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ADSL Speedtest
Just tried this nice clean interface for speed tests with multiple ISPs http://www.ozspeedtest.com/bandwidth/
Speedtouch Home – Firmware Upgrade Fails when run from Firefox
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...
squirrelmail ‘/usr/games/fortune’ is not found.
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...
Milestone – 1st Shower in New Bathroom
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...
Observations of Hunter Valley for make glory of Telarah
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...
Madman Music Manager Rocks
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...