Archive for December, 2007

Date: December 21st, 2007
Cate: Travel

Egypt

Well, i’m in Egypt now, Cairo to be exact. This place is insane.

Went to the Pyramids yesterday – I wanted to post a few pics but this computer won’t let me.

So I guess I just wanted to say hi to all and note that in my extreme disorganisation I failed to take anyone’s email address, phone number or address with me. So don’t expect an email or postcard unless you email me your self with your details.

I’m also very sorry to those I didn’t get a chance to say good bye too. Nothing personal I promise.

And finally to A(S/M), if you happen across this post, please give my love and birthday wishes to that amazing child of yours.

Date: December 13th, 2007
Cate: Me
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Be Back Mid-Jan

Hello my beautiful readers (both of you).

I’m off to Egypt on Monday and Meredith tomorrow so I dare say that this will be my last post for about a month. However I might post some stuff from Egypt if I have the time and the inclination.

In the mean time, if you happen to be thinking of me, why not suggest a domain name I should register in the comments. I’m thinking about switching web hosts and I’ll get a free domain name with my new host.

Date: December 3rd, 2007
Cate: Comedy

Spoof London Underground Announcements

Emma Clarke is the voice behind the “mind the gap” announcements on the London Underground.

It would appear she also has a sense of humour.

Check out her Spoof London Underground Announcements

(Via Copyfight)

Date: December 2nd, 2007
Cate: Comedy

T A Y to the Z

Because the last post was so boring, here’s an example of what can happen to you if you gain cult status on the internet:

Date: December 2nd, 2007
Cate: ICT
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Sound on a Toshiba Tecra A8 with Ubuntu 7.10

Sorry, this is an extraordinarily boring post for everyone but a nice reference for me and it might help someone in the same situation as me.

I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 7.10 on my Toshiba Tecra A8 and found that sound from my speakers weren’t working (although the headphones were). I had a bit of a look around and had to cross reference a few bits on information I’d found in order to get it to work.

But to cut to the chase, I opened gedit as root by typing the following in the terminal window:

sudo gedit

the opened the file

/etc/modprobe.d/asla-base

and added the following line to the bottom

options snd-hda-intel enable=1 index=0 model=basic

I then ran

update-modules

Although I’m not 100% that did anything. And then I rebooted and it worked.

Hope that’s helpful to someone.