Christmas this year was one big tech breakdown in the Berg home Already in December, the antenna signal deteriorated and DVB-T units got all “pixly”. Colleague Niklas (the antenna guy) helped me out by swapping the aerial for a new one I bought, but the measuring equipment handy was only showing actual signal power and not […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Howdy! I just got upgraded to the VDSL service of my ISP (branded it “TurboDSL”) but now I tried swedish “bredbandskollen” (webbased tool for measuring the access speed of the broadband). The service should offer up to 20-40 Mbit/s downstream and some 10Mbit/s upstream. I reached a measly 8Mbit/s on the downlink. This is total […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It seems I will never be an Ubuntu friend. It has AGAIN crapped on me twice! * My daughters PC is based on an ASUS motherboard, but it seems that the NIC (Network Interface Card) doesn’t work. There are a few more or less complex solutions to it, but it seems no plug and play […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
OK, I fixed my oldest daughters PC broken. A bit of patching and fixing, wherafter the Windows XP installation was f*cked. Mea culpa – noone else to blame … I installed Ubuntu, mainly to recover her files but it seems she finds it acceptable so it might be that we skip the Windows installation altogether. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…