just before the I.T. Carlow campus it appear that the fuel pump in my car gave up the ghost. Engine turns, nothing burns. Ironically about half an hour before the engine stopped working I was looking at the economy gauge and it was showing 44.5mpg. “The [...]