Better late than never, this post has sat in draft for a nearly three months. I had a laptop running Ubuntu acting as a proxy server to filter all the kids’ internet traffic and decided back in February that it … Continue reading
My DVD recorder that I have had for about 3 and a half years has been causing us a few problems when recording Freeview channels. We were getting breakthrough on the audio from the cable connection on the other Scart … Continue reading
Over Christmas, the main hard disc on our 5.5 year old Dell mini tower failed, causing us to replace the computer with a new one. We could have replaced the disc, but we had had other components in it fail … Continue reading
I signed up with Skype a few months ago to give me another VoIP telephony option. Skype to Skype calls are free, so it seemed worth setting up. I originally got myself a Bluetooth headset. Initially, I had problems connecting … Continue reading
The Netgear FVS124G router has settings to allow it to pick up the time from NTP (Network Time Protocol) servers. I initally set this to my local NTP server with a backup on an online one. However, there is no … Continue reading
Tim at The Inflatable Soapbox blind sided me this with this post and tag on Tuesday night. I wasn’t able to reply on Tuesday as I was replacing a failing hard disc and reinstalling Windows XP on a laptop for … Continue reading
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