Category: NZTekonverse -> Uncategorised
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Xubuntu issues: Graphics card not starting / network dropping out
There are two significant issues I seem to be seeing a lot of in Xubuntu lately. Network disconnecting: I will go to load a new web page and it fails to load. Fail to resume after hibernation: previously resume has been very reliable. The network problem is fairly new but it is difficult to pin…
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Avoid the Trademe courier price wizard pricing in your auction
Not so long ago Trademe added a nifty courier pricing wizard into their listings screen. When you list an item you can use this feature to work out what it will cost to ship items by courier (it works out what options are available from different couriers and gives you a list of them). There…
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Veon 32″ TV SRO322016
My 22″ UA22ES5000 Samsung TV bit the bullet recently and so I managed to raise some funds to replace it with a 32″ Veon from the Warehouse at the princely cost of $269 (compared to $399 full price – $199 actually paid in a sale, for the smaller but sharper original). Whereas the Samsung had…
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Broadbandless household
Well how do you have a household without broadband? You skive off free wifi and use your huge 6 GB cellular data on your $50 phone plan is how you do it. Since Vodafone has just upped the data on my plan to 6 GB for no extra cost. Simply put, I have decided to…
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Video conversion with Handbrake
When it comes to video conversion then Handbrake has to be up there as a FOSS package that is produced for a variety of platforms. Although it doesn’t have a wide range of output formats (just MP4 and MKV) it is a high quality product that I have had no hesitation about installing on Windows…