Broken Laptop

Written by Paul Brownsea in blog on Sat 30 June 2018.

Oh, no! Now my laptop won’t work. For some reason it won’t boot. After booting a live Linux DVD I ran fsck on the hard disk to fix it, but there were a lot of problems. Now it still won’t boot. I’ve looked at quite a …

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have i been pwned

Written by Paul Brownsea in blog on Mon 25 June 2018.

You give your details to various companies and organisations, when you buy something you give your address and email and more. All you can do is hope that they will look after them. But sometimes these organisations are hacked or carelessly lose your details. There is not much you can …

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MySQL Index Improvement

Written by Paul Brownsea in coding on Tue 19 June 2018.

I’m very pleased with myself today. I actually bothered to track down what was slowing down my website.

I’d first like to say I prefer the word indices to indexes. Also it’s My-S-Q-L not My-Sequel. Actually it’s MariaDB, but that’s not the point.

There were …

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Fathers Day '18

Written by Paul Brownsea in blog on Sun 17 June 2018. Tags: images,

Fathers Day came around again.

I got a great selection of goodies :)

Fathers Day Goodies

  • Bike Lights
  • 2x cards (which adds up about right as there are 2x children)
  • Biscuit/Lolly
  • Bottles of Ginger Beer
  • A Fathers Day Keyring
  • A Teddy that Marley seems to have claimed
  • Pyjamas
  • A Cup of Socks
  • A …

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World Cup Day 2

Written by Paul Brownsea in blog on Fri 15 June 2018.

So, yesterday’s predictions went quite well, although I did get the only match wrong.

Well, today, there are 3 matches and I am very confident.

Egypt / Uruguay Clearly if Egypt can build pyramids that are still a mystery today - they can win this match.

Morocco / Iran I don’t …

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