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Nokia, Microsoft and Windows Phone
Stephen Elop, CEO of Nokia, has now famously been quoted for his “burning platform” memo, but with today’s announcement that Nokia will be taking up Windows Phone 7 as its leading smartphone operating system, what we are seeing is the … Continue reading
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Tagged Android, ballmer, capital, day, developers, elop, foundation, Google, Intel, Linux, markets, meego, microsoft, microsoft windows phone 7, N8, N9, Nokia, ovi, stephen elop, steve ballmer, Symbian, windows phone, windows phone 7, wp, wp7, wp8
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How to install tp_smapi and change battery charging thresholds on Fedora 14
In this article I will explain what battery charging thresholds are, and if you’re using a Thinkpad, how to install the tp_smapi kernel module (kmod), have it run at boot time, and automatically rebuild itself when you update kernel versions. … Continue reading
Posted in Free and Open Source, Guide, Technology
Tagged akmod, automatic kernel module, battery, charging, Fedora, fedora 14, IBM, kernel, kernel module, kmod, laptop, Lenovo, Linux, module, smapi, Thinkpad, thinkwiki, thresholds, tp, tpsmapi, tp_smapi
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And, I’m back.
Hello everyone. My personal website has been in a completely dysfunctional state for some time now, I hope to have solved that now. I’ve moved over to a new host Tsohost.co.uk and tried to restore as much of my WordPress … Continue reading
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Using the OpenJDK Java Plugin With Firefox 3.6
You may have had problems with running the ‘open’ version of Java, OpenJDK, with Firefox 3.6 . Up until recently there was no ‘open’ solution for this, and one had to resort to using Sun’s Java. If you would like … Continue reading
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Tagged about:plugins, Fedora, Fedora 12, Fedora 13, firefox, Firefox 3.6, forum, iced, IcedTea, icedteaplugin.so, Java, libjavaplugins.so, mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 3.6, NPPlugin, open, OpenJDK, Sun, Sun Java, tea
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Missing or Corrupted Textures on Linux, with Intel Integrated Graphics
If you run Linux and are using the open source Intel graphics drivers, for their integrated graphics processors, have you noticed garbled / missing or white / corrupt textures? Do things just not look right, with the textures? This issue … Continue reading
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Tagged ATI, broken, cannot, cannot see, compression, corrupt, display, driconf, driver, Fedora, games, GM45, graphics, graphics driver, integrated, Intel, Intel graphics, Intel integrated graphics, Linux, mesa-libGL-devel, missing, no, problem, see, Spring RTS, texture, textures, white, xorg-x11-drv-intel
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Opinions on The First Prime Ministerial TV Debate
I think it’s quite funny and strange that all the political analysts and journalists are suddenly surprised that Nick Clegg apparently won, both in their opinions and evidenced in the immediate polling. I think there’s a connection there. Nobody appeared … Continue reading
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Tagged #leadersdebate, 2010, argue, attack, Brown, Cameron, campaign, Clegg, Con, David Cameron, debate, Economy, election, election 2010, facebook, first, General, general election, general election 2010, Gordon Brown, historic, Labour, Lib Dem, Lib Dems, Liberal Democrats, minister, negative, new, Nick Clegg, old, policies, policy, Politics, poll, prime, prime minister, prime ministerial, prime ministerial debate, televised debate, television, twitter, values
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Recent Website / WordPress Problems
I apologise for the prolonged absence of any updates here, I’ve really had a lot of content that I’ve wanted to put out. However for some strange reason, shortly after upgrading to WordPress 2.9.2 (using the automatic upgrade feature) something … Continue reading
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Tagged 2.9.2, automatic upgrade, blank, blank screen, changelog, problems, screen, update, upgrade, website, wordpress
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Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Linux Review
I have just updated to the recently released version of Firefox, Firefox 3.6, I’m still running Fedora 12 and at present it is not available in the official Fedora 12 repositories. If you want to try it out you need … Continue reading
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Tagged 3.6, add on, addons, compatibility, extension, Fedora, Fedora 11, Fedora 12, firefox, Firefox 3.6, Linux, mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 3.5, Mozilla Firefox 3.6, Red Hat, Review
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Lenovo Thinkpad T400 14” Review
I have owned my Thinkpad T400 for a sufficiently long period of time to be able to give my overall view of the machine now. I have had a couple of Thinkpads in the past a T41p and a T61, … Continue reading
NetworkManager PPTP VPN Connection Fails
My university uses PPTP for its VPN, luckily GNOME’s NetworkManager has a PPTP plugin available for it called ‘NetworkManager-pptp’ but despite entering the correct settings, username and password it used to try to connect and always fail. After much searching … Continue reading
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Tagged aborts, connection, error, fails, GNOME, Manager, Network, NetworkManager, plugin, PPTP, private, virtual, VPN, wifi, wireless
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