Firstly, my apologies for missing last weeks post. I was having a delightful holiday in Italy with various members of my family and the g/f. Lovely it was, we stayed in a Trullo and a fun time was had by all. Before I left I got myself a new computer, a netbook of the EeePC 901 variety. After consideration of … Read the remaining 519 words

Just a quick and easy one this time! At least once a week I get called up to fix a computer and it’s almost always the same thing; spyware. So here is the usual rundown on how I approach a fix. First thing I (almost) always say: No, there is no need to wipe your computer, we can just clean … Read the remaining 610 words

I saw this comment on slashdot by http://slashdot.org/~Sancho and it made me chuckle. Please bear in mind that this is a *very* geeky joke. Linux is ok on the desktop, but for servers, I really prefer FreeBSD. Sometimes I get tired of that, and use NetBSD for a while. A short stint with NetBSD, Apache, Postgresql, and PHP usually refreshes … Read the remaining 15 words

I’m very excited today after winning an auction last night on eBay. I’d decided that I needed a computer as doing graphic work and generally pouring through code is hard work on this little laptop. What I needed was a mighty box, which is what I’ve now just bought. The specs on this beast are as follows; intel core2 quad … Read the remaining 71 words

Those lovely guys at EA have open-sourced the SimCity code for use on OLPC, except the actual name SimCity, which we must now call Micropolis. I’m afraid to say that it’s only available for Linux at the moment but I’m sure its only a matter of time till someone ports it to Windows. For the time being the .deb can … Read the remaining 17 words

These machines aren’t all fun fun fun, sometimes you have to use them for some more serious work. In this post I’m going to tell you how to make your own php/mysql web development environment on your own Ubuntu desktop. Once you’ve done this you won’t need to keep uploading files to your server just to check if something works. … Read the remaining 379 words