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Getting an Epson Pefection 4490 Photo scanner going with Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10

March 7, 2013 Leave a response Shortlink

My Epson Perfection 4490 Photo scanner has been in my possession for a while now and its impossible to justify any replacement given that it both works well and digital photography has taken over from its film predecessor for me. Every [...]

Booting from external drives

September 16, 2009 Leave a response Shortlink

Sticking with older hardware may mean that you miss out on the possibilities offered by later kit and being able to boot from external optical and hard disk drives was something of which I learned only recently. Like many things, [...]

On keyboards

April 17, 2009 Leave a response Shortlink

There cannot be too many Linux users who go out and partner a Microsoft keyboard with their system but my recent cable-induced mishap has resulted in exactly that outcome. Keyboards are such standard items that it is not so possible [...]

A very silly mishap

April 15, 2009 Leave a response Shortlink

Last night, something very stupid happened to me: I tripped up in my main PC’s cables and brought the behemoth crashing about the place. There was some resulting damage with the keyboard PS/2 socket being put out of action and [...]

Seamless VirtualBox VM Application Windows on Ubuntu

Getting VirtualBox 2.02 working on Ubuntu 8.04

October 10, 2008 2 Responses Shortlink

Having run VirtualBox OSE (1.5.6) for a while now, I succumbed to the idea of grabbing the latest version from the VirtualBox website and putting it on my main Linux box. The idea of having 64-bit support proved irresistible and [...]

iPod, identified

December 9, 2007 Leave a response Shortlink

Plug in an iPod to a PC running Ubuntu and it will recognise what it has got. That act mounts the player as a hard drive and fires up the Rhythmbox Music Player. The usual file transfer capabilities are available [...]

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