I just had a DSL plan change to a 1500/256 line. So I thought I would try and upgrade my Speedtouch Home. The firmware is here For some reason the Speedtouch Home modem that I have had for years won't accept a firmeware upgrade when using Firefox. I had to install the...
In the Fedora version of Squirrelmail if you turn the fortune plugin on to get a quote on the top of your mail folders you may get the following error: /usr/games/fortune is not found. This is because Fedora puts fortune in /usr/bin the...
OK. Well finally the plumbers arrived and have connected the shower, toilet, vanity, bath and floor wastes. So tonight we had our first shower. It was so nice to get clean in our own house for a change (it's been 7 months). I don't recommend taking so long to renovate...
So I moved from Singleton to Telarah about 3yrs ago. Telarah is a suburb of Maitland and it traces it's birth back to the post '55 time(I think) when flooded houses were moved onto new lots, up on the hill out of the flood waters (my house has river mud in the...
I have been using madman for indexing and organising my music and recordings for about three years. Each time a new distribution comes out I sometimes need to recompile it. Which I did recently for Fedora 7. I did at one stage write a spec file and get it all nicely...
So I went to the book shop at Greenhills Shopping Centre the other day and shelled out thirty dollars on "Online Investing on the Australian Sharemarket" Edition 3 by Roger Kinsky. I'm up to chapter 3 and I find it very readable. I haven't been flummoxed by jargon as...
I have been using Exetel for a couple of years now. Why do I think they are great? The most cost effective ISP in Australia - AFAIK A fixed IP on your DSL connection means you can have your own web presence without having to resort to dynamic dns The notification...
If you run a flavour of Linux as your Operating System. Chances are you'll appreciate the number of little tweaks you have to make, to get it 'just how you want it' (I wonder if someone has TM'd those words yet?). I have recently moved from `Ubuntu 7.04' to `Fedora 7'...
The font size for the <code> </code> tags was tiny using sumanasa.com's template so I did the following to improve the display. This was for firefox I don't know if it was bad in ie. Open style.css and add code { font-size: 9pt; }
The plumbers have delayed again. This time till Tuesday next week. I am so over it. I just want to have a shower in my own home. In Australia there are certain things that have to be done by someone licensed for the task. Plumbing is one of those things. So we wait. I...