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When is a Backup NOT a Backup…

( Apple andLinux andMind Cramp andWindows )

When it uses iTunes…. unfortunately Don’t get me wrong, iTunes does a great job of keeping track of music, pictures and any app’s that you may have installed from their store…. but it’s the little things that it ignores. You know, like configuration files! Here is the set up… I have an iPad and an [...]

A “Source” of Sadness

Actually it’s more like amazement and frustration than sadness…. and I’m talking about “The Source”. Or what used to be called, in Canada, Radio Shack. I did a quick drop in to the store today, to check out a piece of technology that they “used” to be good at. Door/proximity alarm systems…. they used to [...]

NVIDIA Problems with my ATI Graphics Card

( Linux andMind Cramp )

So once again I’ve proven to myself that Ubuntu – my favourite operating system STILL isn’t ready for prime time! I would have thought that after two years of getting things “better” they would have gotten some of the basic stuff right! I mean I ranted about problems with ATI Cards and Ubuntu TWO YEARS [...]

The “I’m right, your wrong”s…

So I’ve been distracted for the last couple of days trying to get a great little flight simulator called RealFlight to work on Virtualbox ( a stand alone Windows environment ) within my Ubuntu 9.10 environment. It would start the main menu, but then fail when I tried to go further, complaining that the graphics [...]

A Brilliant Article

( Mind Cramp andWWW )

For those who follow the goings and comings of the Internet, in particular it’s changes, both by technology and by law must be closely watching the goings on in England these days. Those “virtuous” organizations responsible for the protection of all the “stuff’ ( sorry I’m trying to be kind here ) coming out of [...]

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