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Hull Beats Bristol to Reach Premier League
2008-05-25 00:00:00 This is just a quick post to say well done to Hull City AFC for achieving promotion to the premier league! The city of Hull is currently undergoing a period of regeneration unprecedented in it's long history. Previously a prosperous fishing town, Hull is fighting back against economic decline and trying ... More About: Bristol , League , Beats , Reach
Microsoft Office 2007 to Support ODF
2008-05-25 00:00:00 I just read this on Slashdot and wondered what people thought of this seemingly bizarre move from MS? After campaigning for OOXML so vigorously, MS have now announced that they will be issuing an update to Office 2007 to add support for OASIS ODF 1.1. This won't be available as the default ... More About: Microsoft , Microsoft Office , Support , Office 2007
Valve?s Source Engine Coming to Linux?
2008-05-12 00:00:00 Some exciting news coming from the Phoronix website suggests that Valve may be porting the Source engine to Linux . The Source engine powers many of Valve's top titles including Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life 2, Day of Defeat: Source, Portal, and Team Fortress 2. Linux support for Source is likely to increase the ... More About: Engine
BBC iPlayer on Xbox Media Centre (XBMC)
2008-05-06 00:00:00 Want iPlayer on your telly but don't have a Wii? Check out this very useful script for the Xbox Media Centre . The script allows you to download programs from the BBC iPlayer service to an old Xbox (or Linux or Windows PC) with XBMC installed, and watch them at your ...
Hardy Heron and Stuff?..
2008-04-28 00:00:00 Hello there. I can't believe it's been nearly a month since I wrote anything. Recently I've found myself pre-occupied with other things so I've been neglecting you. I'm sorry! There has been a major change in the Ubuntu landscape since the last time I put finger to keyboard. Hardy Heron has ... More About: Stuff , Hardy Heron
Ubuntu Survives PWN to OWN Hackfest Unscathed
2008-03-29 23:00:00 A laptop running Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10) remained the only uncompromised system at the CanSecWest conference PWN to OWN competition. The competition sees hackers compete to discover a 0 day code execution vulnerability, on one of three laptops running Mac OSX, Windows Vista or Ubuntu. The winners take the pwned laptop ...
Authenticating an Ubuntu PC to Active Directory
2008-03-23 00:00:00 Likewise Open is a piece of software designed to make it easier to integrate Linux PC's into an Microsoft Windows Active Directory (AD) domain. Now you can log onto your Ubuntu PC using your Windows network username and password, and access your shared files and resources whilst logging on only ... More About: Active Directory
Why Ubuntu Needs to Charge for (some) Software
2008-02-19 00:00:00 Now before you fire up your trusty keyboard to shoot me down in flames for suggesting this. I want you to think about the continuing challenges that Ubuntu (and Linux in general) face as they compete against Microsoft for a share of the desktop OS market. A good place to start ... More About: Software , Charge
Karoo Customers Speak Out
2008-02-09 00:00:00 Hull for those of you who don't know - it is a city which is trying really hard. Hull is working its arse off to drag itself out of economic and social decline and to establish itself as a 'top 10 digital city'. After years of treating this as back ... More About: Customers , Speak
Modifying the Xbox . Installing a Softmod and Xbox Media Centre
2008-02-03 00:00:00 First of all the sombre warning. Don't rush into this, read around. Use this article as a basic guide and check around on the 'net for more info to pad it out. You can totally knacker your Xbox by softmodding it if you're not careful. This is my experience of ... More About: Media , Centre
Modifying the Xbox . Installing a Bigger Hard Drive
2008-02-03 00:00:00 Again, the standard disclaimer. This like any other type of mod can jigger your Xbox ! This time round though the risk is slightly less. If you make a mistake on your new hard drive it's not the end of the world. You should be able to replace the original drive again ... More About: Drive , Hard , Hard Drive
Modifying the Xbox . Making a USB Cable
2008-01-28 00:00:00 I'm thinking of turning my Xbox into a media centre, it isn't used much any more so it might as well become useful (or die trying). I don't have a mod chip, I don't want to take the Xbox to bits (and I'm too tight to pay someone else ... More About: Cable
Creating HDR Images in Ubuntu
2008-01-21 00:00:00 Wikipedia tells us that "high dynamic range imaging (HDRI) is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of exposures (the range of values between light and dark areas) than normal digital imaging techniques." Phew... Chris 'o' pedia would read something more like "HDR images look really cool. You can ... More About: Ubuntu , Images , Creating , Ages
BBC Goes Web 2.0ish
2008-01-18 00:00:00 The BBC have quietly made public their new web 2.0 style homepage. It looks good, but under Ubuntu + Firefox I´m finding it pretty slow. Personally I see a performance hit when trying to drag a content box. Id find it interesting to discover whether or not this is because ...
Why Use an Open Source Licence?
2008-01-14 00:00:00 OK, imagine if you will, that I suddenly developed uber programming skills and coded a great application for - lets say - keeping track of properties in an estate agency. At this point I'm faced with a couple of choices (but please add more if you think of any): 1) Provide my ... More About: Open Source , Open , Source , Open-Source , Licence
Facebook Confuses Me
2008-01-12 00:00:00 What on earth is the difference between 'Funwall' and 'Superwall', and why do I keep using Facebook when it's so bloody dodgy in the first place?
Pandora, I?ll be Back?
2008-01-12 00:00:00 Don't you just love it when the small guy socks it to 'The Man'? In the few days since Pandora closed its doors to UK listeners, a website has been created to circumvent Pandora's IP address blocking scheme. As you'd expect, the owner of the globalpandora.com site has registered the domain anonymously. ... More About: Back
New project - Symfony based website
2008-01-04 00:00:00 Hi there, This is not Chris, but Adam writing.. I am embarking on a small project to design and build a web-app using the Symfony MVC framework and thought it may be of some benefit to someone somewhere... I am not the Worlds best coder but thought it would be ... More About: Website , Project
Ubuntu Needs to Respond Faster.
2007-12-25 00:00:00 Ubuntu, as we all know is a great operating system. Its built on the solid foundations of Debian, it has a vibrant and helpful community and a multimillionaire astronaut as a sugar daddy. Things are good. Ubuntu aims to be 'the' definitive Linux distribution for 'the rest of us'. A ... More About: Ubuntu , Aster , Needs
BBC iPlayer for Linux is Go (Well, Sort Of?)
2007-12-18 00:00:00 Eagle eyed Andy Lockran has noticed that the promised BBC iPlayer support for Linux has emerged. Although currently delivered using Flash, the quality isn't all that bad and some effort seems to have been made to get it looking 'right'. Thanks for keeping your promises BBC. We appreciate it. More About: Sort
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
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
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
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
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!
More articles from this author: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 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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