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Author Archives: Dougie

Advocacy by not advocating

We have Ubuntu installed on two of the machines at home and recently, after losing a Windows restore disc, I suggested installing Ubuntu 10.04 on her Dell 1545 after my suggestion. As installations go, it was relatively painless – certainly better than reinstalling Windows. Don’t get me wrong, Dell is better than most in this [...]

Aspire One flat battery

I have been away for nearly five months. In that time my Aspire One’s battery has, unsurprisingly, gone totally flat. However it wont charge. This device’s power supply seems to have issues, it has gone through more fuses than any device I’ve had. The battery life is not really good enough for a netbook (mind [...]

Where have I gone…

I haven’t disappeared off the face of the earth but I am overseas for a while. I’ll be updating when I get back.

Blogging platforms

Has anyone else noticed a large amount of ping backs to link farms from Planet Ubuntu feeds over the last few days? I’m getting a fair few. I’d give an example but if I link to a site that takes my posts from a syndicated site and creates posts that are syndicated on other sites [...]

Ubuntu spot the difference

After writing documentation for many years, once in a while I come across a post on the Internet that makes me wonder why I bother. So I thought we could turn it into a game. Basically it’s like spot the difference, see how many things you can spot that are wrong with it and post [...]