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VirginTrain Manchester to London
Last updated on July 3rd, 2015 at 11:13 pm I caught a VirginTrain from Manchester to London. Technically it was from Stockport four miles out of Manchester. The trick for booking these fares online is you can?t book the day of your travel with any reliability. The phone support people said I could, but…
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Spyware hits Sydney International Airport Kiosks
Last updated on July 3rd, 2015 at 11:07 pm I wrote before that Samsung provides free internet kiosks at Sydney International Airport. Unfortunately in a sign of the times, all the free kiosks are spyware infected tonight. So infected that none of them are operational. Firstly it?s foolish to run an unattended public internet accessible…
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Mac OS X Keyboard navigation
Last updated on July 3rd, 2015 at 10:45 pm For those switching from Windows to a Mac go and read the excellent HOWTO Switch To The Mac article from Tao of Mac If you?re keyboard-oriented, go into System Preferences | Keyboard and Mouse | Keyboard Preferences and Turn on full keyboard access. Now you can…
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Installing Etherboot on a Hard Disk Drive
Last updated on July 3rd, 2015 at 10:29 pm My Linux Terminal Server Project is going well, however one of the painful support problems in branches is people removing the Rom-O-Matic boot CD?s we use to boot old PC?s on the terminal server. A lot of the old PC?s have hard drives and staff tinker…
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Compaq HP Presario Keyboard woes
Last updated on July 3rd, 2015 at 08:50 pm My Compaq Presario 2100 (actually 2104US) had a keyboard problem. Luckily I did some more searching before buying a replacement keyboard. Having said that, HP?s replacement keyboard is sub $35 AUD so I spent more time on this than it the part was worth. The solution…
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HP and Compaq service manual
Last updated on July 3rd, 2015 at 08:38 pm My Compaq Presario 2104US laptop is playing up. It?s seems as if a non-printing key like ctrl is stuck down (except I don?t think it is that key). Symptoms: Alt-Tab in windows doesn?t work as if ctrl key is held down. Ctrl-tab works pressing and holding…
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The perfect RSS reader aggregator
Last updated on July 3rd, 2015 at 08:15 pm I?ve been on the hunt for the perfect RSS reader or aggregator without much luck. I?ve downloaded lots, installed many and uninstalled all. Here are my specifications. Let me know if something matches it. Client PC not web-based. I need speed to scan many feeds. Bloglines…
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Dialling US toll free numbers from Overseas
Last updated on July 3rd, 2015 at 04:53 pm Many people don?t realise that you can dial US Toll free numbers (800) from overseas. The calls aren?t toll free, but with calling cards at about 1 cent per minute it?s cheaper than most local calls. In Australia, dial your calling card access code, enter your…
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Backup your blog
Last updated on July 3rd, 2015 at 08:26 pm Frequently Asked Questions over at WordPress.com has a brilliant piece on backups for bloggers. Several years ago I had to reconstruct?WealthEsteem.org after catastrophic hardware failure. Luckily Google had begun indexing it so I didn?t lose any posts. But rebuilding the comments proved too hard. Matt and…
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MSN Clones
Last updated on July 3rd, 2015 at 03:35 pm My daughter has reached an age where all her friends are on MSN. While the school is concerned about it, I think that (occasionally monitored) online chat is actually a useful skill. Most of the chat is what you’d expect of tweens, misunderstandings and hurt feelings…