Archive for the ‘Fixing stuff’ Category

Replacing Windows 98, and other seemingly impossible tasks

Posted on December 14, 2012, 11:42 pm, by Alan.

Can we find something to replace Windows 98 on contemporary hardware? Find out in this episode…

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Ubuntu Studio 12.04

Posted on May 10, 2012, 4:08 pm, by Alan.

Not so long ago, I posted about my attempts to bring my old DAW system back to life with Lubuntu.  Emboldened by my success, and eager to get it on a nice firm LTS-release foothold, I tried to upgrade it to Precise Pangolin a few weeks ago.  Sadly, the results were not so great:  after [...]

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Recovering data from a PC: a guide for “not computer people”

Posted on February 3, 2012, 12:43 pm, by Alan.

It’s a little unfortunate how much we rely on something as unreliable as a computer.  There you are, working along, happily doing your thing, and suddenly Windows (or OSX, or Linux, or BEOS, or whatever it is that sits between your hardware and your web browser) pukes up some error and refuses to boot, work, [...]

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