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Worst Zombie Movie Ever
2007-12-04 00:00:00 Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane.... I'm a great fan of zombie movies but this was pretty poor. Poor enough in fact for me to post about it even when I've nothing good to say. Damn and blast you makers of this movie, what were you thinking! More About: Movie , Zombie
A Quick Look at the gOS Operating System
2007-11-26 00:00:00 Given the explosive arrival of Linux into the consumer desktop market, I thought it'd be interesting to check out the operating system at the heart of the best selling Walmart Linux PC. Let me introduce you to gOS. It's built on top of Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, but in choosing ... More About: System , Operating System , Quick , Operating , Quick Look
WOL over the internet
2007-11-22 00:00:00 I have recently been on a 'green' crusade through the house. I have a media server running Windows XP and GBPVR as a Personal Video Recorder, for the last year i have left this on 24/7/365 without much thought. I did all the normal things, power reduction by ... More About: Internet , The Internet
Vista Versus Gutsy - The Battle Continues
2007-10-30 00:00:00 Getting into work early this morning, I decided to have a brief look at what's going on in the world of IT. Despite feeling a bit fed up when I arrived, reading this excellent article on znet, written by Rupert Goodwin about his experiences of Gutsy really cheered me up! Have ... More About: Vista , Versus , Battle , Conti
Microsoft Invests in Linux Based Architecture
2007-10-30 00:00:00 You may have read in the news that Microsoft has invested $240m (£117m) in social networking site Facebook. Fear not freedom loving pals, as facebook runs on a Linux , Apache, MySQL and PHP based infrastructure! Indeed, despite the other major social networking site Myspace, running on a Windows Server 2003, SQL ... More About: Architecture
Waiting for IMAP on your Gmail Account?
2007-10-30 00:00:00 After hearing the news that Google had added IMAP to it's Gmail service, I was somewhat surprised to find that my account didn't seem to be set up for it. After fiddling a little I discovered that Google's IMAP service is language specific, and isn't enabled on UK English based accounts. Log ... More About: Waiting , Account , Wait
Bluetooth GPS on Ubuntu Gutsy
2007-10-17 00:00:00 Today we shall be playing with Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon and a dodgy bluetooth GPS gizmo bought for twenty odd quid on eBay.... First of all, note the extremely poor quality of the device and the way the power button sticks in when you press it too hard. Secondly, note the way ... More About: Bluetooth
Phonecalls and Texts to be Logged for Government
2007-10-01 00:00:00 Welcome to Airstrip One, where the Ministry of Love has just issued a new law instructing phone companies to log every call and text made to and from any phone in the country. Just to ensure that the information isn't wasted, it is to be made available not only to the ... More About: Government
Having Problems with Karoo? Internet Slow? Welcome!
2007-10-01 00:00:00 Early last week, under the careful guardianship of Karoo fair-deal-seeker Dylan, the Karoo Unofficial Forums opened its doors to the public. Almost immediately, the new forums began to see an influx of Karoo users ready to discuss their experiences of Hull's only Internet provider. If the first week is anything to ... More About: Problems , Slow
Just Remember - Piracy is Bad!
2007-09-23 00:00:00 If you pirate copyrighted material, you might as well go out and kill a policeman. But don't worry, the DMCA will catch up with you eventually! I know this is just a joke advert, but why do they put these on DVDs anyway. Surely if I were to copy a ... More About: Piracy
Downloading Batches of Photos from Flickr Using Ubuntu
2007-09-17 00:00:00 Like many people, I've got loads of photos stored over at Flick r . This is a sensible thing to do given my love of re-installing Linux every few minutes with total disregard for the files stored on my computer. That is, until I discovered that you can't actually print directly ... More About: Photos , Ubuntu , Batch
BSG: Beyond the Red Line on Ubuntu
2007-09-14 00:00:00 Battlestar Galactica: Beyond the Red Line is a 3D space combat simulation which takes place inside the Battlestar Galactica universe. The game is free, and the good folks over at Game Warden have also released a Linux client for it. Here's how to get it up and running on Ubuntu . 1> ...
Using NoMachine NX to Remotely Administer Ubuntu
2007-09-03 00:00:00 I set up a desktop the other day which I intend to store some files on. The problem is however, I usually use my laptop, and I'm too lazy to walk upstairs to the desktop. I've always just used ssh to administer servers through the command line, but in this case, ... More About: Ubuntu , Mach , Mote
Kingston Communications - You?ve Been Naughty?
2007-09-01 00:00:00 This ain't no technological breakdown, this is the road to Hull. KC is naughty, very naughty indeed. Not only will KC not share its toys with the other ISPs like it's supposed to - it hasn't been looking after its things either... Telling tales out of school, one cheeky chappie chips in ... More About: Communications , Kingston , Been , Naught
Watch the IT Crowd Tonight!
