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The Freedom March
2007-06-10 00:00:00 LugRadio Live 2007: be there! More About: Freedom , March , Marc
Night Shot
2007-06-10 00:00:00 Night Shot Originally uploaded by leftcase I don't share a lot of photography stuff here, but for some reason this picture appeals to me (even if it doesn't to you!) An eerie layer of mist hangs over the back field. The shutter speed was set to three seconds for these shots. I'm going ... More About: Night
Robot Bear to Help Injured Soldiers
2007-06-10 00:00:00 BBC News is carrying an article today about VECNA Technologies latest project, The BEAR: Battlefield Extraction and Retrieval Robo t . The BEAR is designed to enter into dangerous situations to retrieve injured soldiers, carrying them to safety in its forklift truck like arms. Bizarrely the robot features a teddy bear like head, ... More About: Soldiers , Sold , Bear
Transcoding/Video Conversion in Linux
2007-06-02 00:00:00 Yesterday evening I found myself needing to convert some video data from an .avi format to vcd, so it seemed as good a time as any to explore what Linux has to offer. The most useful resource I came across was the videohelp.com Linux video tools listings which give a great ... More About: Video , Trans , Sion , Conversion
Hacking isn?t Just for the Elite Anymore
2007-06-02 00:00:00 As computer networks become a key component of our lives, the technical skills entry barrier to on-line criminality is getting lower. Powerful tools such as the anti-forensic software used to defeat forensic analysis - once the realm of the uber l337 *nix hackers - have filtered down the food chain ... More About: Elite
Google Image Labeler
2007-05-26 00:00:00 Bored? - Have a few minutes to spare? Why not have a play with Googl e Image Labeler. The Google Image Labeler project is designed to help better improve the relevance of image results returned through google image search. From Google: "You'll be randomly paired with a partner who's online and using the ... More About: Abel
WiFi Fried my Brain! (Wireless Internet Health Risks)
2007-05-24 00:00:00 There is quite a bit of flak flying about at the moment regarding WiFi and the potential health risks it may present. The Daily Telegraph and BBC's Panorama suggest WiFi may have adverse health effects; with The Guardian labelling Panorama's research as "grossly unscientific". Given the wide range of opinions on ... More About: Internet , Health , Wireless , Wifi , Wire
Microsoft Expands on Alleged Patent Breaches
2007-05-17 00:00:00 Linux Format is running with the Micro soft patent story today. Microsoft is opening up a little into the detail of the alleged patent infringement. Namely MS have outlined these breaches. "Free Linux software violates 42 patents. Graphical user interfaces, the way menus and windows look on the screen, breach 65. E-mail ... More About: Reach , Breach , Patent
Microsoft Maps Strategy to get FOSS Users to Pay Royalities
2007-05-16 00:00:00 Slashdot is running with the Micro soft patent infringement story again... The key story from CNN states: "Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith and licensing chief Horacio Gutierrez sat down with Fortune recently to map out their strategy for getting FOSS users to pay royalties. Revealing the precise figure for the first ... More About: Strategy , Maps , Trat
Battlestar Galactica Back for Fourth Series
2007-05-12 00:00:00 Contrary to comments made by Edward Olmos (Admiral Adama) about the impending end of the Battle star Galactica series, a fourth series is to be filmed. Executive Producer David Eick told The Sci-Fi Channel that the fourth series will include 22 episodes and stated: "For those of you who have been paying ... More About: Series , Back , Four
ATI Commiting to Fix its Open Source Issues
2007-05-11 00:00:00 A quick glance over at slashdot today shows a glimpse of hope on the horizon for Linux users of ATI graphics cards. An ATI marketing spokesman announced on stage at the Red Hat summit that ATI has issues with Open Source and and that they are committed to fixing them. Watch this ... More About: Issues , Open-Source
Microsoft Complains about Google, DoubleClick Monopoly
2007-04-20 00:00:00 I had to chuckle when I read this article on The Register. "Microsoft is calling for regulator action to stop Google and DoubleClick merging, saying the deal would be anti-competitive if it went through." Oh the irony...... More About: About , Soft , Microsoft C
Life on Mars - Spin off Series
2007-04-13 00:00:00 If you - like me felt slightly sad after the last episode of the excellent 'Life on Mars ' TV series, you'll no doubt be interested to hear that the BBC has commissioned a spin off series named 'Ashes to Ashes'. Set in 1981, Ashes to Ashes brings back the popular character ... More About: Series , Spin , Spin-Off
Vista Sales Disappointing Despite Microsoft Spin
2007-04-02 00:00:00 Microsoft is touting Vista as the best-selling version of WIndows ever. MS point towards 17 million copies of Windows XP sold in the first two months of 2002 (its consumer release date), against 20 million copies of Vista in the first month of its release to support these claims. When taken at ... More About: Microsoft , Sales , Sale , Soft
PC, Mac and Linux
2007-03-26 00:00:00 Novell has released two adverts satirising the Mac intosh ads that are doing the rounds at the moment. Not too bad an idea I suppose, we just need something like this for Ubuntu now! More About: Linux
Setting up a System for Public Wireless Internet Access
2007-03-26 00:00:00 I thought I'd do something half useful today, and put together all of the instructions/notes etc I'd written about putting together a free public wireless access system using WiFiDog (link at the bottom of this post). If you are an organisation (or even an individual I guess), wanting to provide ... More About: Internet , Wireless , System , Public , Inter
Setting up a Transparent Proxy on Ubuntu Server 6.06 LTS
2007-03-26 00:00:00 For the past couple of days I've been playing with Ubuntu Server and transparent proxying. What fun! If you, like me work for a business/organisation which offers free wireless internet to the public (or even if you leave your home network open) you would be wise to keep an eye on ... More About: Roxy , Trans , Proxy
SUSE Style Gnome Menu on Ubuntu Edgy
2007-03-12 00:00:00 When testing out OpenSUSE not so long ago, I was pretty impressed with the function and usability of the gnome menu bundled with the distro. I wrongly assumed this was something specific to SUSE but happily, I've been proved wrong. The package that gives this functionality is available straight from the ... More About: Ubuntu , Men , Style , Menu , Suse
Installing the ?Project Looking Glass? 3D Desktop on Ubuntu
2007-02-26 13:43:01 Project Looking Glass is an open source development project which evolved from a Sun Microsystems advanced technology experiment. In a nutshell, Project Looking Glass is a 3D desktop environment which aims to rethink the traditional way in which users interact with computers. Its based around java and looks to ... More About: Desktop , Ubuntu , Project , Alli , Tall
Need a Mobile Command Post for World Domination?
