Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Under KDE 3 I've made major use of the wonderful quadkonsole, from Simon Perreault. It's a lovely thing, allowing you to embed 4 (by default, other permutations possible) konsoles in a single window, with them all resizing together. Kinda hard to explain, but very useful in some situations.
KDE 4 comes ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Back in January I wrote about the newly-released KDE 4.0, and what a disappointment it was.Since then, and particularly in recent weeks, the FOSS community has been raging with discussions about the perceived issues with KDE4.
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Despite being something of a Linux enthusiast (Linux boxes at home outnumber Windows boxes) I'm also realistic. My main workstation at home runs Windows, due to the simple reason that the applications I need only run on Windows. Yes, I know all about WINE, and use it very successfully on ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Ubuntu's generally splendid Linux distribution came up to version 8.04 a few days ago.
The three Ubuntu systems in my life were headed for an upgrade! First off a Kubuntu laptop I use for work. Fairly vanilla configuration. Upgrade took a while due to a *lot* of downloads, but it went ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Install the Operating System
As detailed in the Introduction, we're going to drop a standard install of Ubuntu Server Edition on here, and then customise for various additional functionality.
The first step, of course, is to obtain one Ubuntu install CD! Go to the download page for Ubuntu, then make sure you ...
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
This is going to be just about the briefest review of KDE 4 you'll read anywhere.
First things first: I LIKE KDE. I like it a lot, and have done for years. I use it every day (literally) and always look forward to new versions. They just get better and better.
KDE ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Here we look at building a cheap, quiet and compact home media server.So what is a "home-media server"? Different things to different folks, but the box I'm going to build is actually to replace an existing unit which works fine but is too large and much too noisy.
What is a ...
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
HotRecorder is a neat product. Unfortunately the people who run it are a bunch of crooks.I bought HotRecorder in April 2006, being a soul who purchased music (legally!) off the iTunes store but who wished to play it on MP3 devices.
One day I was stupid enough to want to move ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Media servers for Pinnacle Showcenter 1000
I've had a Pinnacle Showcenter 1000 for a while now. It was one of the first "simple client - smart server" devices around, and is still a great device for getting music, photos and video from a PC to a hi-fi stack and TV.
The ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Bioshock is one of the most talked about games (PC and console) to be released in recent times.
Almost all the major gaming sites, or major sites who also carry some games reviews, are lost for superlatives. Check out just a handful of reviews here, here and here. These are most ...
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