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France
Ran into some quite heavy rain today, as I drove around the Saverne countryside in the little red MGF, accompanied by former New Millennium features editor, Sarah Keen. Camers: Canon Digital Ixus.
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Setting file and directory properties separately and recursively
Sometimes in GNU/Linux one needs to set file and directory permissions separately and recursively. This is a way to do it. Set file permissions:- find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644 ; Set directory permissions- find . -type d -exec chmod 755 \{\} \; Note these are powerful commands with which you…
Queen Elizabeth II dies.
Today we say a final goodbye to our long reigning Queen. Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, 1926-04-21 ~ 2022-09-08) was Queen of the United Kingdom and fourteen other Commonwealth realms from 1952-02-06 until her death 2022-09-08 16:30 UTC. Her reign of 70 years and 214 days was the longest of any British monarch and the…
Merry Christmas 1988
The very first Garf Technology Christmas card, 1988 Hardly the prettiest card ever made, but it had a sort of simplistic purity. Well, that’s our excuse and we’re sticking to it! 🙂
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How do I change my Google password?
How do I change my Google password is another of those frequently asked questions that customers regularly ask me. It’s one of those “easy when you know how” things. But it is rather nested away amongst all Googles various other settings. So here’s how to do it… Open a browser and go to: https://accounts.google.com. Log in…
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Vista woes might lead us to better things
We bought a couple of IBM Lenovo 3000C200 laptop PCs in 2007 May. These are fairly average 1700MHz laptops purchased from a UK supplier called eBuyer for around 300 quid a throw. These came preloaded with the basic version of Windows Vista. To describe Vista’s performance as dismal would be understatement of the year. Problems…
