IT Guru and Amateur Photographer
How-To's
Remove and reinstall xserver on Ubuntu 9.10
Jan 16th
Well the time came when my good friend Richard asked for some help with his new monitor/graphics card setup.
Ubuntu had thrown him into low graphics mode. No good for his new 22″ LCD and also no good without 3D acceleration.
This fix takes about 20 seconds but will basically remove X11 from your Ubuntu install, purge the files and reinstall it so you can setup X11 exactly as it does in the installation of Ubuntu.
Chatsworth House
Aug 12th
On Monday me and Chloe went for a visit to Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. The day was fantastic with lots to see and some beautiful gardens…
Whats more it only cost us £10 for tickets to the house and gardens with a special promo code..
This is what you need to do..
Visit Chatsworth before November 09 and get 2 full priced combined house and garden tickets for the price of 1.
Go to www.chatsworth.org and enter the promotional code ‘MovieMap1′ at the checkout when you purchase your tickets on line.
With the code it makes adult tickets £5.20 each.
Adult £5.20
OAP/students £8.55
Child
Aged 4 to 16 inclusive, 3 and under are free £5.65
iGoogle Tabs – left to top
Jul 14th
If Google have changed your iGoogle homepage to have “tabs” on the left, here is how to change it back.
LogMeIn For Ubuntu
Jul 13th
Unfortunately, LogMeIn doesn’t make a linux compatible version of it’s remote home software. The software is an .msi, and therefore can’t be installed using WINE either.
So how can you remote home to your Ubuntu pc?
The answer is Dynamic DNS.
Turtlewax ICE Products
Jun 21st
Well it’s that time of year again… Wash, T-Cut, Polish…
However after doing over 2000 miles in the last month I have given extra special care to my product choice. For years I have used the following:
1. Turtlewax Car Shampoo
2. SafeCut Colour / Scratch Restorer
3. Autoglym Super Resin Polish
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