Move Linux Mint Root Partition
I recently added a new disk drive to my workstation and, as part of reorganising, wanted to move the Linux Mint root partition from one disk to another. Naturally I googled duckied it and found a certain amount of useful info. I used gnuparted to copy the partition from one disk to another. The standard method to reinstall grub on a partition so it will boot appears to be to mount it and use grub-install with the –boot-directory option like this.
Read more →Fried Rice
This is our version of Chinese take-away fried rice. Use whatever meat and vegetables are in the larder. Tasty meal for four Ingredients 2 onions, chopped 2 cloves of garlic, chopped 2 carrots, grated 1/4 white cabbage, thinly sliced 1 1/2 cups of easy cook rice 250g chopped gammon ham 100g cooked prawns 100g petit pois 1 3/4 cups water or stock Vegetable oil Method Put a large dollop of oil into a large skillet or wok.
Read more →Pan fried lamb’s liver, bacon and chorizo
Back in the mid 70’s, I had to do some work at Kingston upon Thames Power Station. When I stopped for lunch, I found a little Greek restaurant opposite in a parade of shops and restaurants. That whole area, including the power station has since been redeveloped, and bears no resemblance. I had their lunch time offer of pan fried kidneys, probably with rice. When I got home, I mentioned this to she who did most of the cooking at that time and she came up with something which became her kidney special.
Read more →Handlers in Android
Using a handler to return results from a worker thread This has taken me quite a while to put together. There are throw-away remarks in the Android docs about this, but no useful examples. You want to get the results back from a worker thread to your main activity so you can do stuff with them. There are several parts to this. The main activity implements Handler.Callback, and has a handleMessage function.
Read more →Chorizo Egg and Tomato Toasted Sandwich
This is a nice snack for two. Ingredients Two eggs Sliced chorizo or crispy bacon Four slices of bread Tomato thinly sliced Cheese sliced Method Toast two slices of bread and fry two eggs Meanwhile slice the tomato thinly Flip the eggs, otherwise the tomato won’t stay on top Layer chorizo slices, egg, tomato slices and cheese slices on each piece of toast Put the toast slices on heatproof plates and put under a hot grill to melt the cheese Toast the other two slices of bread When the cheese is melted take the plates out and press down the other slices of toast on top Slice the sandwiches in two diagonally
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