Author Archives: chris

Some excellent notes on git

git: fetch and merge, don’t pull « Mark’s Blog.

Cheapo Webcams

I've finally got my MSI-branded webcam working with Skype 2.2 on Ubuntu 10.10, with help from here.

All it took was a simple wrapper script to invoke an extra library.

Comodo Time Machine

If it gets stuck on booting, with messages that end up with 'Too many bad sectors', then you just need to rebuild the MBR.

From Hiren, run

mbrfix /drive <n> fixmbr

where <n> is the drive number, possibly 0 for C: — check that first with

mbrfix /drive <n> driveinfo