New beginnings
Things seem to be breaking around here again.
The latest hair raising fiasco was Herself’s laptop going properly belly-up. I say hair raising as a testament to Herself’s reaction when she can’t get into Farcebook.
It was a nightmare to fix [for the techies, the boot sector fried itself, or something]. In the end I restored the machine using its built in “feature”, so now she has fucking Windoze 10. I reinstalled Linux as the primary and then remembered that the damned machine has some obscure wifi setup that Linux doesn’t recognise. Bugger-shit-bollox!
Anyways it’s working now and there is no more hammering on the attic pipes or screams echoing around the parish. Plugging Herself into Farcebook is like plugging a soother into a screaming infant’s mouth. Blissful silence.
In the middle of all that, and indeed for the last few days I have been involved with a little project which seems to be ready for public consumption.
Ladies and Gentlemen – [loud fanfare of trumpets] – I give you Leg Iron Books.
Leg Iron Books. Nice one.
Sure didn’t it keep me out of mischief for a day or two?
I like the looks of the new project. Simple and effective, the way it should be. Boot sector frying itself is definitely an odd one. And the wireless problem–the laptop’s wireless hardware wasn’t Broadcom was it?
Content over style.
It’s a Realtek. I found instructions to install the drivers so it now works but only just. It’s about six feet from the router at the moment and rates the signal strength at around 50%.
Ah yes. I now recall that certain Realtek chipsets have problems. Luckily, the one in my old ThinkPad T430 isn’t one of them. By the way, if you haven’t tried installing “Wavemon” (in Mint that is) try it out. It’s a simple command line tool that tells you all sorts of wonderful things about the wireless signal your laptop is connected to. It’s in the repositories. Once installed just type”wavemon” in the terminal and enjoy all the things you really didn’t want to know.
Very nice site!
A stunning elegant site if I may say so. Andi beat me in the race to refer Leg Iron to you for your expertise in the construction of a web site. (unless ,of course, we were in fact too late anyway)
Just curious but why no mention of Curratech on the new web site? If it were me by god there would be monstrous biblical trumpet blowing. Long may you and Leg Iron be on my daily visit list.