Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category

grubbier

Monday, June 30th, 2008

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. (more...)

0wned no more

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

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

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

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

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grub

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

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

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

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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Beep

Monday, April 7th, 2008

I treated myself to some extra RAM for my main PC back in January, and it's been a bit of a tale of woe.

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Firefox 3

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Firefox is great; I'm a committed fan. (Those who know me know I've written one plug-in [URL Link], and sort-of maintain another [Neo Diggler]).

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ScribeFire

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

This Firefox add-on looks like it could be quite useful, especially when I come to post an entry that's most plagiarise someone else's page :-)
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