Author: sroot
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A Dawn Like Thunder (Douglas Reeman)
I saw this in the second hand bookshop and it brought back memories of when I was growing up. Douglas Reeman has writen a lot of fiction about the Navy in World War 2 and I remember reading abridged versions of them in Readers Digests compendiums (the consolidated 4 books in to one slightly larger…
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Issac Assimov's Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation
Consuming many hours of my time lately has been a science fiction series written by Issac Assimov. I picked the books up for a few pounds in second hand bookshop and the thing that convinced me to buy was a preface in one written by Arthur C Clarke. I’d been reading and enjoying a lot…
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Boot from DVD (bios setting)
I’ve been trying to install Fedora from DVD but couldn’t get the machine to read the DVD when it booted. I kept thinking it was a BIOS setting I had wrong (I could only choose ‘CD’ as a boot option). Eventually, I tried a bootable CD and that wouldn’t work either. The problem all along…