Well over a year ago I bought an Iomega iConnect USB hub. From day one it didn’t work and I documented some of my troubles on this site. A couple of weeks ago to my amazement it started working properly. I haven’t a clue why as I did nothing to it. I didn’t upgrade software [...]
Filed under: Tech stuff on December 28th, 2011 | No Comments »
In the last couple of days, for various reasons I have completely reinstalled Linux on this machine. One of the great joys of Linux is the ease with which a reinstall can be done. A Windows reinstall is a slow process and when it is complete there is the tedious and lengthy process of reinstalling [...]
Filed under: Linux, Tech stuff on December 16th, 2011 | 3 Comments »
When I recently installed Mint 12 Lisa, I discovered I had a problem with Filezilla. My usual method of dragging a file from the remote pane to local caused Filzilla to crash spectacularly. My good friend Kirk over in the States discovered the cause (Filezilla requires the wxWidgets library which apparently is missing in Mint [...]
Filed under: Linux, Tech stuff on December 15th, 2011 | 5 Comments »
