February 22nd, 2007
My trusty Canon A70 has followed me for many years, but last November it succumbed to the dreaded CCD fault. Even though I didn’t have proof of purchase etc. I got in contact with my local Canon repair centre via email and they said if it was the CCD bug, they’d replace it free of […]
September 9th, 2006
As I ticked the “please send me information by post” box when signing up to UCAS, I have been getting more post than usual from universities trying to attract my attention. There have been a few “wacky” letters (that go straight into the bin partially unopened) but today the De Montfort University of Leicester came […]
December 23rd, 2005
While I like my Thinkpad, I dislike the fan noise that it makes. On Slackware you literally have to turn on some music to drown out the constant whirr of the fan. The GPU itself is a Mobility Radeon 7500, but unfortunately crappy ATi haven’t bothered to release a Linux driver that caters for it […]