I haven’t kept you up to date very well. It’s been 4 months since I last said anything of any note here. 4 months. Some might argue that I’ve not said anything of note here ever, but I’d like to … Continue reading
I’ve been meaning to set up SMTP, IMAP and POP3 access over SSL to my mail servers for quite a long time and the other day I just sat down and did it, it’s actually pretty easy once you know … Continue reading
I was bored this evening and I started playing around with some stuff I had lying around, like the USB Missile Launcher I bought in 2007, known as a Dream Cheeky Missle Launcher, for which I never found a GUI … Continue reading
At the weekend I was driving on an errand and I happened to pass PC World. While I’m not a fan of PC World particularly, I do like to drop in as I pass by to browse the laptops and … Continue reading
I’ve been pulling late nights at work on and off for around 4 or 5 days. Last night was one such night. Upgrades and updates dragged into the night with me waiting on standby to go in and do my … Continue reading
I bought an HP Proliant ML115 G5 server recently, it was a bargain for a good amount of processing power, albeit in an entry level tower server. It will live at my house and I’ve already supplemented it with 4 … Continue reading
I use ClamAV on my own mail servers, I’ve also used it at work alongside several commercial AV engines and every now and again there will be a viral attachment that none of the AV engines catch, especially when a … Continue reading
So, the financial world is collapsing around us. After house prices in UK have sky-rocketed for years, pricing core workers (doctors, nurses, ambulance crews, police and firefighters) and everyone beneath high earners out of the property market, we ‘re now … Continue reading
Every year, the Libre Graphics Meeting get together to discuss cool new stuff in the Free/Open Source graphics and image editing world and make plans to make them even better. One example of the outcome of this is that you … Continue reading
I thought I would point out that I keep coming around, after what feels like several lost hours, staring at my Linux desktop and not really knowing what just happened for the last few hours. It’s happened quite a few … Continue reading
It appears that Microsoft have won the FAT patent in the US at the third attempt. For non-computer people, FAT is a filesystem. A filesystem is just the way of your computer organise the files on the disk and there … Continue reading
Welcome to my new home. I dunno, I think it seems to happen about once a year, I get restless and start doing things. Last year it was setting up a blog and moving to Ubuntu, this year it’s buying … Continue reading
Wow. So some guys did some Linux video tutorials. I’ve been meaning to do something like this for ages. Well now I’ve missed the boat to be the first person to do it properly, but I should still pass on … Continue reading
I’ve always been a fan of geeky T-shirts since I bought a fsck T-shirt from rootshop, I now have a couple and it’s always fun to wear them around non-geeks. Now there is nerd.ws. If anyone is buying I can … Continue reading
Ubuntu Linux version 5.10 was released today. Go get yours from here.
Woo, I just came across the Novell Linux Desktop Usability Study results. These are video clips of normal people peforming simple tasks under Linux. What interests me here is not so much the usability issues that regular people have with … Continue reading
Ok everyone is on about it and it was only anncounced today, but I’m on Google Talk, the new Instant Messaging service from Google. You can add me – adamsweet@gmail.com please only do so if we have spoken before. You … Continue reading
Yeah, that’s me on the latest episode of LUG Radio, season 2 episode 23. Aq was away and so they asked me to fill in for the night. Nice one I have to say I was a little apprehensive about … Continue reading
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