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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 [...]
http://wikileaks.de/wiki/Australian_government_secret_ACMA_internet_censorship_blacklist%2C_6_Aug_2008
The above link takes you to an article on wikileaks.de regarding the censoring of the internet in Australia. You can download the list of banned sites from there and view them for yourself. I encourage you to save a copy for you own research.
While Wikileaks is used to exposing secret government censorship in developing countries, [...]
I’ve had a couple of problems with podcast episodes that partially download. The episode will show as being 50 minutes in the description though only, say, 3 minutes downloads. This has been quite frustrating as a recent episode of the DopeFiends Psychonautica PodCast was a talk by the author Tom Roberts who I happen to [...]
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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 [...]