grubbier

June 30th, 2008 by fnx

About time I wrote up a little of what I discovered while I was trying to fix grub when I replaced my MythTV boot drive. Read the rest of this entry »

0wned no more

May 3rd, 2008 by fnx

Well, I've pretty much discovered what was going on with my box being hacked, and I'm fairly happy I've cleaned out the ‘infection’.

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0wned

May 2nd, 2008 by fnx

Gack!  My home PC got cracked earlier in the week!

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White dog shit

April 30th, 2008 by fnx

I've had a number of minor conversations over the years that pondered the disappearance of the crumbly piles of white doggy poo that people of a certain age, myself included, swear were common place in the 70s and early 80s.

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grub

April 27th, 2008 by fnx

I've been trying to replace my current 2 hard drives in my MythTV PVR with a single new one, but have suffered major grief getting the thing to boot.

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No sound in Firefox Flash plugin

April 26th, 2008 by fnx

I'm pretty certain that I had this after upgrading my main PC to Fedora 8, but I hit it again this weekend on my laptop: no sound playing flash videos in Firefox.

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Beep

April 7th, 2008 by fnx

I treated myself to some extra RAM for my main PC back in January, and it's been a bit of a tale of woe.

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Firefox 3

April 4th, 2008 by fnx

Firefox is great; I'm a committed fan. (Those who know me know I've written one plug-in [URL Link], and sort-of maintain another [Neo Diggler]).

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ScribeFire

April 3rd, 2008 by fnx

This Firefox add-on looks like it could be quite useful, especially when I come to post an entry that's most plagiarise someone else's page :-)
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Daylight Savings Time

April 2nd, 2008 by fnx

Rant mode on:  today, I am mostly being irritated by the recent change from GMT to BST.

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