Archive for August, 2005
Partimage Party
Tuesday, August 30th, 2005I’ve been re-installing Windows today so that I can play Morrowind. Being as installing Windows XP is as pleasant as amputating your own arm with a rusty teaspoon, I’ve created my own restore partition using Knoppix.
The first time I tried to create an image it was a failure, I installed the windows on NTFS and [...]
Backup Now!
Friday, August 26th, 2005I have recently built a file server, it’s called lifestream and it’s got two 120GB HDD using Linux’s software RAID (and another tiny one for the / partition). I suspect that something is causing a plague of bad hard drives, several of the Termisoc servers have had one, the one that was going to be [...]
Router Panic
Wednesday, August 24th, 2005I thought I’d broken my router today, the web interface didn’t show it’s usual “Connected” in the corner and none of the buttons worked. Turns out I disabled JavaScript on Firefox (to test pure css popup tooltips) and the router’s interface requires it.
Shiny desktop
Sunday, August 21st, 2005I’ve just been on one of those redecorating sprees with my KDE desktop downloaded a new theme called Milk. My desktop now looks a lot like a mac’s.
I’ve gotten rid of the taskbar at the bottom and now I have a small centeralised application selector with my favorite apps in it (firefox, thunderbird, sunbird, shell, [...]