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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
I have a measly failed attempt to run a HTPC on Linux in my history. MythTV on top of Ubuntu is packaged nicely in the shape of Mythbuntu (unexpected and innovative naming Installing it was fine, and configuring it was also fine. There was only ONE small problem – the TV card didn’t work! Twinhan [...]
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