ubuntu repair
Jan 25th
A friend of mine had a problem with her ubuntu upgrade which left her machine unable to boot. Surprise surprise, there was no backups and loads of photos of the kids on the harddrive.
so, after trying a few things this is what worked for me.
boot ubuntu 9.10 install disk and “try ubuntu without making changes”
plugin removable drive (in this case my 200gb external)
now, while it may look like you can just copy the files over in the file manager you can’t because you do not own the files, you need to be “root”
goto Applications > Accessories > Terminal on the top menu.
in the terminal type
sudo /bin/bash
now you are root, you can fire up the file manager
at the prompt type
nautilus
A file manager window will appear that has the right permissions to copy things over to the external drive.
The Low Road
Dec 2nd
The Low Road
What can they do to you?
Whatever they want..
They can set you up, bust you,
they can break your fingers,
burn your brain with electricity,
blur you with drugs till you
can’t walk, can’t remember.
they can take away your children,
wall up your lover;
they can do anything you can’t stop them doing.
How can you stop them?
Alone you can fight, you can refuse.
You can take whatever revenge you can
But they roll right over you.
But two people fighting back to back
can cut through a mob
a snake-dancing fire
can break a cordon,
termites can bring down a mansion
Two people can keep each other sane
can give support, conviction,
love, massage, hope, sex.
Three people are a delegation
a cell, a wedge.
With four you can play games
and start a collective.
With six you can rent a whole house
have pie for dinner with no seconds
and make your own music.
Thirteen makes a circle,
a hundred fill a hall.
A thousand have solidarity
and your own newsletter;
ten thousand community
and your own papers;
a hundred thousand,
a network of communities;
a million our own world.
It goes one at a time.
It starts when you care to act.
It starts when you do it again
after they say no.
It starts when you say we
and know who you mean;
and each day you mean
one more.
- Marge Piercy
the state of things
Aug 25th
Lets start with debt, the youth of today are in debt just by being born, quite a feat considering the decision making generation of today enjoyed so many benefits of the post war era, cheap food, cheap clothes, cheap oil and have spent it all on themselves. If a young person decides to go to college or university they get a student loan and more personal debt.
I left school in 1988, when the acid house music scene was just starting, this was a great time in many young peoples lives, dancing together with no violence taking place seems far fetched these days but it happened, the only violence I saw was from the police breaking up the parties, new laws were made to make parties illegal. The parties changed and became fewer and farther away, so we got a cheap car, these days with the new law that gives car companies £2000 for selling a new car has made old cars that young people would buy worth far more than many can afford.
So after a few years of parties has I progressed into my early 20’s I could see the environmental degradation happening around the world, and thought I should do whatever I can to stop it. When I found other people who felt the same way, we started to protest about forests being cut down for roads, many of you know what happened next, the government made new laws to make many types of protest illegal. Laws that are still being used and abused.
So we are in a situation where youth of today are hassled and harassed for wearing hoodies, not having jobs and binge drinking by MPs who all wear clothes from the 17th century, have second jobs and have a 24 hour bar subsidised by the public. Not to mention the £400 a month they get to spend on food, when I know whole families that have to feed and clothe themselves on less than that.
If that was not enough companies are now not taking on young people and youth unemployment rising fast, what exactly do the decision making generation expect people like me and younger to do? When all we can see is them robbing my children’s future so that they can get rich and live a luxurious life, while normal hard working people suffer from ever rising prices for food, heating and petrol.
It makes you wonder why we all pretend that the government works for the people, when it clearly works for the bankers, oil companies, Agribusiness and themselves.
So, lets have a really good look where we are, peak oil, some very serious food issues, major environmental issues. While things like this are being discussed else where on the net, there are not that many solutions, let alone agreements .
so, while I tend to my garden and look after my children, I will decide exactly how I want to live and how I can look after my kids in these times, and I wonder what part of my life that are going to make illegal next ?
Film Trailer – THEY CALL IT ACID
Aug 25th
“From the forthcoming film, THEY CALL IT ACID. The story of Acid House – the birth of Rave. The culture the Government failed to crush! Featuring over 60 interviews including the world’s top DJs and rare archive film from the first illegal Acid House parties. …”
The worst thing about ████████████ expenses is that ██ ████ have been ████████
Jun 19th
The worst thing about ████████████ expenses is that ██ ████ have been ████████.
This makes █████████ harder ██ ████ have ████████ on.
They have been released in PDF format with huge sections missing, the information needs to be in XML so that people can use the data in a meaningful way.
So if they wont do it, look like we will have to do it ourselves http://www.whattheyclaimed.com/index.php/about/getinvolved
Not only do the expenses need to be open but for everything in parliament for example http://www.theyworkforyou.com/freeourbills/
lets redesign and remix democracy
only a protest vote ?
May 27th
During my campaigning quite a few people have stated that a vote for the juryteam is only a protest vote. So my answer is “so what if it is?”
Protest has shaped this democracy in so many ways it is hard to imagine what the UK and the world would look like without protests. Would women have got the vote without protests from the suffragettes ? How about slavery? Trade Unions? The Diggers? Tiananmen Square ? New road anyone ? Martin Luther King ? miners strikes ?
OK, some protests are more successful than others but they have shaped the country and the world. Protest vote? maybe, but protest is good !
The party’s over its time to call it day
May 14th
This poem arrived from the juryteam candidates mail list. it says so much, so well
The party’s over its time to call it day
Oh can I claim for balloons or maybe the tunes my cleaner might play
My moat is clear now, I’ve flipped my house
The porns not mine dear it was my spouse
The party’s over cos two brains light bulbs went dim
It will be horribly missed the John Lewis list
And the puppy must slim
Oh what a caper, some rotten hack,
We’re in the paper and getting flack
Maybe its time now to pay some backThe party’s over yes time to call it a day
A solider loses a limb, a pittance for him is all they will pay
Pensioners’ rise is 25p
Home repossessions Child poverty
The party’s over two million plus on the dole
But lets not worry ’bout them those women and men but lets find the mole
Why did we do it? We had no need
The people see it as simply greed
Oh yes its over indeedThe party’s over and our poor country is broke
And none of them will confess that they all made this mess
More pay – what a joke
As for the children why can’t they see
A massive debt is their legacy
The party’s over no votes for red or for blues
The commons now is so hushed
And sorrows are drowned in subsidised booze
Keep your contrition surely the end
No rules were broken you made them bend
So its over, really over my friend.CM The Queen of Doggerel
wriiten by Celia McClure, Juryteam Candidate
but who made the rules ?
May 9th
With these MPs and their expensive expenses claims, they all seen to be saying that they “were within the rules” but these are the people that made the rules, so why are people acting surprised that they have gold plated their lives? These claims have been deemed “not unusual” or “out of order” by Labour MP Sir Stuart Bell, well of course they are not to him, but they are bang out of order and very unusual to everyday people. I have worked in many places but never had a job where I could claim for getting my house cleaned, feeding the cat or indeed worked in a place with a 24 hour unlicensed bar.
These people have been using taxpayers money for decades to live a unsustainable lifestyle based on over consumption, image and a Victorian sense of superiority.
So I ask the older generation of voters and normal people, why have you let this happen ? it has been happening for years and yes we are about to stop it, it is all about to change, but why the wait ?
