Archive for February, 2010
My son, and a glass of wine, put an end to my nx6125 last week. It powers on but the keyboard is shot, the display permanently stuck on the dimmest setting, and five vertical lines (and counting) to boot down the screen. Oh well, I’ve had it a few years and I was ready for [ READ MORE ]
I found an incredibly faded watercolour print by J. A. Hurley (I think) and really liked the composition. I was reminded of Withypool, Exmoor and decided to paint the moors in the rain. I tackled this as an experiment but am rather pleased with the result. Of course I don’t take any credit for the [ READ MORE ]
Mounting Windows shares permanently is relatively straightforward. This is how I did it: Create new mount point. Create new entry in /etc/fstab. Change the unmount order. Create new mount point martin@lagothrix:~$ sudo mkdir /srv/cifs/media Create new entry in /etc/fstab martin@lagothrix:~$ sudo nano /etc/fstab Include the following line. Replace userid with the proper value: //saimiri/media /srv/cifs/media [ READ MORE ]
Open the terminal and edit /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts. Replace all references to old host name with the new. Finally, execute the following: martin@mico:~$sudo /etc/init.d/hostname.sh start[ READ MORE ]
I’m so disappointed with Ubuntu 9.10-Karmic Koala-that I decided to start over with Ubuntu 9.04-Jaunty Jackalope. This time I’ve opted for x86; there’s really little benefit making use of the nx6125′s 64-bit architecture. It’s not an ideal solution but at least standby and hibernation work now. The only significant issue concerned Windows sharing; fortunately MLManley’s [ READ MORE ]
A series of three watercolours I painted on location last year. They all depict the river Bandiat at L’Epinassie (near Marval) on the Haute-Vienne and Dordogne border. This was my first experience of painting on location and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. It was also the first time I painted a water scene. I learned a lot [ READ MORE ]
Encouraged by the positive feedback I thought I post an earlier painting[ READ MORE ]
Thanks to The Weekly Whinge I now have a British English thesaurus working with OpenOffice 3 on Ubuntu 9.10. Whinger created an OpenOffice extension using the stock en-gb dictionary and Paul Huffton’s thesaurus from brit-thesaurus.sourceforge.net. View screenshots British English Thesaurus.This thesaurus (th_en_GB) is intended mainly for use with OpenOffice, but should also be customisable to [ READ MORE ]
A watercolour painting I completed over the Christmas break. It’s based on work by Terry Harrison. I’m particularly pleased with the sky, which I did using the wet-on-wet technique. Hopefully I’ll find more time for my watercolour this year[ READ MORE ]
