linux

Localising Google search in Iceweasel

Posted by alex | Filed under:
Dec 27 2008
Iceweasel is making me feel stupid! I simply cannot work out how to add google.co.uk to the list of available search engines. Well not in an easy way anyway. Google UK isn't one of the engines I can choose from the drop down but I do get the option to 'manage search engines'. This lets me order the existing engines sends me here to add new engines. This lists a handful but not what I want.

Debian and internet banking

Posted by alex | Filed under:
Nov 8 2008
... or user agent spoofing with Iceweasel. I've started using Debian again recently (Lenny on my eee pc) after several years of solid Ubuntu use. Everything is working great but there are a couple of annoyances, one being that my bank doesn't let me use Iceweasel to bank online. if you've not followed the Debian Firefox/Iceweasel saga, I'm not going to re-hash it but you can get a good re-cap from wikipedia.

Cifs issues resolved

Posted by alex | Filed under:
Apr 2 2008

I recently bought a freecom network drive. It's was cheap, i.e. the cheapest, but promised support for both kind of computers - Win and Mac. What could go wrong? Of course I soon ran into problems trying to mount it in Ubuntu. Both mounting directly from command line or adding an entry to fstab would give me the error:

Restoring grub after Windows install

Posted by alex | Filed under:
Feb 4 2007

One of the annoying things about dual booting is that a fresh windows install will always overwrite the master boot record (MBR) on the first hard drive thus overwriting Grub (or Lilo etc).

Streaming TV with Sopcast and Ubuntu Linux

Posted by alex | Filed under:
Oct 5 2006

Listening to 2ser's asf stream with Ubuntu

Posted by alex | Filed under:
Aug 13 2006
One thing I really miss about Sydney is listening to the fantastic community radio station radio 2ser. Staffed largely by volunteers, 2ser delivers great music, arts, news and other community programming. Salvation is at hand as they do provide an internet stream. The bad news is that it's in Microsoft's ASF format which poses a bit of a challenge for users of Linux and other free operating systems.

First impressions of Ubuntu's Dapper Drake

Posted by alex | Filed under:
Jul 9 2006
Well Ubuntu is now chugging through a dist-upgrade in the background to bring me dapper. This is the kind of thing I love Debian for, you can always rely on it pretty much working when you a dist-upgrade after a cock-eyed installation procedure. I hope this does. I have been really impressed by Ubuntu's hardware autodetection. I guess it's great when it works, and it did on my pretty basic old p3 workhorse. I used breezy for a few days and found the default environment pretty easy to use, but I found it hid a bit too much detail for me.