Aubrey

Author's details

Name: Aubrey Kilian
Date registered: 27 March 2008
URL: http://www.dociletree.co.za/
AIM: 9741916
Jabber / Google Talk: aubreykilian
Yahoo! IM: aubreykilianza

Latest posts

  1. Migrating data (and apps2sd!) between SD cards on HTC Hero — 21 May 2010
  2. LAMP development on OSX — 3 August 2009
  3. Blog update — 6 July 2009
  4. Articles on The Incredible Blog — 20 March 2009
  5. MSSQL and ON UPDATE — 26 February 2009

Most commented posts

  1. Fixing Windows MBR with Ubuntu 8.04.1 Live-CD — 8 comments
  2. Zend Framework updated to 1.5.1 — 4 comments
  3. Skitch alternative, and for Windows too! — 4 comments
  4. New blog — 3 comments
  5. Nintendo Wii PAL vs. NTSC ripoffs — 3 comments

Author's posts listings

Oct
07

Fix for Xbox 360 freezing when logging in to Xbox Live

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Last night I was playing some online Battlefield: Bad Company when all of a sudden the console just froze, and I had to power cycle it. Worried that I’m starting a second cycle of Red Ring of Death again, I restarted the console, but the console froze *again* just as soon as my Gamertag managed …

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Sep
26

Spore review went live

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Oooh, just realised the review I did of Spore went live on IOLTechnology. I must say I enjoyed playing the game, and lots of people will find many, many hours of fun in playing alien-dressup and building/vehicle-building. Personally, I haven’t played it in over a week, will probably not go back to it either. But …

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Sep
12

Civilization: Revolution for XBox 360 review live

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I just got wind that my review of the very cool Sid Meier’s Civilization: Revolution for the XBox 360 is live over at www.ioltechnology.co.za I really liked playing this game, and will most-definitely be playing it more. It took me back to the simplicity of the earlier Civilization games, but also the complexity of the …

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Aug
12

A social experiment in smoking

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I smoked in high school. Just for a year. Peer pressure really, I wanted to be part of the “in” crowd. It didn’t work. The people I tried to be “in” with turned out to be complete and utter losers. Not because of the smoking, well, perhaps because of the smoking, but I wouldn’t attribute …

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Aug
06

Fixing Windows MBR with Ubuntu 8.04.1 Live-CD

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UPDATE: This works on Ubuntu 8.10 Live-CD too, just boot the livecd and execute the install-mbr command I’ve fixed MBRs before, using both the Windows install CD, and also using grub from an Ubuntu Live-CD. Today, neither of these worked on an HP 6710b laptop, where an Ubuntu partition (which contained grub) was removed (In …

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