Installing Ubuntu 8.10 on a USB stick is really handy. That enabled me to remove a trojan from my laptop that I couldn’t remove from Windows itself. There was one drawback; GRUB got stuck on my MBR (Master Boot Record) pointing to the USB stick. So without the stick the machine couldn’t be booted. Forgetting […] ↓ 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…
