KDE 4. Short but not sweet.

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 4 was finally […]

January 22nd, 2008 | Category: FPage | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Building a home server – hardware assembly

How easy is this going to be?

Worried? Don’t be. It may be fair to say that if you’ve never taken the cover off a computer in your life then this maybe isn’t the ideal starting point. But if you’ve ever dabbled a bit, maybe adding memory or changing a hard disk on a desktop […]

January 17th, 2008 | Tags: | Category: Uncategorised | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Building a home server

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 home server?

Like many […]

January 14th, 2008 | Tags: | Category: FPage | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)

Poor and uneducated – Call that lucky?

A story tucked away on the BBC new website a couple of days ago is entitled “Medway luckiest for lotto wins.”The story is about the “luckiest” place to buy a lotto ticket in the UK.

And how do they measure the value of “luck”?

Apparently the technique is, for a given town:

“based on the […]

January 11th, 2008 | Category: FPage | Comments are closed