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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
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
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
Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas!
2007-01-02 01:02:01 Just wanted to place a quick post to wish anyone who might possibly be reading (Google Analytics seems to indicate at least someone other than me does!) a Merry Chris t mas and a Happy New Year. God Bless, Chris. More About: Merry Christmas
Pandora - open the box
2007-01-02 01:02:01 Hi all, I am not Chris... I am Adam... I thought I would try to muscle in on JustUber.com with a few of my own posts, that way I dont have to listen to Chris all the time. To start off with I will pass on a URL for you ... More About: Pandora , Open , Pando , Dora
Nintendo Wii Outsells PS3
2007-01-02 01:02:01 The Nintendo Wii has been a clear tech winner this Christmas outselling the Sony PS3 at a ratio of two to one. Being the lowest specification machine in the seventh generation console wars this comes at a little bit of a surprise to me. It seems that people perhaps, are not ... More About: Nintendo Wii , Tend , Sell
2007 - time to go Open Source?
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
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
Karoo Max Speed Test Results
2007-01-02 01:02:01 To see how my Karo o Max '8 Meg' connection performed I did a speed test over at speedtest.net. Click on the button below, take the test and post your results back to the comments section. Mine as you can see if rather poor. Am I alone or is everyone getting ... More About: Results , Speed , Test , Result
Quick Karoo Max Update
2007-01-02 01:02:01 In a quick update to the Karo o Max farce, the Karoo User Group reports that download speeds are getting better. A visit to the Karoo status page indicates ongoing maintenance to the ADSL network, so we can only hope Karoo are sorting their problems out. The Karoo User Group also writes: ... More About: Update , Quick
Karoo Broadband Max Farce
2007-01-02 01:02:01 Today, Kingston Communications 'upgraded' my line to their new 8Mbps Karoo Max offering. I signed up for the 'Option Three' tariff at £24.99 per month which involved agreeing to another 12 months of service. Oh, imagine my glee as I looked forward to downloading some nice shiny things to ... More About: Band , Broadband , Farc , Road , Farce
USB Missile Launcher Web Control Interface for Linux
2007-01-02 01:02:01 After learning about Scott Weston's fun and games with the usb-missile-launcher, I begged Father Christmas for one. Lo and Behold it came! The suggested method of unleashing said missiles at co-workers seemed to require the 'missile controller' to sit at the computer connected to the missile launcher. This method does however ... More About: Linux , Usb , Inter , Cher , Miss
Gmail Vunerable to Contact List Attack
2007-01-02 01:02:01 In a somewhat worrying article for Gmail users, a clever chap called Alex Bailey has described a way in which a sneaky website can steal a user's Gmail contact list . Clicking here shows how the exploit works, with the only requirement being you must be logged into Gmail at the ... More About: Mail , Contact , List , Attack
Say Hello to Henry and George
0000-00-00 00:00:00 I don't usually post much personal stuff but these two are cute! Henry and George are the newest editions to my household! More About: Hell , Hello
Support the NSPCC and Santa this Christmas
0000-00-00 00:00:00 For a suggested donation of a fiver the NSPCC will arrange for Santa to write a personalised message to a child of your choice and have it specially delivered by Rudolf. Cheap at half the price. What are you still reading this for? get over to www.nspccwishes.org.uk and order your letter ... More About: Christmas , Support
Getting Your Digital Photos Printed Online
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Recently I noticed that I've been amassing photos on my flickr account and not really doing anything with them. Its all very well to chronicle my sons growth from a baby into a little boy - but no fun if I can't show the piccies to non-computer-using Gran. I'd had a ... More About: Photos , Print , Online , Digital , Digi
How to use Bazaar and Launchpad for Hosting your Code
0000-00-00 00:00:00 I recently put some code up onto Launch pad (a superb open source software development tool from Canonical Limited), but it wasn't immediately apparent to me how to do it. I found tips on a few different websites, but thought I'd bring it all together here for convenience. First of all you'll ... More About: Hosting , Code , Host , Sting
Microsoft Can’t Pay Bollywood Enough Money to Use Windows
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Sunidhi Chauhan is a Bollywood playback singer. She was employed by Microsoft India to sing a song about Windows Vista - The Wow is Now! You can listen to it here or here. So what you may say? Well its another example of Microsoft marketing over function. Take a look at ... More About: Money , Wood
Exploring the Humax-HD Over the Network
More articles from this author:0000-00-00 00:00:00 I just updated my Humax-HD Freesat box to the 1.00.23 firmware and decided to have a furtle with it. As this update is supposed to enable iPlayer (although it can't be used until Freesat say so) I thought I'd try and see if anything funky was going on over the ... More About: Network , Exploring 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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