Category Archives: News
LMDE
Just had a play with the Linux Mint Debian Edition Beta – it’s all looking good although I was only playing as it was on a VM using VirtualBox. Great for seeing the new build but a little bit of … Continue reading
vandalising the mouse
I have just vandalised my mouse! It has multiple buttons including a wheel mouse button – you can press down on the wheel and it will click! only one real problem it’s not a function I use but…. the wheel … Continue reading
Window 10 Update Loop
just had the dreaded – start update – this update requires a restart – the update was unsuccessful removing update – update available installing update loop on windows 10 version 1909 … I started with removing the update to revert … Continue reading
Feeling silly
When you waste half a day messing around on 3 way OS pc’s to find out that s5 power management may indeed be the best on a pc… but it disables wake on lan … and more importantly it removes … Continue reading
When to Disappear
When to Disappear? Well we have a few minor script issues on our server! we’re still short of a total resolution although we are 99% back up. We may however disappear occasionally as our catch-all script isn’t working at present … Continue reading
Air Line Issues
When you go to use the compressor to remove dust from your PC and it hisses before you press the blower! Time to investigate the cylinder is way too small and the pump also too small to waste air – … Continue reading
What is too cheap?
Just bought a webcam for a little self-initiated project on Linux – setting up Motion its free CCTV command line offering… A little deep delving of knowledge and a lot of text editing and the free software is remarkably useful. … Continue reading
what is slow
Well I just decided to “lab” up an “opnsense” router…. in typical cheap fashion this landed up being an HP 6000 Pro small form factor with a dual gigabit “reclaim” card (£8 on ebay). Well the software on a Intel … Continue reading
3 days on driver issue
Well I guess the title spells it all out… 3 days on driver issue! The thought was simple – a USB wifi adapter just for when I may either want two network ports (playing with router box software) or I … Continue reading
iPhone nightmare
Just had a notification on ios update…. 3 hours later and the phones back working! I think between three versions of iTunes and two different ios restores over multiple attempts I’m done! Hey it is working so I guess that’s … Continue reading