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Last weekend I went to the Devon and Cornwall Linux User Group meeting in a Computer shop in Penzance (which is why I skipped the Termisoc LOTR marathon) and thanks to Viv I got to see Virtualbox in use. Virtualbox is virtualisation software that lets you run several operating systems on the same computer at [...]

I finally got around to getting myself a better display for my desktop, a 22″ widescreen monitor. It is great, I have loads more usable space on my desk now, mostly due to not having a CRT but also because I moved some of my junk onto my bed so I could take a nice [...]

Before I went on holiday (I will be writing about this sometime, honest) the hard drives in (Sephiroth) my desktop machine decided to die on me, possibly because they were not getting enough power due to be installing a big-ass graphics card (I wanted dual monitor).
So now I am back it is time to take [...]

I’ve finally got my TV card working under Linux and it only took me just over 3 months and several kernel upgrades. I am now running Linux kernel 2.6.15 which I hadn’t even realised was out yet.
Installing things would be a lot easier if the hardware vendors always had ways of uniquely identifying what they [...]

My router broke sometime between 3am and 11am (when I was asleep) this morning. I thought it might have been the plug so I went into Maplin to see fi I could get a new one. It turned out the one the guy reccommended was the same as the one I’d bought in there a [...]

My GP2X arrived today. It is very shiny. I’ve been spending most of the afternoon playing with it. I’ve put a SNES emulator on it and I am currently checking out some of the ROMs I’ve got. I’m thinking of puting The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past on it because I have [...]

I moved the little Dell box onto my desk today. It looks cool and very colour co-ordinated with the rest of my stuff.
The box on the left is Lifestream, it’s my file server, notice the removable hard-drive bays. The case was originally white but I spray painted it, recently I re-did it because of scratches.
The [...]

Heres a photo of the monitor I picked up in the carload of stuff Rich bought from the computer shop.

Unfortunately during testing it emmited a loud BANG!! So I think it’s dead. Oh well, to plan B, make it into a fishtank.

I have finally gotten around to putting the sides of the case back on to my file server. I took them off ages ago and spraypainted them because it had gotten scratched. They have been sitting around in the spare room where my parents were getting increasingly annoyed at them being there.
I have also acquired [...]

I just picked up some old monitors from the guys at the DCLUG. They are way better than the ones that I have at the moment and they were free. The best thing though is that I have been meaning to get a bigger monitor for ages but I haven’t had the money.
I’ve got 2 [...]