Cragnet

Its 4am, I haven't really slept well due to my cold, man flu or whatever you so choose to call it. The strategy of the curry and whiskey only partially worked where I should have gone for the vindaloo. However I concede that it will go in its own time. I was thinking of what to write for my next blog article and I have a few ideas but this week is coming up to a special occasion. As of 29 March I will officially be unemployed for 6 months. Its amazing how quickly the time has flown and to think I have been looking for work for this amount of time. People I have spoken to who also left my last company have found work and some even had two jobs. It is difficult to gauge why I haven't. I have revised my CV which in itself is an ongoing project to try and reflect who am I and what I can do. I even paid someone to make it look professional but with no luck. I have applied for many jobs and had a few interviews where the last one concluded I was technical this time but too se

The PC in my front room was originally a Windows Media Centre ( MCE ) PC from HP. A few years ago I upgraded the RAM to 2 gb and dropped in a dual core processor. Hp insisted the machine could not be upgraded to a dual core and that I needed to purchase a new machine at £1000 plus. However I knew the motherboard would accept the x2 chip but the bios would not. After a bit of reading around I found a way to re-flash the bios, remove the HP fudge and put on the original BIOS upgrade to support dual core. I located a seller and bought the chip for £100. Chip arrived, it was installed and was recognised by the BIOS and then by Windows. Because I had altered my internal hardware I was on the phone late one night to M$ to get a new code to reactivate Windows. I have to admit since moving to Linux that I really am glad that I don't have to do the activation rubbish any more. In principle I can understand why they M$ went down this route but working in the enterprise it was such

I was in Newcastle Under Lyme today and had parked up in preparation for my usual visit to the job centre to sign on. In the car park there was a vehicle that had the colours of a bugatti veyron, a simiar shape to an audi tt but looks like it was sitting on an mgf chasis... Here are the pics of the original vehicles against the pictures I took. Bugatti Veyron Audi TT MGF

I recently had to send my EEE PC (904ha/xp) back to Asus to resolve an issue. Unlike other laptops I have had in the past there seem an issue with this machine in that the battery was never 100% charged. I read online about the issue and they all referred to contacting Asus for a swap out. Although the laptop was on charge for over 48 hours constant, or it is was being used on the mains the led light for the power was always red/orange. On reading the manual it said that this colour indicated the battery was between 80-100% capacity. A solid green indicated 100% capacity. After several emails to Asus it was agreed to send the unit back for repair. I prepped the machine for delivery by backing it up with Ghost as I didn't want to waste three days rebuilding it again. Wiped the hard drive clean and sent it back. Two days later it was returned... The note inside from the engineer said LED lights displaying correctly, no OS on Hard drive so reinstalled OS. This is where my confusio

I was at a friends last night giving their PC a check over - I would call this more akin to a yearly car service. My friend asked the question I usually get - what security protection do you use? Nowadays being a linux user I have AV installed but don't use it in realtime and either use the built in linux firewall or rely on my router's firewall. Due to the lack of linux based malware or viruses I am confident this will keep my machine clear but am still wary what I either download or click on. In time this may change as more people begin to use linux but now it is relatively secure. I mentioned this to my friend but did say on the two windows machines that I have I use freely available products such as Free AVG and spybot. Using these and being wary what is either being downloaded or clicked on are usually sufficient to catch most things. My friend was running McAffee that was bundled with his broadband provider but costs per year. He was quite surprised to find that

You then need to convert your atom feed into an RSS one. I used feedburner then followed the below. http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/creating-rss-feed-for-your-blogspot-blog/

I have just followed this guide to see if I can add my blog updates to face book. http://weblogs.about.com/od/socialnetworking/ht/AddBlogFacebook.htm This is a test to see if it works