April 30, 2018
by Rodney Gedda
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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. Well, the USB Wi-Fi dongle and the keyboard and mouse are new, but everything else is … Continue reading
March 31, 2018
by Rodney Gedda
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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 usability series is going full steam ahead and we have a lot to look forward to … Continue reading
April 30, 2017
by Rodney Gedda
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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 further opinion on the matter. The only thing I will say is well done GNOME! I … Continue reading
June 30, 2016
by Rodney Gedda
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I installed Chakra Linux on an old notebook after a few years away from it. I now have Kubuntu, Korora (Fedora) and Chakra systems on the go. Out of those it seems Kubuntu has the least direction. It seems to … Continue reading
October 31, 2015
by Rodney Gedda
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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 Qt5. I have a Samsung Tizen-based smartwatch so it’s great to see a community project in … Continue reading
February 28, 2015
by Rodney Gedda
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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 have to keep my copper connection active in order to keep my POTS phone number, but … Continue reading
April 27, 2013
by Rodney Gedda
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A while back I mentioned a number of global VPS hosting providers were adopting KVM alongside Xen and OpenVZ, but I could only find one local provider. Since then I have found another. Ransom IT Offers managed and unmanaged KVM … Continue reading
June 30, 2012
by Rodney Gedda
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In this age of Cloud Computing there is a massive amount of personal data being harvested and managed by Cloud vendors which have a nasty habit of compromising privacy and features for commercial interests. That’s why I’m quite excited about … Continue reading
May 31, 2012
by Rodney Gedda
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I recently got VirtualBox working on my notebook on both the Linux and Windows partitions. The slight difference is the same VM image is being used by each native OS. Linux can mount Windows partitions so with a Linux (or … Continue reading
February 29, 2012
by Rodney Gedda
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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 is being used as a DVD/Blu-ray player. However, a DVD created with the Windows DVD Maker … Continue reading