Flashing BIOS with FreeDos Live USB
on Bios, Freedos, Linux, Ubuntu
The bios flasher utility for my Acer Aspire laptop requires a windows or dos installation to run.
Completely distorted laptop display
on Edid, Laptop, Nvidia, Ubuntu, Xorg
I’ve installed Ubuntu so many times now and seen the process improve so much over the past few years that I thought replacing Windows 7 with Ubuntu 12.10 would be a piece of cake. Sadly I was wrong.
SSD optimisations for Ubuntu
on Grub, Optimisation, Ssd, Ubuntu
With my SSD still working despite the taped up data port it’s time to do some tweaks to squeeze out the most performance I can.
Broken SATA port on SSD
on Broken, Fixed, Ssd
Eager to try out my new Samsung 830 SSD I tried to take a few shortcuts while installing it. It didn’t go well.
Updating google docs spreadsheet with POST request
on Apps, Script, Google, Spreadsheet
Google spreadsheets has a nice ImportHtml function that can import data from a list or table within an html page retrieved using a standard GET request.