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Jul/09

Current Cost CC128 Envi Review

Filed Under Hardware, Houseware at 9th July 2009 0:01 by

Overview A home automation article popped up in my RSS feed and lead me to this cool device. It’s a combination of a display and sensor which allows you to monitor and track the amount of electricity is being used … Continue reading →

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Jul/09

My Alternative Free Software On Windows

Filed Under Software at 6th July 2009 0:01 by

Overview Here are my picks for free software on Windows (currently Windows 7). Free and open source (two different licenses applied to software) have come a long way and have come to replace my ageing proprietary and non-free applications. I … Continue reading →

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Jul/09

Asus P5N32 SLI-Deluxe 4GB RAM

Filed Under Hardware at 3rd July 2009 0:00 by

I upgraded my RAM from 2GB (4x512mb) to 4GB (2x2GB). It worked flawlessly and I turned on “Memory Remap” because I was using Windows 7 64 bit. The only issue I had was the water cooling pipes got in the … Continue reading →

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Jul/09

Epson Stylus SX600FW Review

Filed Under Hardware, Review at 1st July 2009 0:01 by

Overview I recently bought a new printer and wanted an all in one unit as well as a cross platform compatibility. I’m bias towards Epson printers which I have had in the past and have had good experience with them. … Continue reading →

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Jun/09

Mozilla Firefox & Thunderbird Spell Checker

Filed Under Web Browser at 26th June 2009 0:01 by

Since version 3 of Firefox it has had a built in spell checker. This is handy if say you use your browser to write blogs or posts online for example. The problem is when you download the browser it doesn’t … Continue reading →

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Jun/09

Replace /dev/xxx With UUID

Filed Under Linux at 23rd June 2009 0:01 by

Overview My recent (re)build of my old Intel Pentium 4 system to run in my Linux system has a slight problem with jumping drive points e.g one minute my /home drive on /dev/sdb1 suddent goes to /dev/sda1 after a reboot … Continue reading →

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Jun/09

Stop Services / Daemons Starting Up In Ubuntu

Filed Under Linux at 15th June 2009 0:01 by

To remove daemons from starting up on boot use the following command: sudo update-rc.d servicename remove where servicename is the name of the service. To add the service to start up: sudo update-rc.d servicename defaults To see all your services … Continue reading →

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Jun/09

Linux Terminal Not Auto-completing

Filed Under Linux at 12th June 2009 20:51 by

in the terminal is one of the most useful features in command line. Both DOS and Linux support autocomplete with the key . This is when you type part of the command or file name and press tab to complete … Continue reading →