Thunderbird failing to update extensions

July 3rd, 2009 by fnx

So for a while I've been getting “An error occurred while trying to find updates for xxx” when looking for Thunderbird extension updates.  A bit of a Google has shown me the fix, so I thought I'd share.

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Cinema listings via MythTV

August 31st, 2008 by fnx

The current MythTV has a “movies” section on the information centre that reports cinema times for local cinemas. Read the rest of this entry »

Tr2n

August 2nd, 2008 by fnx

Nuff said! Read the rest of this entry »

Custom MediaWiki functions

July 30th, 2008 by fnx

I run a wiki at work, and have done for a few year, but it's only recently I've started getting down and dirty with customisation. Read the rest of this entry »

grubbier

June 30th, 2008 by fnx

About time I wrote up a little of what I discovered while I was trying to fix grub when I replaced my MythTV boot drive. Read the rest of this entry »

0wned no more

May 3rd, 2008 by fnx

Well, I've pretty much discovered what was going on with my box being hacked, and I'm fairly happy I've cleaned out the ‘infection’.

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0wned

May 2nd, 2008 by fnx

Gack!  My home PC got cracked earlier in the week!

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White dog shit

April 30th, 2008 by fnx

I've had a number of minor conversations over the years that pondered the disappearance of the crumbly piles of white doggy poo that people of a certain age, myself included, swear were common place in the 70s and early 80s.

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grub

April 27th, 2008 by fnx

I've been trying to replace my current 2 hard drives in my MythTV PVR with a single new one, but have suffered major grief getting the thing to boot.

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No sound in Firefox Flash plugin

April 26th, 2008 by fnx

I'm pretty certain that I had this after upgrading my main PC to Fedora 8, but I hit it again this weekend on my laptop: no sound playing flash videos in Firefox.

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