23 November 2007
Flashing a BIOS or flash disk using a floppy image and Grub
This is to remind myself how it is done. I succeeded by following the recipe at http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Boot_Floppydisk_Image_without_Floppy_using_GRUB
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23 November 2007
Printing an entire (Thunderbird or other mbox) folder of email correspondence
Ever wanted to print out an entire folder archive of email correspondence? Of course, a lot of it will be redundant (do you have long correspondences, quoting the previous message), but it might still be useful. Note that there may be trickier ways of doing this (uploading all to Gmail, which does a nice job of taking out overlapping portions of the thread?).
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14 November 2007
Cod and lentils
Not quite how I wanted it, but good: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/230747
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13 November 2007
Lamb tagine with pomegranate
Delicious: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/moroccanlambtaginewi_84062.shtml
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12 November 2007
Pork with Apple-Onion Marmalade
Found at http://www.cooking.com/recipes/static/recipe739.htm
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3 November 2007
Reinstalling/updating Windows computers
I occasionally do use Windows computers. In the case of my laptop(s), the Windows partition is used… every 5-6 months. Which means all programs and security patches are out of date. All. So here’s my note of things that I need to update, which might also be useful for a fresh install:
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