Identi.ca Link-up?
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View ArticleTesting, Testing, 1, 2, 3…
I was catching up with season 3 of the Ubuntu UK Podcast this week (I’m a bit behind) and in one of the earlier episodes, one of the guys (Dave I think) mentioned that you could turn Debian into a...
View ArticleGrandad-buntu, Part 1
OK, so if you’re reading this, the chances are you’ve been in my position yourself – the family IT support person. This past weekend, I got “the call”. You know the drill, laptop running really slow,...
View ArticleGrandad-buntu, Part 2
Well, the last month’s been fun!! As I mentioned in my previous posts, all my VPS servers were with RackVM, who vanished suddenly towards the end of August, taking my site with them. I knew it was a...
View ArticleLinux Mint Debian Edition
If you’ve read my About page, you’ll know that I’m a big fan of Debian- / Ubuntu-derived distros and also of rolling release distros. So the latest offering from Linux Mint is right up my street – a...
View ArticleUbuntu – Driving Linux Forward or Stealing the Credit?
In recent months, several reports have been release detailing how little Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) contribute to upstream projects, such as Gnome and the Linux kernel. Last week, Mark...
View ArticleThe Meerkat Is Here… A Review of Xubuntu 10.10
At 10:10 and 10 seconds on Sunday 10/10/10, the latest version of Cananical’s Ubuntu Linux operating system (Ubuntu 10.10, codenamed Maverick Meerkat) was released, along with it’s derivatives,...
View ArticleSpam!
Wow, you leave your blog out there in the big ol’ www for a few months to fend for itsslf and when you check back in on it, it’s full of spam! 1158 spam comments to be precise. So much for the WP...
View ArticleOneiric Ocelot Arrives – A Review of Xubuntu 11.10
On October 13 2011, the latest version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, 11.10 (codenamed Oneiric Ocelot), was released, along with all its derivatives, including Xubuntu. Keen-eyed readers may notice...
View ArticleSelf-Signed Server Certificates
Creating a self-signed server certificate is easy, but I’m going to document it here for next time I need to know! Step 1: Generate the keys to be used to sign the certificate. openssl genrsa -des3...
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