Saturday, October 29, 2011

Arch Linux on a Thinkpad X220

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Some thoughts on Arch Linux on the X220: Adding i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 to you kernel boot options can result in considerable cooling and ...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Mount/Read VMWare vmdk Disks

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You can try the VMWare-Mount utility, but an easier way is to use VMWare Player to "map" the disk in the Utilities menu in Machine...
Monday, October 17, 2011

UEFI Bootable Windows 7 USB Media

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Instructions here: http://gitorious.org/tianocore_uefi_duet_builds/pages/Linux_Windows_BIOS_UEFI_boot_USB

Problems with the Thinkpad X220 and GPT, UEFI, MBR and Legacy BIOS Booting

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After several days banging my head against a brick wall and suffering the indifference of Lenovo/IBM tech support I have learnt a lot about...
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Sunday, October 09, 2011

Fix HTC HD2 Digitiser/Touchscreen

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Make sure you try a soft-reset first by pushing the little red button on the back of the phone while it is on. After four months I just disc...
Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key

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I eventually tracked down the above error to the file ~/.Xauthority, which I removed, which solved the problem. Perhaps back it up first.
Monday, June 20, 2011

Recipes: Tagliatelle Carbonara

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As pasta has just been revealed to be the world's favourite food, despite what Giles Coren might think , this recipe turns out to be top...
Friday, June 17, 2011

Short Reviews: Casa Malevo, Argentinian Steak, Marble Arch

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Go for brunch, it's good value and they have proper morcilla. Dinner is fine, but not outstanding and quite expensive. Sides are mean, e...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Short Reviews: Riverfront Restaurant @ BFI, Waterloo

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Before I start complaining, let me just say that the food that we had at the BFI Riverfront was really very good. My smoked haddock fish cak...
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Friday, March 25, 2011

Mongol Rally Non-Sponsorship

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As you may or may not know, Kai and I are planning to do the Mongol Rally this July. It's a jaunt in the name of charity, but as it'...