where an English Dane rambles

Category TECHNOLOGY

New PC

Well I build my first PC in 20+ years today. Feck me what a change to my dying laptop. The last two or so years I have become used to: Hit power (the last few months I had to do… Continue Reading →

Sound

Fettled a laptop sound, for some reason it stopped muting the speakers when mini jack was plugged in. Might be because Peli was sure it was gagging for a cuppa,two days after she got the laptop. So I had to… Continue Reading →

Pretty Good Privacy, anyone?

Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once. Do any of you lot ever use PGP? I for one don’t have or write anything worth hiding behind PGP. I can only think about one maybe two people, that I… Continue Reading →

New Gmail update

I’m not sure how I feel about the new Gmail update both on Android and in browser. Read their blog post about it here – A new inbox that puts you back in control. First what I like about the… Continue Reading →

wordpress and Gallery3 and .htaccess

I run wordpress.com on my various blogs and on www.woollypigs.com/galleries I run Gallery3 to show my photos from our travels. For some reason the bog standard set up of these two don’t seem to like each other on my host…. Continue Reading →

Gmail vs google+

Hmm I noticed last night that in my Gmail I had a new label(folder) called circle. Which at first I was sure was just a short cut to my various circles. Only today I tried to click on it to… Continue Reading →

The Fourty Legs

Way back when in 1984-86 I was learning this new thing called computers. We had these lovely machines called Piccolo and later upgraded the Piccoline, green screen and big clunky keyboards. NAME RC759 Piccoline MANUFACTURER Regnecentralen TYPE Professional Computer ORIGIN… Continue Reading →

e-addressbook-factory

Hmm ever since I installed Ubuntu 11.11 on my Dell 13 laptop, this thing has popped up in my running processes, e-addressbook-factory. Which from what I understand is linked to Evolution, which I do not use, so why does it… Continue Reading →

lubuntu 11.04 on HP Mini 110-3500

I tried to run ubuntu 11.10 on our little HP Mini 110-3500, the GUI and Unity is clearly made for a bigger screen and didn’t really fly along. Probably because it only had 1Gb RAM to play with, even with… Continue Reading →

Ubuntu 11.10 power manager

11.10 power manager is a bit broken I think. My laptop had a fully charged battery, I then pulled out the power cord and Ubuntu told me that the battery is critical low and turned off the laptop. I could… Continue Reading →

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