Nostalgic look at computer data storage we used in the old days of computing.

This posting will be looking at the various methods used to store our data in the old days of computing. Firstly the 8 inch floppy disk. The disk was pretty big, but the actual drives were extremely heavy, they were quite a handful. The 5 1/2” disk was better, you would insert the disk in … Read more

The me-tv software is not working on Linux Mint 13. This should be fixed soon though.

The me-tv package distributed with the Linux Mint 13 maya distribution is not working at the moment, the client-server model they have adopted is quite a change, but when I executed it from a terminal window, I got the error that the database format was not compatible and the me-tv-server was not able to be … Read more