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I just picked up a Lenovo R61i laptop and immediately removed any trace of windows on the system and installed the latest version of Linux Mint, code named Helena. It is based on the Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala.Everything worked straight away except for the internal microphone which I only discovered today while trying to set-up [...]

Warning – Geek Rant – Geek Rant….
So, my first generation Maxtor ‘One Touch’ (one touch with a hammer will fix this drive enclosure!) firewire external hard drive failed. The internal PATA 160gb hard drive failed and I, in my naive way, thought, “I should just replace the hard drive inside the enclosure so I can [...]

—— from www.thepiratebay.org in sweeden on 31/05/08 —–
Two years and still going
Today we celebrate! Two years ago on this day, the 31st of May, the Swedish police raided our facilities. They worked hard and long and tried stealing all of our servers, all of our backups and all of our admins. As usual, they did [...]

I was stumped the other day trying to download a podcast from a site that published the podcast through the itunes portal. The reason I was stumped is because you can only download an itunes podcast from a computer that is running macos or windows with apples itunes software installed. I run Linux on my [...]