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Apr/10

Halifax New Home Welcome Pack

I was very shocked when Halifax sent us a welcoming pack. It’s these little things that makes me glad I bank with them. Can’t wait to move my some accounts from Santander to Halifax too.

01

Apr/10

Graph Annotation And Settings Features

Mark’s use of energy@home highlights a need for annotation function but before getting to that stage I want to customize the way historical data is retrieved. Currently it only shows pre-set number of settings but I face a UI challenge … Continue reading

26

Mar/10

Megabit To Gigabit Network

Overview I have finally made the switch to Gigabit networking! Thanks to an Amazon deal I bought some switches to kit my network out. Because I do move large files about such as video files as well as streaming from … Continue reading

21

Mar/10

144 Bug

I have been in contact with Mark on my energy@home project and found Mark’s website which led me to a disappointing discovery – bug in the CurrentCost device. Whilst it has not affected me yet it is somewhat disconcerning that … Continue reading

10

Mar/10

Dropbox Causes Duplicate Folders In Mozilla Thunderbird

Overview I have been busy migrating from Windows 7 RC to full retail version of Windows 7. It has taken over 1.5 full days (which includes half a day formatting a brand new 1TB hard drive). During the course of … Continue reading

01

Mar/10

PDF Printer In Ubuntu

It is really simple to add a PDF printer in Ubuntu 9.10. A PDF printer prints a page and writes to a file in PDF format. To install this feature typer in the terminal: sudo apt-get install cups-pdf That’s it. … Continue reading

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Feb/10

Separate User & Windows Directory On Different Drives

Overview I wanted to have the Windows partition and the user partition on separate drives. I have done this in the past on a Linux computer and it was very painless. The advantage to this setup is that most of … Continue reading

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Feb/10

Header Image 14

Digitally round object now in the rotation queue.