Author Archives: Brian

New Hosting provider and WordPress Maintenance

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Brian

An invoice to renew my Web Hosting and the need to update WordPress resulted in a bit of work. I had been with Hostingbegins for a number of years as my hosting provider, but they have recently been bought out … Continue reading →

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Mount a network folder automatically in Ubuntu

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Brian

One of the frustrations with Ubuntu, has been that there is no easy way to replicate the Windows function ‘map network drive’. The best I have found is this thread. I still find it very slow to find the network … Continue reading →

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Acer Revo 3610 Ubuntu and HDMI

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Brian

Decided to get my Acer Revo 3610 connected to my nice new Sony TV. From reading on the web, it was clear that the Nvidia Ion graphics were more than capable of producing a good picture via the HDMI port. … Continue reading →

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More Ubuntu Lucid IPv6 problems – solved

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Brian

I have solved another IPv6 problems on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04. When trying to install a package (apt, aptitude or synaptic) wget has these symptoms; –2010-05-21 20:05:55– http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/webdin32.exe Resolving internap.dl.sourceforge.net… 1.0.0.0 Connecting to internap.dl.sourceforge.net|1.0.0.0|:80… failed: Connection timed out. Giving up. This … Continue reading →

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Firefox lost and missing bookmarks toolbar

Posted on May 7, 2010 by Brian

I use the FEBE extension to ‘clone’ my Firefox setup whenever I get a new system. Having installed Ubuntu Lucid I needed my firefox setup on it. Having backed up off one, I restored to the new. This was easier … Continue reading →

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