Geekness
*Page still in construction*
I'll admit it straight away, I'm an Open Source fanatic. I have been using various flavours of Linux for several years now and the only version of Windows I use is within a virtual machine and is used only to test designs in Internet Explorer or play with other potentially interesting software. Still, I understand enough about operating systems that I am the friends and family tech guru. Does that mean I know how to use Excel? No. Does it mean that I can recover all your data on what looks like a lost machine, recover your system and have your OS of choice running faster than it did when it came out of the box? More likely a yes.
Rigs
For some reason or other I decided to make a page dedicated to my setups.
Top Software Apps
Though I'm a Gnome user, I do love the KDE app Amarok for managing my music collection. Though it is currently a Linux only bit of kit, it will be available for Windows users as part of the port of KDE to the Windows platform
The Gimp is a fantastic image creation and manipulation tool. I find it indispensable in creating websites. Also available for Windows with the GTK toolkit
Though I have tried many GUI ftp clients, I always come back to Filezilla, especially now it has been ported to the unix platform.
One of the unsung heroes from the Mozilla foundation, Thunderbird is just fantastic. It is also extendable (like Firefox), so you can make it do as you choose.
And...
Yes, this is in construction. I plan on discussing methods of encrypting your own traffic. Ways to get the most out of old boxes ... and anything else I can think of that interests me :)