StooJ on November 10th, 2009

Although I’ve been lucky enough to land a “mainly Linux” job, I do still occasionally cross paths with Windows machines.
Unfortunately, this time around I have hit a problem that I cannot solve. So, it’s off to google[1] to find a solution.
First Technet to read the documentation. There is a vast amount of documentation there, but [...]

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StooJ on October 7th, 2009

I was messing around with my network settings yesterday in order to talk to a piece of medical equipment but when I came into work this morning, network manager had stopped managing the network adaptor.
There was a network manager update for Karmic yesterday that might have caused this, but it was probably me messing about.
The [...]

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StooJ on August 1st, 2009

“Hi Stewart. I’ve set up a machine for you with XP and SP3, but I didn’t do much else with it. I figured that you’d just want to wipe that and stick Ubuntu on instead.”
Yes, that’ll do nicely.

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