tenthofjune

I had just gone out of the front door this afternoon when I heard an aircraft approaching - nothing surprising, we get a few planes and helicopters flying around here, but as I turned around to look I was treated to the rarely seen sight of a Lancaster bomber (PA474) flying over at low level. […]

After moving to Leopard, my Canon LIDE 60 scanner was not working, however when I tried to reinstall the driver it just hangs. I found the solution however on the Throwable Blog where you can get links to a download to uninstall the old driver and install a new copy of the LIDE driver.

According to the Register, Data Robotics’ Drobo storage device has finally got something any serious storage device should’ve had from the start - Firewire, and its FW800 too. It finally makes sense to buy one of these.

If you’re still unsure as to whether the PC Brigade have finally lost the plot, then read this article in the Telegraph - I thought it was a joke, but April Fool was 3 months ago.

I have added some photos taken today of the Blackrod Scarecrow Festival to our photo gallery.

I have a couple of external firewire hard drives, including two LaCie d2 drives, one of which is a 160GB. Recently however, it started acting up: while being accessed it would click as though it had been powered down and not respond. The only way to recover from this was to cycle the power. It […]