I’ve used Ubuntu on my desktops/laptops and netbook for some time now. I think my first installation was 6.06 (the version 6.04 which was late by two months) and my desktops currently all run 10.04 LTS. I got over the minor irritation of the move of the window control buttons from the top right to …
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the latest from El Reg
- Dish Networks locks horns with broadcasters over ad skipping 2012/05/19
- SpaceX Dragon chokes at the last second 2012/05/19
- Ten... Qwerty mobiles 2012/05/19
- Microsoft to devs: Don't ruin Win 8 launch with crap code 2012/05/18
- Apache OpenOffice security fixes emerge 2012/05/18
- Facebook jumps then slumps in first few minutes day's trade 2012/05/18
- What's on the cards at EMC's casino royale next week? 2012/05/18
- Call of Duty hacker jailed after meatspace burglary 2012/05/18
- Next UK gov CloudStore lumbers online 2012/05/18
- Does Britain really need a space port? 2012/05/18
- HP pumps cash into EVA range capacity boost 2012/05/18
- RIM-Moto sketch THIRD nanoSIM design as peace offering 2012/05/18
- Ethernet sales slump punches Brocade in the wallet 2012/05/18
- ICO on new Cookie Law: 'Don't expect torrent of enforcement action' 2012/05/18
- UK.gov: ICT in schools ain't dead, it's just resting 2012/05/18
- UK prosecutions for hacking appear to be be dropping 2012/05/18
Category Archive: free software
Jan 04 2011
critical security update to wordpress
This blog comes to you courtesy of those excellent free open source authors who have contributed to wordpress. Unfortunately, in common with all software, wordpress inevitably has some bugs. Worse, some of the those bugs can occasionally be sufficiently bad as to make the software vulnerable to remote exploitation by ne’er do wells and other …
Sep 12 2010
a graphical web of trust
I recently stumbled upon sig2dot, a gpg/pgp keyring graph generator. In fact this seems to have been around for some time, but I’d never come across it before. It can be used to generate a graph of all of the signature relationships in a GPG/PGP keyring, and, like other visualisation tools, this graphical image producing …
May 02 2010
ubuntu 10.04 – minor, and some not so minor, irritations
If and when the teething problems in 10.04 are fixed and the distro looks stable enough to supplant my current preferred version, I will be faced with one or two usability issues. In this version, canonical have taken some design decisions which seem to have some of the fanbois frothing at the mouth. The most …
May 02 2010
ubuntu 10.04 problems
The lastest LTS version of ubuntu (10.04, or lucid lynx according to your naming preferences) was released to an eagerly waiting public on 29 April. Long term support (LTS) versions are supported for three years on the desktop and five years on the server instead of the usual 18 months for the normal releases. My …
Mar 21 2010
psp video revisited
I last posted about ripping DVDs to PSP format back in November 2007. Since then I have used a variety of different mechanisms to transcode my DVDs to the MP4 format preferred by my PSP. A couple of years ago I experimented with both winff and a command line front end to ffmpeg called handbrake. …
Jan 23 2010
life is too short to use horde
I own a bunch of different domains and run a mail service on all of them. In the past I have used a variety of different ways of providing mail, from simple pop/imap using dovecot and postfix, through to using the database driven mail service in egroupware. Recently I have consolidated mail for several of …
Jan 22 2010
tor server compromise
According to this post by Roger Dingledine, two tor directory servers were compromised recently. In that post Dingledine said: In early January we discovered that two of the seven directory authorities were compromised (moria1 and gabelmoo), along with metrics.torproject.org, a new server we’d recently set up to serve metrics data and graphs. The three servers …
Nov 11 2009
OSS shouldn’t frighten the horses
Since I first read that Nokia were adding much needed telephony capability to their N8x0 range of internet tablets I have been watching the development of the new Nokia N900 with much interest. It looks to be potentially the sort of device I would buy. Despite all the hype around the iPhone, I really dislike …
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