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Archive for November, 2008

Ubuntu on the Eeee battery life

Icon Written by tig on November 12, 2008 – 1:17 pm

Well the battery monitor app either needs housetraining or something as it bounces up and down more than I do
10 mins ago it told me I had 6 mins remaining and now it has crept back up again
Currently :
tigger@eee:~$ uptime
12:13:00 up 2:39, 2 users, load average: 0.66, 0.50, [...]



Lastminute copyrighting a colour?

Icon Written by tig on November 12, 2008 – 1:11 pm

I am not a lawyer but I would have thought that you could only trademark something in reference to a particular aspect of your business. The lastminute website though currently reads :
lastminute.com”, “lastminute” and the colour (block of magenta) colour are all trademarks owned by Last Minute Network Limited and/or its group companies.
Erm [...]



Silly Ibex wont start X

Icon Written by tig on November 9, 2008 – 11:27 am

Meh my Eeee had just decided that it did not want to start X due to an internal error. A most odd occurrence and after a bit of digging I found the culprit, a read only file system.
It seems my disk had a couple of errors on it and thus [...]



Intrepid Ibex on the Eee701

Icon Written by tig on November 3, 2008 – 3:41 pm

Despite being quite happy with the default install of Xandros on my Eee701 that I have been using for nearly a year now I have taken the plunge and installed Ubuntu on it, partly to standardise (all my other desktop role machines are running Ubuntu) and also because there were a few features I missed [...]