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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
Posted in Free and Open Source, Guide
Tagged 11, 12, back, background, boot, boot-loader, bootloader, corrupted, Fedora, Fedora 11, Fedora 12, ground, GRUB, Linux, loader, missing, screen, shortened, splash, splashscreen, verbose
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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
Posted in Technology
Tagged App Store, Apple, applet, application, empire, Empire Magazine, film, Guardian, guardian newspaper, iPhone, magazine, mobile, mobile web, Newspaper, Nokia, open, QT, standards, web, web standards, WRT
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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
Posted in Free and Open Source, Technology
Tagged 5800, 5th edition, Android, Apple, Google, Hero, HTC, iPhone OS, Maemo, N900, N97, Nokia, Palm, Palm Pre, phone, pre, smart, Smartphone, Symbian, Symbian OS 9.4 5th Edition, WebOS, Windows Mobile, XpressMusic
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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
Posted in Technology
Tagged 770, handset, Internet, Internet Tablet, Linux, Maemo, Maemo 5, mobile, n, n series, N800, N810, N900, N97, Nokia, Nokia N800, Nokia N810, Nokia N900, Nokia N97, phone, series, Tablet
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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
Posted in Free and Open Source, Technology
Tagged 3, 3.6, 6, add, add on, add ons, extension, firefox, Firefox 3, Firefox 3.5, Firefox 3.6, fixed, mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 3.5, Mozilla Firefox 3.6, on, Optimoz, Optimoz Tweaks, Optimoz Tweaks 0.4, Tweaks, update, version
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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
Posted in General
Tagged exit, Google, Google Analytics, land, page, referral, statistics, Stats, view, visit, visitor, website
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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