Archive for October, 2009

How to make grub work again after some windows operation broke it

Monday, October 19th, 2009

So you are dual booting Linux and Windows on your computer. It used to work just fine. But now, you ‘ve either reinstalled Windows, rewrote the MBR “Windows-repair” way for some reason, or whatever the case, suddenly, no more grub when you boot up. What do you do?
Simpleee.
1. Grab an Ubuntu CD and boot [...]

Music players

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

My history of portable music players goes back a while and for reasons which will become clear at the end, I decided taking a short trip though it might be fun. Here goes nothing!
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It must have been somewhere in the late ’90s that my parents got me an Aiwa cassette player. This was the first [...]

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