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The other day I was on the train past the Hawthorns and Jewellery Quarter going into Birmingham and saw all the abandoned warehouses and factories just sitting there doing nothing. It got me to thinking about a good use of these buildings and came up with a few ideas with Katie. Some of these were
Vegan/Vegetarian [...]
Tags: birmingham, birminghamuk, blogger cafe, creative, hawthorns, jewellery quarter, regeneration
Day 4
I’ve made some progress since my last blog post. I was having issues with installing Ubuntu while hooked up to TV via the TV-out port on my ATI Radeon 7000. So I went over to my gf’s parents house and hooked the machine up to an LCD monitor. I have a bit more sucess [...]
Day two
Got a keyboard and USB adapter. Plugged in and boot. Blank screen. Lovely.
Need to check boot order. F2 to launch BIOS - no effect. Pulled out CMOS battery and boot.
We’re in. OK, hard drive detected, cd drive detected. Check boot order. Floppy, CD, Hard disk. Good. Reboot. Problem with CD drive. Change BIOS to ignore and swap cd to other drive. Works.
Install Ubuntu. Loading screen.
SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 15df9320
Google. Reboot and check disc. (This may take some time) - Errors found in 1 files Tried CD in different drive.
“Cannot operate in Low Graphics Mode” - Now I need to select my monitor. Well its a TV, so I’ll just try a monitor at 800×600. OK. Blank screen.
Damn, Reboot. Try again. Different resolution. Blank screen.
Damn. This isn’t looking good.So maybe the disk is bad. Heaven forgive me, I’ll install XP.
1 hour later and I’m downloading the first of 88 software patches, but I’m installed. I guess the disk is fine.
Day 3
I think that my issue is running it through a TV for install. Maybe the X11 engine can’t load properly. So I’ll download the alternative CD without the LiveCD and do a text based install. CD is inserted and I boot.
Install in text mode please. And now my screen is flickering like crazy. Its trying to display the image but its not got the right frequency. So I’m stuck.
I tried frantically hitting Enter in the hopes that an installation would eventually start up. Not so true.
Solution: Friday I’m going to my gf’s parents house to borrow their monitor so I can get Ubuntu installed and get the necessary drivers for my ATI Radeon 7000 card. Hopefully it will work when I come back here.
Today I picked up my box which will soon become my MythTV box. I decided to build a PVR for myself a few months back but just needed the supplies.
So far I have the TV tuner card, an Hauppage Win-TV PCI card, a graphic card, Radeon ATI AGP. I just needed the box. Well today [...]
I just saw this pop up online from Dave Slusher who does the fantastic Evil Genius Chronicles blog and podcast. He’s got together with a group of locals to pull together their own new media event, to bring similar style activities you see at SXSW. In his own words, “the Grand Strand Bloggers are [...]
Tags: createsouth, myrtle beach, sxsw
So tonight at the Midlands Mac User Group Richard, Ben and I were talking about the Fon AP that Ben had at Trilby. For some reason he (and others) were having trouble setting up their Fon router to work.
I bought one too for €8 and never got around to setting it up. So I figured [...]
Tags: btopenzone, fon, fonera, hotspots, wifi
That title may not make much sense, and thats cos its a really far off simily (look it up) to my current work situation.
As I said before, I’m currently impending redundancy, and this week, we reached the end of the consultancy period. What does that mean? Well they are now at free liberty to give [...]