2007-08-25 00:00:00 Hey folks, the first episode of the second series of the IT Crowd airs tonight on Channel 4 at 21:30 - Be there, or be square! The Work Outing When the dashing Philip from the sixth floor pops in to ask Jen to the theatre, she accepts right away. But, to her ... More About: Watch , Tonight , Toni
Karoo Applies Massive Bandwidth Throttling to Customers
2007-08-24 00:00:00 Kingston Communications 'aka' Karoo are at it again. Welcome the horrors of a monopoly! I'm on the Karoo Max package and I'm currently having my connection shaped down to just under 1000 Kbps (as shown on Karoo's own test page). My ADSL connection is synchronised at 8128kbps so I thought ... More About: Customers , Bandwidth , Lies , Plies
Ubuntu Viral Videos
2007-08-24 00:00:00 Hi folks, I've been bashing this idea around on the marketing mailing list for a bit, but thought I'd come and shout about it here in case I'd missed anyone ;-) The idea is to raise the brand awareness of Ubuntu by using the power of viral marketing. We'd like to create ... More About: Videos , Viral
Protecting Against Server Attack
2007-08-18 00:00:00 Given the current fun and games with the community managed Ubuntu LoCo servers I've been thinking recently about server security. Personally, any web servers that I'd ever run in my 'day job' would never have remote administration services like SSH/FTP etc open to the web (and more often than not, ... More About: Server , Prot , Attack , Serve , Atta
Creating a Debian Package for Wifidog
2007-08-18 00:00:00 The more I use Debian and Ubuntu, the more I love it! I've just finished creating a Debian package for Wifidog after a conversation on the Ubuntu-UK mailing list, and some help and advice from Kirrus and Neil Greenwood (thanks guys). The thing that surprised me more than anything, is that it ... More About: Creating , Pack , Eating , Package
The IT Crowd is Back!
2007-08-11 00:00:00 Hoorah! Friday 24th August marks the return of The IT Crowd - Channel 4's scarily accurate comedy portrayal of life working in IT. Cue another few months of salesmen commenting on how similar our office is to 'that IT show thing of the telly...'. More About: Back
Canonical Announces Ubuntu for Dell in the UK
2007-08-09 00:00:00 That's right, Dell PCs with Ubuntu will be available in Europe from August 8th. Excellent More About: Canonical , The U , Anno
CPU Frequency Scaling in Ubuntu
2007-07-27 00:00:00 I've got a really noisy laptop with a really noisy CPU fan. It gets right on my nerves! After doing a bit of reading I found that CPU frequency scaling is quite easy to implement in Ubuntu . I'm using a Pentium 4 Mobile CPU, but I believe you should get the ... More About: Frequency
Marketing Ubuntu - Why we Need More Double Glazing Salesmen.
2007-07-27 00:00:00 Recently I've been involving myself with the task of marketing Ubuntu , which lead me to wonder why it is that Ubuntu isn't marketed very well in the first place. To understand the question I guess it'd be pertinent to look an operating system oriented company which markets itself quite well. Lets ... More About: Marketing , Double
Call for e-petitions to be debated in parliament
2007-07-06 00:00:00 Common sense at last - Gordon Brown has called for e-petitions to be debated in parliament. The current system seems a bit of a farce (OK a lot of a farce) as any responses tend to pay lip service to the concept and never actually address the petitioners issues. With the ... More About: Petitions , Call , Liam , Arli , Petit
Flooding Hits the East Riding
2007-06-30 00:00:00 ** Note - this post contains embedded video images. If you're reading it via a feed aggregator you'll need to visit the actual post at justuber.com to see them. Ah what fun, I've finally moved to my new house. It's got to have been one of the most stressful moves ever! ... More About: East , Hits , Flooding , Riding , Odin
Microsoft Distributes Ubuntu!
2007-06-24 00:00:00 I thought I'd eaten the wrong kind of mushrooms for breakfast this morning, imagine my amazement as I discovered that Microsoft has been distributing Ubuntu via its Windows Marketplace website for the past couple of days. Obviously, MS has taken the link down now but for a few golden moments ... More About: Bute , Tribute , Tribu
hosts.allow and hosts.deny missing in Ubuntu Feisty
2007-06-24 00:00:00 Strange I'd not noticed this before, but /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny are missing on my Feisty laptop and a basic install of Edgy server that I'm running. Turns out that they're missing due to bug in netbase which removed a dependency on tcpd (which in turn installs hosts.allow and hosts.deny). To get the ... More About: Ubuntu , Missing , Hosts , Allo
Converting a Webcam to Infrared
2007-06-24 00:00:00 Inspired by this post, I decided to have a bash at converting an old webcam to infrared. The camera was a cheapy Phillips (one with a lens that completely unscrews exposing the ccd). Don't use a camera that you care about. This process may knacker it! First the infrared filter needs to ... More About: Webcam , Infrared , Vert
Dell Says no to Ubuntu for Business Users
2007-06-21 00:00:00 Dell's at it again. A Slashdot user writes to explain why Dell wouldn't sell him a PC Dell cheerfully explained to the surprised caller that their Ubuntu PCs are offered to personal users only, and that they are not available for sale to businesses. Kick up a bit of fuss, it won't ... More About: Business , Dell , Users , Sine
Windows Vista DVD - Now With Added Irony
More articles from this author:2007-06-17 00:00:00 Reading the Window s Vista Team blog today I came across an article that made me chuckle. Nick White - a Microsoft product manager - describes how the images present in the DVD hologram are designed to make counterfeiting Vista more difficult: "...one of multiple images contained in the hologram design, all of ... More About: Windows Vista , Irony 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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