May 20, 2010 Regressions, regressions So I “upgrade” to Kubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and in addition to my plasma panel getting nuked my notebook no longer suspended to RAM….
February 17, 2010 Random desktop crashes stretch sanity My desktop decided to spontaneously restart again today in a repeat of what happened a few weeks ago. The short-term memory replacement (Twitter) tracked…
January 31, 2010 Android in da house My SO picked up an Android-based mobile yesterday and I am soooo jealous. It’s the HTC Magic that was launched in May last year….
October 30, 2009 Red Hat vs Microsoft share price story I must thank Telford for bugging me twice about the fact that Red Hat’s share price had surpassed Microsoft’s (organically). The article received a…
February 15, 2009 LCA ’09 wrap up Congrats to Ben Powell and all the organisers of this year’s LCA in Hobart, you did a fantastic job. The build-up to the conference…
January 17, 2009 Marching south My first week back at work was quite hectic. E-mails, work and more e-mails. Now I’m pleased to say I’ll be marching south for…
November 12, 2008 Hotmail and Linux: an icy relationship There are a few whispers going around the Internet about Microsoft “breaking” its Hotmail service for Linux users. I can confirm from first-hand experience…
March 17, 2008 MythTV success! After considerable frustration over my lack of TV reception with the Mythbuntu PVR, I decided to forklift upgrade the whole thing to Ubuntu Hardy…
February 17, 2008 Digital TV on Linux = aaargghh!!! A blogged previously, over the holidays I built a Linux-based PVR with the anticipation of recording TV when I’m out and watching the programs…
January 25, 2008 Off to LCA! Today is my last day in the office before I jet off to yet another Linux.conf.au, this year in Melbourne. Hey, what do you…
December 15, 2007 Summer holidays – yay! My working year for 2007 is over and I’m now officially on annual leave for the next four weeks. I’ll be spending most of…
September 29, 2007 The simple things in Linux I picked up a copy of Sepultura’s Against earlier today and decided to play it on my Kubuntu Linux notebook. Come to think of…
August 10, 2007 Printing to a Windows network printer @ Tech.Ed How does a Linux user manage to print something at a Microsoft conference? I asked myself that same question yesterday and decided to investigate….
August 8, 2007 Tech.Ed returns to the Gold Coast Well it’s been two years since Microsoft’s Tech.Ed last graced the shiny sands of Queensland’s Gold Coast. I jetted in last night and checked…
February 25, 2007 The Epson AcuLaser CX11NF Colour Laser MFD with Linux Greetings Linux boffin. If you are reading this Web page you’ve probably been searching for a colour laser multi-function device that works with the…
February 3, 2007 Virtually back online I’m now back online after my Xen virtual machine was migrated to another physical host. I can’t fault the performance and stability of Xen….
January 15, 2007 Back to work, and linux.conf.au I returned to work after the summer holidays today only to have about a gazillion e-mails in my inbox waiting to be deleted. If…
October 31, 2006 Get well Tony Just a quick post to say how shocked I was last month when I read about Tony Nugent being hit by a car. I…
June 24, 2006 Getting Slashdotted a few months months late While glancing over Slashdot today I was surprised to discover a story I wrote in November last year. As many of the commentators on…
April 20, 2006 Kudos to KOffice I’d like to take this opportunity to give thanks and praise to a very special open source project – the KOffice project. KOffice turned…