23 Jan 2012
Posted by Quantum at 9:10 pm
The past few weeks have been troublesome. A constant scratching on my thigh as my keys pushed though the pocket wall of my work trousers. The temporary fix of micro-pore tape had worked for the last time as the fibres parted ways never to join again. Today however things were different, a new pair of [...]
18 Dec 2011
Posted by Quantum at 12:32 pm
My recent posts have been detailing my war with the local rodent population. The battle has moved from the kitchen into the loft in recent weeks. During the loft insulation project several large holes were sealed trapping the enemy in the loft, numbers unknown. A clean kill and subsequent silence on the front lead me [...]
15 Dec 2011
Posted by Quantum at 8:37 pm
The rat from the kitchen had decided to move up the cavity wall into the loft. This was not acceptable, its scratching was keeping me awake at night and its movements moving my insulation. Yesterday the problem was…..resolved (unless there are more).
04 Dec 2011
Posted by Quantum at 9:55 pm
It happened before, it is happening again. The rat is back!! I entered a darkened kitchen and switched on the light. The murky darkness at the side of the washing machine was disturbed by a flicker of movement. Glancing down to focus, nothing. I approached the washing machine to hear a rapid exit being made [...]
23 Oct 2011
Posted by Quantum at 11:09 pm
The food pictures are evidence from almost 2 months ago. Since that time there has been no more evidence of rodent food consumption. This week there was a smell in the kitchen that I assumed was the bin. Emptying the bin didn’t shift the smell but I was preoccupied by an plague of flies that [...]
03 Aug 2011
Posted by Quantum at 10:10 pm
In my previous post I outlined in a somewhat comic fashion the note I had found in my bin with regards to its placement on a pavement. The note had been placed there for good reason as a number of bins mine included had been strewn about. Now that was some weeks back and ever [...]
27 Feb 2011
Posted by Quantum at 11:55 am
I have been trying to get my Windows 7 (Pro) machine to connect to the CUPS printer on my Linux server. Whilst it used to work with Windows XP (Home) via IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) I was having no luck with Windows 7. One reason for the problem is my network security and firewalls. I [...]
06 Jan 2011
Posted by Quantum at 5:03 pm
It has been just over a month since I switched my Linux computers from Gentoo to Fedora. I am happy to report that all is going well. There have been a few issues but these are minor annoyances rather than major problems. The first problem was with my laptop. Having started using it with Fedora [...]
31 Aug 2010
Posted by Quantum at 8:09 pm
This week I took delivery of a 40GB Solid State Drive (SSD) an a copy of Windows 7 Professional to give a boost to my quad core box. Windows XP has had a good run and it is getting to the point where an OS upgrade is needed to get the best out of the [...]
18 Dec 2009
Posted by Quantum at 11:15 pm
I recently upgraded from Mozilla Thunderbird 2 to the new Thunderbird 3 release. For a few days everything was working fine with the new default settings. I have a few email accounts which Thunderbird fetches mail for and I didn’t want to use the new Smart Folder mode. So I changed back to not using [...]
