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LOS ANGELES – May 11, 2012 – Carroll Shelby International, Inc., announced today that Carroll Hall Shelby, a man whose vision for performance transformed the automobile industry, has died at age 89. In the 1960’s Shelby’s company created the Shelby … Continue reading →

I have been looking for how to set up OpenVPN with Network Manager under Linux Mint 12.I think that everyone has found that you cannot use the client.ovpn configuration file that OpenVPN.  After much searching I found the following guide … Continue reading →

Hopefully once Google searches this others having trouble installing the Brother MFC-490CW printer/scanner will find the solution to getting the printer to work. Now, this may be documented elsewhere but the Brother documentation isn’t quite clear on the libc6 per-requisite. … Continue reading →

This likely comes as no surprise to those who are older than myself, but as as passed my 35th birthday – more than a couple of years ago now – I have noticed that the “famous” people start to, well, … Continue reading →

I have just upgraded the Cumulus weather station software to version 1.9.2 Build 1032 from 1029. As I was upgrading the software I was reading the release notes (yeah, not a good practice: One should always read the release notes … Continue reading →

BBC has outdone itself with this year’s April Fool’s Day gag web page! Here’s the link  http://t.co/oApV9Yjx by Greg Stekelman. Yes – I am just as bad as I always am in posting….    

Wikikpedia has blacked itself out in protest of SOPA and PIPA – the anti-piracy legislation by the U.S. Government. I can’t think of another country that would put such restrictions in place. I mean, tampering with the world wide DNS … Continue reading →

The wonderful techs from Bell-Aliant stopped by today to replace the smoked router. That still did not fix the problem with the televisions but I suspect what follows is a coincident. Once they replaced the smoked router – and, yes, … Continue reading →

Looks like it was too good to last: part of the video feed has failed. Suddenly during the middle of Sunday afternoon – when I was about to watch the Huston Texans-Baltimore Ravens game, how ironic is that – the … Continue reading →

Here is an update post-FibreOp install. The installation started about 9:00-9:30-ish and ended just before 4:30. There is a fair bit of work required. The fibre has to be run from the utility pole to the house. Then the UPS … Continue reading →