2007-02-20 01:38:03 Or my personal favorite, a Hagglund BV206 (just £6,500), ideal for rugged terrain and extreme climatic conditions. You can now swing on over to the Ministry of Defence Disposal Services Agency website for a bargain. The MoD opened its auction website on Sunday offering a range of used military equipment ... More About: Mobile , World , Post , Nation , Need
The WoW is Now! - Microsoft India Corporate Anthem - Worst Song Ever?
2007-02-13 13:34:01 Microsoft India have released a wonderful corporate anthem celebrating the uberness that is Windows Vista. (Behold - The usage of sarcasm!) You can access it by following the links repeatedly mentioning WoW! on the Microsoft India website, or by clicking here for the version stored at justuber.com And remember - "...don't even ... More About: Microsoft , Wow , Song , Corporate
MP3 on openSUSE - 5 Minute Fix
2007-02-10 01:32:01 Unlike its commercial cousin SUSE, openSUSE doesn't come with proprietary and/or patent encumbered software due to legal restrictions. This happens to be a bit of a nuisance, as most of us like to play DVDs and MP3s on our computers without having to bugger about too much getting it going. This ... More About: Open , Pens , Minute , Suse
Host a Home Linux Web Server on Windows & VMWare
2007-01-25 13:20:01 What follows in an light introduction aimed at new users wanting to run their own home servers. Please feel free to contribute. To host or not to host, that is the question! Whether or not to host your web site from a home Linux server depends on why you actually want ... More About: Windows , Web Server , Wind , Home
More reasons why Vista Looks Crap
2007-01-24 01:18:07 Most businesses don't seem to be that enthused about upgrading to Vista , at least until the first service pack is released. That's a bugger for Microsoft, what can they do? Behold Windows Vista Service Pack 1 due for release second half of this year ! But what pray tell is addressed in ... More About: Crap , Reason , Reasons , More
Robot Nurses to Clean Up the Wards
2007-01-23 01:18:02 It is with more than a little amusement I read today about plans to introduce robotic nurses to the wards within the next three years. Scientists from the universities of War wick, Cardiff, Dublin and Newcastle are among the various boffins taking part in the EU sponsored "IWARD" project which aims ... More About: The War , Robot , Lean , Clean
Sweet, looks like another series of the most excellent IT Cr
2007-01-16 13:14:01 Sweet, looks like another series of the most excellent IT Crowd is to air on Channel 4 sometime after summer. John Hoare of the Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews fansite 'Standard Nerds' has picked over Graham Linehan's blog to divulge the information. Given the uberness of the last series I hope ... More About: Series , Other , Cell , Sweet , Elle
Groklaw has a nice little article about the EU Commission's
2007-01-13 13:12:01 Groklaw has a nice little article about the EU Commission 's report into the costs of migrating to Open Source software. "Costs to migrate to an open solution are relevant and an organization needs to consider an extra effort for this. However these costs are temporary and mainly are budgeted in less ... More About: Article , About , Miss , Little
Just a quick post today. I found that dns resolution was awf
2007-01-13 13:12:01 Just a quick post today. I found that dns resolution was awfully slow on my girlfriends Ubuntu Edgy laptop. Here's a quick fix that worked for me - hopefully it'll work for you. Open up /etc/resolv.conf - it may look like this... search localnet nameserver 192.168.20.1 nameserver 212.50.12.2 nameserver 213.249.3.22 Remove the nameserver line that corresponds ... More About: Post , Today , Just , Hat , Quick
Update Flash on Firefox - Ubuntu Edgy
2007-01-02 01:02:01 I had some problems with Google Analytics and a few other websites on Ubuntu Edgy. For anyone else who has similar problems give this a try. Grab the standard install. The default one I had set up seemed to be missing some fonts required as dependencies. This sorted it. $ sudo apt-get ... More About: Flash , Firefox , Update , Fire
2007 - time to go Open Source?
More articles from this author:2007-01-02 01:02:01 Well Chris has done it, in fact he has done it every where he can slip it in. "Oh er missus" i hear you say, but no, put that thought back where it should be, i am talking about Ubuntu (or Kubuntu). Chris has been an advocate for Linux for some ... More About: Open Source , Time , Open , Source , Open-Source 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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