Archive for the 'Computers' Category
Upgrade to Suse 10.1
I just can’t help myself. I enjoy having the latest software, and when I saw the latest Suse update, I just had to have it. It’s like a craving when your pregnant, you can’t settle until you’ve eating that weird combination of foods.
Anyway, I’m about to update my computer to OpenSuse 10.1. […]
Posted by: Scribe on Saturday, 19 Aug 2006
Password Protecting a Website Folder
This was on Layman’s Place, my computer blog. Since I’m planning to close the blog down, I’ll be moving a few important links over to here, in case I need them later. This is one of them.
You may have a reason to password protect a folder on your website. This means that whilst […]
Posted by: Scribe on Monday, 7 Aug 2006
ClichéCleaner
This has been recommended to me by a couple of people now, so I think it’s only fitting that I share a link with you.
To quote what they say on the web page:
“ClichéCleaner is a program that helps you write better, by highlighting passages in your text that are either clichés, other overly-used common expressions, […]
Posted by: Scribe on Saturday, 3 Dec 2005
Backup Your Files
It goes without saying that all your files, especially your writing files, should be backed up regularly because, well, they are just too valuable to risk losing.
So…without doing anything else, go and do a backup now.
With the invention of flash cards, backups are quick and easy. They can, and should, be done whenever you […]
Posted by: Scribe on Friday, 7 Oct 2005
Kubuntu
Don’t worry, I’m not going to go on and on about Linux again, but today I changed my distribution to Kubuntu. The first time I tried it (in May) there were a lot of bugs which turned me away from it but when I noticed a new version (5.10) being previewed, I had to […]
Posted by: Scribe on Saturday, 24 Sep 2005
Dare I say…
…anything more about computers?
I added a new category called “computers” and when I went back through my previous posts I discovered that I talk about computer almost as much as I do writing. Weird!
Anyway, this will be the last computer post for a while. Everything is working fine […]
Posted by: Scribe on Wednesday, 13 Jul 2005
The Light
I don’t want to say it too loudly because I don’t want to jinx myself, but I see the light and I think my computer problems have been resolved.
The internet is a dodgy place and, although I’m not 100% certain, it looks like a virus of some sort wiped or corrupted my drivers and generally […]
Posted by: Scribe on Wednesday, 13 Jul 2005
From the Black Hole
In case anyone is wondering, I’m still around.
My computer problems cut me off from the world for a while. I know I said everything was fixed after the installation of Beatrix, but that wasn’t entirely true.
Beatrix didn’t suit me because I really don’t like Gnome, so I moved on. […]
Posted by: Scribe on Monday, 11 Jul 2005
The Problem with Computers
The thing about computers is that we can’t live without them.
Well, we know that’s not entirely true on an individual basis because if we didn’t have a computer we wouldn’t die…no, we wouldn’t. We’d experience some terrible withdrawal symptoms but we’d move on eventually.
However, on a global scale life would be much […]
Posted by: Scribe on Thursday, 7 Jul 2005
Computer Woes
On Sunday, I was sitting in front of my computer and everything was fine. Suddenly I watched this wave type thing go across my monitor and I knew that it meant trouble. Then, I clicked on something and that was the end of visual contact with the computer world.
After a reboot, I was […]
Posted by: Scribe on Tuesday, 5 Jul 2005