Day 2 After our 1st day in Paris my legs were very sore from walking just about everywhere. Day 2 was an excercise in endurance, despite severe muscular pain in my legs I still managed to walk all over the country side. We went into the Catacombs under Paris a place...
So Paris is nothing like Sydney. The bus ride from the Airport showed me modern Paris and like all big cities there was miles and miles of industrial parks and motorways. After a "sortie" from our accommodation I feel I must repent in dust and ashes. To think that I...
Just got to our accomodation in Paris. It's quite nice actually. It's in one one of those old buildings that has been retro fitted for the modern era. It's got interesting plumbing and electrical. But it also has wifi so I'm happy. I haven't seen much of Paris as yet....
Just arrived in Hong Kong. The approach was really beautiful the lights of the city and the interspersed clouds made me feel like a mythological god looking down on humanity. Hong Kong airport is big, modern and organized. Despite me being a nervous traveler, the...
Mum took us to the airport. I've made the classic mistake of getting here way too early. Good news is there is wifi. I'm looking across at a youngish woman using an Apple (macbook I think). It's got this massive glowing apple on the back of the monitor. Brand is...
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After several months of preparations I have half a day of work to go before we head to Sydney and fly to Paris to begin our 6 week European Vacation. I think I will divert this blog for a few weeks from the predominately IT/Linux postings and try my Lonely Planet...
I installed Ubuntu onto my HP Mini 110 using the Windows Ubuntu Installer (Wubi). A Wubi install of Ubuntu is basically virtual disk files sitting on top of the Windows 7 NTFS file system, and a mod to the windows 7 boot manager enables you to boot Ubuntu which uses a...
OK so I have installed Ubuntu 11.04 on a HP Mini and am currently finding and installing useful apps so that I can run it in a Windows environment. So I find I need: tsclient (with the following 2 apps also) rdesktop (Remote Desktop Connection to Windows Boxen)...
I use Putty to access a character application that makes extensive use of F1-F11 function keys so you can imagine how annoying it is to have to press the fn key every time I wanted an F1. So a trip to the BIOS and change the "Action Key Mode" to <disabled> And...