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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 →

Today is the day that we are upgrading to Bell-Aliant FibreOp.  I have been on Aliant ADSL since, well, almost forever – whenever they brought out ADSL in the St. John’s metro area.  It was call Warp 3 service that … Continue reading →

I’m still having problem with USB 3 and Linux Mint; version 12 in this case.  I’m going back and trying the pci=nomsi option once again.  This is really, really annoying since all my VMware Workstation virtual machines reside on the … Continue reading →