Things to do when you are unemployed

Posted on by Steve | Category: Computing, Rants

Well I’m still sort of offically employed : my last pay cheque arrives this Friday but I’m laid off. So I’ve been using an old Toshiba Satellite SA30 laptop running Ubuntu and its OK but its only a 640*480 display and it was getting a bit unreliable. You know when the disk drive starting making […]

Linux

Posted on by Steve | Category: Computing

At the weekend I replaced the broken power connector on our old Toshiba SA30. I tidied it up, defragged it all and then applied the latest set of Microsoft patches. Thats where it all went wrong – system just hung on reboot. Booting in safe mode it showed windows crapping out on mup.sys Now as […]