February 2006 Archives

February 22, 2006
by Neil T
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Jumping through reboot hoops

Gledster was kind enough to point me to this solution to the ‘Can’t Find Requested String.’ error that I’ve been having with my Intel graphics.
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February 22, 2006
by Neil T
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Burnt out car

On my way to campus this morning, I saw this – a burnt out car on a bit of grassland near the university.
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February 22, 2006
by Neil T
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And all that malarkey

According to the Compact Oxford English Dictionary, the origin of the word ‘malarkey’ is unknown.
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February 20, 2006
by Neil T
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A badly-written piece of software used up 100% of my CPU for several minutes, which caused the power to be cut out while web browsing. When I rebooted and had ChkDisk clear up the damage, it found that my Firefox cookies file was messed up and ‘fixed’ it. Consequently when I next ran Firefox, I had no cookies.
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February 20, 2006
by Neil T
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More Silence

Yet again, I’ve let this blog go silent.
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February 20, 2006
by Neil T
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Random Queries #13

Another one of the random queries used to get to this site.
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February 17, 2006
by Neil T
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Fixing Windows Genuine Advantage on Firefox

Recently Microsoft launched Windows Genuine Advantage, a tool that prevented the installation of various Windows add-ons on non-genuine copies of Windows. A plugin for Firefox has been released, but it doesn’t always work.
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February 16, 2006
by Neil T
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Dick is a Killer

Well, okay, he didn’t actually kill the man he accidently shot, but you can download the song “Dick Is A Killer” from The Party Party.
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February 16, 2006
by Neil T
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Blog, and ye shall receive comments

I’ve uploaded a few more photos to Flickr, including this one from Manchester which I’m quite proud of.
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February 16, 2006
by Neil T
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Random Queries #12