October 29, 2018 Nasty Nouveau problem I had a problem with X.org using way too much shared memory with the Nouveau driver. The shared…
August 31, 2018 Is secure boot becoming mandatory? The gift that keeps on… is now making it difficult for me to install Linux on it. Back in the good old days you…
August 12, 2018 Display manager bug I noticed this display manager bug in KaOS. The default DM has the month number generated alongside the month name. Let’s see what happens.
May 31, 2018 Korora’s on ice I have one system with the Fedora-based Korora installed on it. This month the maintainers decided to take a break from developing the distro….
April 30, 2018 New Ubuntu release, old PC donated I scratched together a working desktop from old components lying around the house. With the release of Kubuntu 18.04 she’s as good as new….
March 31, 2018 USB headset usability Hot on the heels of my last post about USB key usability I have another one to share, this time about headsets. Nate Graham’s…
April 30, 2017 Well done GNOME By now volumes have been written about why Canonical will replace its own Unity desktop with GNOME so I won’t bother to express any…
June 30, 2016 It’s good to be back on Chakra I installed Chakra Linux on an old notebook after a few years away from it. I now have Kubuntu, Korora (Fedora) and Chakra systems…
October 31, 2015 AsteroidOS: An open smartwatch platform Last week I came across an interesting open source project in AsteriodOS. It’s a free and open-source smartwatch platform based on OpenEmbedded, libhybris and…
February 28, 2015 What to do when the NBN comes to town: Copper cable cut Being at one of the early release sites, it’s now been over a year since I moved to the NBN. In truth, I did…
April 27, 2013 Another local KVM host A while back I mentioned a number of global VPS hosting providers were adopting KVM alongside Xen and OpenVZ, but I could only find…
June 30, 2012 Control your data with OwnCloud In this age of Cloud Computing there is a massive amount of personal data being harvested and managed by Cloud vendors which have a…
May 31, 2012 Desktop virtualisation across different hosts I recently got VirtualBox working on my notebook on both the Linux and Windows partitions. The slight difference is the same VM image is…
February 29, 2012 DVDs created on Linux ain’t PS3 playable Not sure why it’s so, but I tried two different apps on Linux: kdenlive.org 2mandvd and both failed to play on my PS3 which…
January 31, 2012 x86 tablet distro? I’ve been tinkering with a few options for Linux on an x86 (Atom) touchscreen tablet. I successfully booted up: Android x86 Plasma Active 2…
May 31, 2011 So long OpenSUSE I finally found the time to decommission my last OpenSUSE installation. And believe me it wasn’t before trying to save it. It was a…
December 23, 2010 The wheel has turned Okay, so I get around to upgrading my SO’s (I wuv yu LouLou) desktop and take the opportunity to break free from the OpenSUSE-Kubuntu…
November 28, 2010 Distro hunting again Having used everything under the Sun at one stage, this summer I’ll probably migrate my two main systems from Kubuntu and OpenSUSE to another…
August 23, 2010 Fixing Flash I’m generally not on the lookout for flash content on the Web, but after upgrading to KDE SC 4.5 I was forced to take…
July 26, 2010 Tax office chooses Ubuntu for AUSkey I managed to get an interesting snippet out of the ATO last week. The tax office will base its AUSkey Linux port on Ubuntu….