Author Archives: Dead1nside

Missing GRUB Splashscreen On Fedora Linux

I recently upgraded from Fedora 11 to Fedora 12 and still encountered this issue which is detailed in this bug report. Basically, when booting up the GRUB splashscreen that asks whether you want to boot the default entry or select … Continue reading

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Fragmentation on the Mobile Web

Every day I see some advert for an iPhone App, usually heralding itself as life changing. What concerns me is that a lot of the time these iPhone applications such as the Empire and Guardian ones, are really only providing … Continue reading

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The Smartphone Operating System War

In between History essays I can’t help but get distracted about technology, and my friend’s dilemma about which smartphone to plump for, now, with a year left on his contract, has made me think. He is very enamoured with the … Continue reading

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Thoughts on the Nokia N900

Looking ahead to the UK launch of the N900 in late October, I wanted to collect my thoughts on the N900 whilst taking into account my previous ruminations on the N810 release, and making comparisons where appropriate (although unfortunately this … Continue reading

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Optimoz Tweaks 0.4 Updated for Firefox 3.6

Optimoz Tweaks no longer appears to work with Firefox 3.6 despite me making my usual alterations. At present I do not have the time nor ability to attempt to fix this, so I do apologise. Download it anyway and give … Continue reading

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Just Some Statistics

During the lifetime of my old website I signed up to Google Analytics which is basically a statistical tool to model visits to your website, amongst other things. I signed up quite late to it, so it doesn’t encompass all … Continue reading

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How to Send Email From a Different Address Using Gmail and Thunderbird

This is a problem that’s been plaguing me for years, literally. I’ll outline the problem in brief. Say you’re using Google’s email service Gmail and you use “plus addressing” (which is basically username+tag@gmail.com) and you also use mailing-lists. The popular … Continue reading

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Welcome

Well I finally have my website working again, and at a new and better domain (Do you like?) Unfortunately, stupidly I forgot to back-up the old MySQL database so if there was any chance of retrieving some of my popular, … Continue reading

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