This was the suggestion made by technical support for Tiscali when I spoke to them this afternoon to report a slowdown in our service.
You need to turn off the firewall setting on your router.
The initial explanation for the crazily slow speed was that it was peak time. Once I answered that, then it was time [...]

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The Ubuntu install on this laptop is now on it’s 3rd version (8.04 having started on 6.10) and it works really well, except it doesn’t want to automatically mount USB media. It used to. Then it stopped.
The problem started at the same time I installed the luks crypto and created an encrypted USB drive. That [...]

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September 30th saw me complete my 366. The thought of taking a picture a day for a year (a leap year, hence the 366 not 365 days) didn’t seem too daunting when I embarked on it, but as the year wore on my attitude changed. Some days I found myself not wanting to pick up [...]

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