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Airports

Sitting in departures at Belfast City airport (I refuse to refer to it by it’s daft new name) and I am reminded of the kicking that Heathrow, Gatwick and others got in the press when they could not stay open … Continue reading

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Brrrrrrrrr was a bit frosty this morning…

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Cooking Parsnip and Pecan Cake: The Linux Distro Guide

From a conversation on #staffslug We start of with a recipe for fantastic cake : http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/12983/catherine-marshalls-parsnip-and-maple-syrup-cake We then see how given this recipe or source different distros would approach cooking it based on past experiences. Please note this is humour … Continue reading

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K3B Adding MP3 Files

On ubuntu : sudo apt-get install libk3b2-extracodecs Many thanks to http://linuxappfinder.com/blog/howto_enable_mp3_support_for_k3b

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SugarCRM ZuckerReports Encoded Settings

I love the reports we get out of SugarCRM now but ZuckerReports sometimes does things that throw me off for a while and then make me kick myself when I understand them later. Today’s case in point I needed to … Continue reading

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UPDATED! G1 home, call button not working and lock not working FIXED WITHOUT RESET!

Hurrah,   this is a problem I have come across on my G1 a few times usually after the phone has powered off due the battery running out and each time I have had to hard reset to fix   but … Continue reading

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ADW.Launcher Crash!

ADW.Launcher is a wonderful application that replaces the home screen on Android and for us poor G1 owners, adds loads of features found in later versions of Android This morning I turned my phone on and nothing, black blank screen, … Continue reading

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BackupExec RALUS Woes

This had me tearing my hair out…. Jobs on some OpenSuSE machines were failing with : Job ended: 14 June 2010 at 14:31:02 Completed status: Failed Final error: 0xe00084af – The directory or file was not found, or could not … Continue reading

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Scotland Canoe Trip

I have put all the Scottish canoe trip up over on http://crocodil.es blog / site Photos and GPS stuff still to be uploaded as well as a write up of the trip!

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Outlook default reminders, 18 hour madness

Microsoft in their infinite wisdom have two defaults for reminders on meeting requests, one is for appointments and one for all day events. The option in Tools -> Options is for appointments/meetings only and the defaults for all day events … Continue reading

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