Archive for the ‘notes’ Category

Compsci Rickroll

This will only be of interest to geeky types… Rickrolling a 1B lecture

It's a bank holiday today

…and it would have been nice if I’d realised this this before going to every Natwest in town, wondering why they were closed in the middle of the day. Ah well…

Desktop PC for sale?

Wireless keyboards and mice really become worth their money when you spill two-thirds of a pint of water over your desk. Unless your name is Fish, of course, but in my case, I was able to lob them out of the way onto my bed, and spend my time worrying instead about creating a levee [...]

Fluxbuntu (cntd)

So, turns out that the downloadable ISO from fluxbuntu.org is broken (MD5 matches, so the problem’s on their end), or else I have three broken CD-burning applications, or two broken CD-burning drives. Occam’s-razorize THAT one. It also turns out that my laptop’s optical drive (or possibly BIOS) is a little iffy – I can’t boot [...]

Fluxbuntu

I’ve just noticed that Fluxbuntu appears to be at a reasonably stable stage now. Methinks it’s time for a reinstall on my laptop… (FYI, I’ve been running a heavily bastardised *buntu-based linux installation on my oldish Dell C640 for some time. I’ve messed around with the packaging way too much to call it Ubuntu or [...]