Archive for the 'Computers' Category

Cleaned the Windows considering the Vista

November 13, 2007

Well I have finally got round to doing a clean re-install [3rd] of windows on a new larger harddrive. in fact I’ve just about made the computer ready for Vista. (side effect)
I am in fact considering moving to Vista probably when Service Pack 1 is released or maybe sooner.
I got around to writing a batch [...]

Linux Video

August 31, 2007

Well I finally have video multimedia capability now on Linux.
Turns Out VLC works with my various media.
It may not have the most intuitve interface when navigating with DVD’s but it can play them and you can move through them

TUX DVD

August 8, 2007

OK I’ve Almost got DVD Playback on my Linux half. I say almost as I can play DVD chapters (big improvement) however I cannot yet navigate simply through the DVD. (select chapters or have it play sequentially through chapters
That might be because of the players [Totem and VLC]
I’ll need to look into some other DVD [...]

Penguin Enclosure Rebuilt

February 25, 2007

OK I’ve Rebuilt my Linux/Win XP Computer. I’ve Also Isolated them to seperate Drives and It’s showing some great potential.
I’m hoping to start using Linux a lot more

Rebulding the Peguin Enclosure

January 26, 2007

Over Christmas my machine suffered a catastophe. A bit earlier then I whould have liked but it meant that I could then place my Linux system on a completely seperate hard drive.

Breeding Penguins

September 6, 2006

For the last little while [18 months] I’ve been sporadically using various distros of Linux. These Include
Ubuntu

5.10 Breezy Badger
5.04 Hoary Hedgehog
4.10 Warty Warthog

Fedora Core

Fedora Core 5
Fedora Core 3
Fedora Core 2

I have a recently obtained SUSE 10.1 and Feel like using it on a more regular basis Than I’ve managed with some of the others. [...]

Ubuntu,Ubuntu,Ubuntu

March 18, 2006

As I was browsing the newsagent’s the other day I noticed 2 or 3 Linux magizines with Ubuntu 5.10 ‘Breezy Badger’. I’m only Commenting on it really because one of the Mags was Linux Format which is from the UK (January 2006) Issue but I got Ubuntu 5.10 from the Linux Format (Christmas 2005) which [...]