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Pointless advert

Pointless advert

By Tom on January 26, 2010

If you can spot what I find annoying about the following screenshot of an advert I keep seeing whilst browsing around, then you are fabulously geeky (like me):

Google is trying to teach me to suck eggs. They obviously know what Operating system I’m using so I thought they would be clever enough to detect what [...]

Posted in Journal | Tagged Annoying, Google, Linux | 2 Responses

Nova-TD-500 Tuning issues

Nova-TD-500 Tuning issues

By Tom on May 11, 2009

I wanted to watch freeview on my PC so I bought a brand new Hauppauge Nova-TD-500 card. Unfortunately I found the picture quality to be exceptionally low – There were significant image artefacts and glitches where everything is fine if I plug the same cable into a normal TV. I tried a whole load of [...]

Posted in Tech Journal | Tagged Configuration, Linux, TV | 4 Responses

Ubuntu 8.10 on Sony VGN-AR51E

By Tom on November 5, 2008

After installing Ubuntu 8.10 on my Sony laptop (VGN-AR51E) this is a list of some of the configurations I’ve made:
Fixes

The web-cam (MotionEye – Ricoh USB r5u870) doesn’t work, I think the driver isn’t in the kernel for Ubuntu 8.10. In fact, /dev/video0 is completely missing (see bug 255678). This is how to fix:

lsusb gives: [...]

Posted in Tech Journal | Tagged computing, Linux | Leave a response

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