In this short howto, I show you how to combine the Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) with both Knoppix 6.2.1 and Ubuntu 10.04 onto a single USB stick to create An Even More Ultimate Boot Disk (EMUBD)! UBCD is a bootable CD image that’s fantastic if you’re trying to save grandma’s PC from a certain death, [...]
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An Even More Ultimate Boot Disk!
May 24th, 2010 · No Comments · howto, nerd, tech
Tags:boot·flash·knoppix·linux·ubcd·ubuntu·ultimatebootcd·usb
Weekly Head Voices #11: iCalmDown.
January 31st, 2010 · 2 Comments · life, science, work
My Tall Philosophical Neighbour (henceforth TPN) blogged today about the iCalmDown, which, as you know, is the latest Apple product released with perhaps a tad too much fanfare this past week. Yes, I do realise that I’m most privileged to have a tall neighbour who’s both philosophical and manages to blog with more regularity than [...]
Tags:academia·philosophy·science·sled·suse·ubuntu·von humboldt·weekly head voices
Weekly Head Voices #5: Google Docs, Bad Netbook Karma, Cold does not cause cold.
September 27th, 2009 · 4 Comments · education, life, work
It’s been a terribly quiet week blog-wise, but I did make that promise four weeks ago, and, seeing that I want to be a columnist when I grow up (hint hint employers of columnists) and those guys and girls simply HAVE to think up something interesting every single week, I too am going to do [...]
Tags:google·netbook·ubuntu·visualisation·visualization·weekly head voices
Backport of unison 2.27.57 to Ubuntu 7.10
November 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments · tech
So you’ve upgraded some of your machines to Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex, argh) and you’re really very happy with yourself. That is, until you try to run your trusty unison synchronisation scripts and notice that due to the version mismatch between unison on 8.10 (2.27.57) and unison on 7.10 (2.13.16), you are screwed. Because I [...]
