Well, still getting on OK with the Dell Mini 9. Upgraded OS-X, upgraded the BIOS from A00 to A05 and re-ran DellEFI … what do you know, no more issues when trying to wake up from sleep mode. Sometimes it just wouldn’t, but others, it did so, but with no mouse pointer anymore… either way, [...]

As those of you who have been reading this site may know I have been looking into netbooks for quite a while now.
After a lengthy period of research (or procrastination…), I had narrowed things down to a couple of possibilities, neither of which I ended up with (figures – ED), and here’s why.
Turns out that there [...]

OK, so I needed to test a Linux distro, why? Because, I am looking into a new shiny net-book, and a few happen to come with Linux… Now there are a lot of flavours out there, so where to begin. Well actually, not such a hard issue, since the ones I have been looking at [...]

I have for many months/years been looking at various methods of making my computing mobile. I don’t mean trying to use a mobile device here, rather using a ‘mobile solution’ to hold all my various files, applications and information, so that I can grab what I need when I need it, wherever I happen to [...]

I have just found and installed and excellent plugin for wordpress that enables the use of mathematical expressions right in a posting (WPMathPub).  

Fancy watching a bit of Betty Boop? Or download some Al Jolson tracks? All for free? Well there is somewhere to download these and .. it’s legal, because everything contined in the Internet Archive is in the Public Domain!