Timeout waiting for PADO packets
Last Friday, at 22:50, our broadband dropped out.
Category: Tech
Replacing my Asus Zenbook UX21A battery
(This review was originally posted to Amazon as my review of the Green Cell C23-UX21 replacement battery was rejected by Amazon. Possibly because I used the...
Problems with streaming flash on Opera/Linux/Ubuntu - SOLVED
I tried to stream the excellent Porthcawl RNLI live stream from my ubuntu laptop and encountered the error message:
LibreOffice 5.3.3 and embedded documents
As our lab is entirely Ubuntu/Linux (with a smattering of windows machines for hardware where there is no Linux alternative), one of my bugbears is going to ...
How to switch screens (to external monitor) from USB keyboard.
At work I use a Lenovo X220 and the lenovo docking station, with a Samsung monitor, and USB mouse & keyboard. When I dock the laptop I then need to pres...
Blog posts with rmarkdown on Jekyll with servr and knitr
So I’m trying to set up my jekyll system to allow me to edit rmarkdown files and insert them into the jekyll system.
Welcome to the new jekyll-based blog
This is a new version of the blog on Digital Ocean. I took the opportunity to move the top level site across at the same time. It uses Jekyll and the Minim...
Installing a Connects2 USB Interface CTARNUSB003 in a Renault Clio
Having recently bought an 07 plated Renault Clio, I wanted to install an Aux cable to connect our mp3 players (all non-apple).
43 folders for Gmail
In a previous post I explained how I set up a 43 folders type of system using the emacs mail program mh-e and a bunch of UNIX/Linux shell scripts and cronta...
[SOLVED] Blank screen and noisy fan with ATI Radeon HD 5000 series under Natty (Ubuntu 11.04)
Today I upgraded 3 machines to Natty. Two of them have ATI Radeon 5000 series graphics card, and after the upgrade on both, the reboot came up as a totally b...
SOLVED: installing ies4linux under Maverick
Installing ies4linux on Ubuntu Maverick, using this command:
HP Pavilion dm3 wifi card stopped working - SOLVED
Today my HP Pavilion DM3 running Ubuntu 10.10 lost internet connectivity. It soon became clear that the system didn’t even think I had wifi capability as the...
Backup script for ToodleDo
backing up toodledo under linux (note - no longer works)
RSA Animate - Drive
Brilliant and fascinating 10 minute youtube video Not heard of Daniel Pink before but very interesting discourse on motivation.
Problems with switching from googlemail to gmail on HTC Desire
problems with switching googlemail to gmail
Fixing zotero with OpenOffice
Getting zotero running with openoffice under Linux
org-mode, GTD, and the advantages of merged lists (i.e., context)
the advantage of context conferred by merged action/project lists in org-mode
nmh - very slow scanning folders
I started having problems within MH-E recently - folder completion was taking a very long time - between 1-2 minutes!
HOWTO: how to fix problem with lyx 1.5.3 crashing with Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS
I have been having regular crashes with lyx under my Hardy Heron install.
GTD b..y with emacs org-mode
An org-mode slant on Kelly Forrister’s b..y concept.
mh-e article referenced on GTD times
Oliver Starr over at GTD Times has posted about my mh-e article. ‘Cool beans’ as my brother would say!
using mh-e under GTD
Introduction
Canon ip4500 under Ubuntu 7.10
My old epson 760 stylus kept crashing so I bit the bullet and went for a Canon ip4500 printer.
upgrading topfield PVR firmware from Ubuntu/Gutsy (HOWTO)
This is a short HOWTO on upgrading the Toppy firmware from Ubuntu 7.10
making 3-up handouts from beamer presentations
I use the latex package ‘beamer’ (with lyx) to create presentations for various talks etc.
Dell Inspiron 6400 and Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
This post records my (pretty positive) experiences installing Ubuntu Feisty Fawn on a Dell Inspiron 6400.
org-mode support
Just a quick thanks to Carsten Dominik, the author of org-mode, for his amazing support. I upgraded to one of the latest versions of org-mode last night (4.0...
first version of org-na
I have written a short perl program which prints out a list of org-mode tags (which I use for next actions as per GTD).
Backing up One Big Text file
Auto backing up org-mode and diary files under linux to gmail
Upgrading Zaurus to OpenZaurus 3.5.3
Installing OpenZaurus 3.5.3
New Hipster PDA Templates
Further to the mass adulation I received from my music manuscript template (OK- 6 comments …. but they are funny), I decided to make some more customised tem...
Guardian article on David Allen
The Guardian (UK) has an article about David Allen. If you have read the GTD books it’s not new, but good to see him getting this level of publicity.
moving to emacs org-mode
moving to emace org-mode from a PDA-based system
emacs org mode - what have I been missing !
How emacs org-mode was a revelation in my GTD workflow