Category Archives: Rants

Dealing With BT

I know I’ve posted about my ADSL problems in the past. Although I haven’t mentioned them since then, they have been lurking all the time and frequently re-appear, meaning the Internet is either painfully slow or unusable for days, even … Continue reading

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Linux on Dell Laptops – Don’t Press the MediaDirect Button

I’ve been pulling late nights at work on and off for around 4 or 5 days. Last night was one such night. Upgrades and updates dragged into the night with me waiting on standby to go in and do my … Continue reading

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Belkin Are Shit

Flush from the success of Windows is shit and O2 are shit, I thought I should tell you Belkin are shit. My dad bought a Linksys WAG54g wireless ADSL modem and router like mine, so my mother can use the … Continue reading

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O2 are Shit

I discovered today that O2 can’t tell their arse from their elbow. It took their struggling billing department monkey 30 minutes to conclude that he couldn’t find out what my call tariff costs are. What? The fucking billing department don’t … Continue reading

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Fixing my PC with initrd

Fucking hell. So as people might know (hell, I’ve complained about it enough), my main workstation broke down. Removed all of the components from the board and no difference. So it was either the CPU or the motherboard itself. I … Continue reading

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I Hope You Die

If you are one of the useless, clueless, tasteless, know-nothing wankers that buys these things, which means they can afford to waste my life with their horrifically irritating TV adverts up to twice per 3 minute break. Really. I hope … Continue reading

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Beloved Mailing List Frustration

I’ve been growing disconcerted recently with the Wolves LUG mailing list, the lifeline of our LUG. We have a growing amount of new people which is always good, but we also have a small number of people that persistently post … Continue reading

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All Soundblasters are not equal

Recent readers will know that I bought a new Creative Labs Soundblaster Live soundcard as they seem to be very well supported under Linux, in a bid to finish this goddam Ubuntu jingle for LUG Radio. Well it arrived today … Continue reading

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Why are mobile phones so complicated to buy?

I need a new mobile phone (thats cell phone for non Brits ). I’ve never been too bothered about having the lastest, greatest phone as my miserly student finances can’t afford it and my needs are modest. I normally keep … Continue reading

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Windows is hard to use

I’ve barely used Windows in the last few months and now I have my laptop back I’m stuck with Windows on it until I can sort the crap restore partition thingy out and install Linux. It’s struck me how hard … Continue reading

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A Perfect World?

Is it the nature of being computer people that makes us frustrated by real world inanimate objects’ refusal to do what we ask of them and means we are also the only people in the world that actually know how … Continue reading

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Laptop Update

So, regular readers (heh ) will know about my Tiny laptop saga. Well despite their 7-10 working day return time, 4 weeks from the day theI logged the fault call, I got my laptop back. And well, it’s great. Nice … Continue reading

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I’m watching the Brit Awards…

I’m going out in a minute but I’m watching the Brit Awards (the British music awards). Best British Rock Band… Surely I can’t be the only person in the world that is able to recognise the fact that Franz Ferdinand … Continue reading

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Fucking robbing bastards!

Don’t buy a computer from Time or Tiny Computers, now also known as The Computer Shop. For those of you outside of the UK, the above companies are part of the same group and are high street PC retailers, peddling … Continue reading

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Words of advice for lazy Linux users

Learn to Search the Fucking Web (STFW) and Read the Fucking Manual (RTFM). Now thats a terrible thing to say, especially to people that literally just stepped straight off the boat as it were. But now some rationalisation. I’ve been … Continue reading

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