June 18, 2025 From Skype to Signal With the unfortunate demise of Skype, it’s hard to go past the Signal messaging app. Having used both apps for years it’s a shame…
November 30, 2016 I hate Windows 10 forced reboots, and so should you For the love of sanity can Microsoft give its users the option to reboot when it suits them after an upgrade? I’ve been stung…
January 30, 2014 New smartphone options for local telcos These days you can buy a smartphone from almost anywhere, from a mobile carrier to a grocery store. This month we put out an…
July 31, 2012 Microsoft’s Azure: A Cloud any open source person would be proud of? Just looking at Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud and I must say it’s a broad portfolio of open and Microsoft technologies. By offering: Linux servers…
May 31, 2012 Desktop virtualisation across different hosts I recently got VirtualBox working on my notebook on both the Linux and Windows partitions. The slight difference is the same VM image is…
December 23, 2010 The wheel has turned Okay, so I get around to upgrading my SO’s (I wuv yu LouLou) desktop and take the opportunity to break free from the OpenSUSE-Kubuntu…
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…
March 19, 2009 Kogan’s Linux-powered netbook: Aus owned or made up? Yesterday I reported on Kogan’s Linux netbook which is set to begin selling to local buyers next month. This isn’t Earth shattering (no pun…
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…
April 18, 2008 Stretching the open source line Found this interesting unified communications and collaboration suite dubbed VMukti. Why use VMukti? Well, according to this page… “VMukti furthers the high standards set…
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 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….
July 18, 2006 MSN Search out Googles Google It just occurred to me that Google may not be all it’s cracked up to be. I’ll show you what I mean. I want…
July 6, 2006 APC weaves in WordPress Despite its close ties to Microsoft, APC PC monthly Australian Personal Computer has rebuilt its Web site with the open source WordPress (read the…
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…
September 24, 2005 Is your plane running Windows? Upon arrival at Sydney airport on the way to Networkers last week, I saw something quite funny. So funny, I couldn’t resist taking a…
September 4, 2005 Opening night @ Tech.Ed Well I’m firmly back on the ground in Sydney and having decided to hold off my Tech.Ed musings because of a lack of time…
June 15, 2005 Robbins at Microsoft: a new conspiracy? By now most people within the Linux and open source communities would have heard the news that Gentoo Linux’s founding father Daniel Robbins was…
