I did some upgrades of what seemed like a million packages today on my Debian sid computer. I was doing this remotely and when I tried to ssh back in I got kicked out after entering my password, hmmm. OK, so I waited until I could get in front of it and tried to login…
Like a lot of people, I have one of those set-top TV boxes that can record TV shows at set times. I made sure that I could get at the files (using a FTP server in this case) and that the files were some sort of common standard (MPEG 4 TS). I also have a…
It was time to update my creaking old laptop. I ordered HP6-6023TX online and after a few days it arrived just before a long weekend. I first backed up Windows 7 onto a set of DVDs and found that either my blank DVDs are old or this new DVD drive is far more fussy. There…