Author Archives: Brian

WordPress Maintenance

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Brian

Recently I upgraded my Worpress installation to the latest release from Fantastico within cPanel on my hosting service. Upgrade worked fine but there was an error when posting new posts because of one of my plugins Role-Scoper. Tried to upgrade … Continue reading →

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Three Mobile Faster Than Home Broadband

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Brian

Sad really, the download speed I can get from my Three mobile is faster than I get on my fixed line broadband. Ho Hum.

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Gordon Brown Just Can’t Resist Spinning

Posted on October 9, 2009 by Brian

I signed up for a petition the other day (as I do). I quite like this system it allows you to blow off straight at the Government. As part of the system you get an email back if Number 10 … Continue reading →

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Clean up Grub and default boot after Ubuntu Upgrade

Posted on September 27, 2009 by Brian

A bug bear of mine is that when you update or upgrade Ubuntu, it leaves all sorts of junk in the Grub menu and screws the default setting. The solution is easy, boot into Ubuntu, open the menu.lst (sudo gedit … Continue reading →

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Acer Aspire Recovery

Posted on September 27, 2009 by Brian

I have been trying to restore an Acer Aspire 5310. The laptop had not had its recovery CD built, would not boot with a registry error and the BIOS had a password that was unknown. Don’t despair you can restore … Continue reading →

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