Here is a quick rundown of the steps required to prepare an external disk drive with Ubuntu. This has been tested with Gutsy Gibbon version 7.10, but should work for most versions. These are the steps required to use and External Disk drive, tested with an 3.5″ IDE disk drive in a portable case. You […]

On my home Linux server I have two hard disks. The first has my main operating system files, the other is to use as a separate data partition. As I was migrating over from another computer my 2nd drive still held my old data. It is only now that I have copied everything over that […]

Book Review: Title: Career Warfar 10 Rules for building your successful brand on the business battlefield Authors: David F. D’Alessandro with Michele Owens Publisher: McGraw-Hill Date: 2004 ISBN: 0-07-146214-7 This is one of those books that gives a set of guidelines which will improve your chances of improving your career. It doesn’t promise success, much […]

Last month I posted about the problems I’ve been having with Virgin Media, who wouldn’t accept a payment, because my account wasn’t due any money but then sent threatening letters / passed my details to a debt collection agency. To understand the issues you need to read: Virgin Media – Not taking payment then contacting […]

The PenguinTutor.com website was taken offline for a short time between the 23 and 24 January. Apologies to any inconvenience caused. This was caused by the monthly permitted bandwidth being consumed during one day by an attempted cracker (most people would refer to them as a hacker, although that is not the real meaning of […]

Our daughter has now reached the age for potty / toilet training. She had shown an interest in using the potty some time, which I think is at least partly due to watching other children use the potty at nursery. We waited until the New Year as this gave a good point to start the […]

On the subject of compatibility problems in Windows Vista I have now got SimCity 4 Deluxe edition working. Simcity 4 deluxe is the latest version of SimCity, but was released several years ago, before Vista was on the scene. The deluxe part of Simcity is that is includes the Rush Hour expansion pack, which was […]

I bought my HP Pavilion dv6285eu Notebook PC during April 2007. This was shortly after manufacturers had started to release laptops running Windows Vista. Having run Windows Vista for a few months I have not been very impressed. Reasons why Windows Vista is worse than Windows XP. As a result of this I decided to […]

Since getting my HP Pavilion Entertainment Laptop back from the repairers: Warrenty repair of HP laptop dv62000 – wireless network problem, I decided to use it as an opportunity to reinstall the OS. I’d already upgraded the laptop to 2GB of memory (from the original 1GB), and I’d recently bought a 250GB disk drive to […]

I have recently had to send my HP laptop in for repair under warranty. The problem was due to the Wifi Wireless Internet stopping working. It turns out this is a bit of a common problem on the dv6000 series laptops as the following forum (for a slightly different model suggests): dv6140us (dv6000) wireless problem. […]