My wife’s laptop contracted the antivirus 2009 spyware. This is a pain to get rid of – there are some good and thorough instructions on the windowsxp/vista blog about how to remove it. HOWEVER I followed these instructions and found that there is a gateway…
Manage your Inbox
I was recently recommended this cool tool for getting stats from your inbox. The product is called xobni (inbox backwards). It works with Microsoft Outlook as a pluggin and is a free download. It indexes your inbox and then works out statistics like who you…
Find your MAC address on the ipod touch
This is one that stumps a lot of ipod touch users; where is the MAC address on my ipod touch? Well today I thought I would reveal the solution here so mainly I can just send the url the next time I am asked. Go…
You do not have permission to access Ubuntu
I installed Ubuntu on several Dell Latitude C510/C610 that had been properly wiped and were used but empty. Once I figured out an installation CD that worked the installation went smoothly. After rebooting the computer and typing in the user name and password nothing loaded…
Find your Mac Address in Ubuntu
Having just starting using Ubuntu I have been needing to do some basic setup options to put my laptop on the network at the office. We use Mac Address based security and so I needed to find mine for the ethernet card. Looking through all…
Saving default as .doc in Openoffice
I have always thought OpenOffice was a great tool to use – but have been continually frustrated at it saving in the open office format by default, so after some searching and tinkering I found a way to make all the openoffice applications default save…