January 29, 2015 Notification to nowhere Most operation systems have notification services that attempt to notify, if not inform, the user when a significant even has occurred. Such as? Hmm……
October 31, 2014 Open source as a case study in software reformism Having read the Anarchist FAQ a number of years ago I found the brief mention of the open source movement quite interesting, no doubt…
July 30, 2014 F-Droid open source app store on BlackBerry 10 I’ve been an Android user for many years, but only recently dabbled with a few alternative app stores to Google Play. I now have…
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…
April 27, 2013 Another local KVM host A while back I mentioned a number of global VPS hosting providers were adopting KVM alongside Xen and OpenVZ, but I could only find…
February 27, 2013 Seafile, SparkleShare and ownCloud 5 More developments in the open source file hosting and backup, or “personal cloud”, space. ownCloud 5 is now in beta and I just learned…
January 28, 2013 Avoiding WordPress URL breakage A couple of people have asked me how to recover from a slip of the mouse when using the WordPress administration interface. Call them…
November 30, 2012 The open source code inside your iPad There is so much I had to create a new page lest this post clogs up blog feeds. The open source code inside your…
October 21, 2012 User Data Manifesto I couldn’t agree with it more: http://userdatamanifesto.org Diaspora tent.io All Unhosted apps status.net ownCloud It would be good to see some open source blogging…
August 31, 2012 Local OwnCloud hosting Since my last post about OwnCloud, I discovered local VPS hosting company Echoman is offering locally hosted OwnCloud instances for just $6/100GB/Mth! Read more…
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…
June 30, 2012 Control your data with OwnCloud In this age of Cloud Computing there is a massive amount of personal data being harvested and managed by Cloud vendors which have a…
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…
February 29, 2012 DVDs created on Linux ain’t PS3 playable 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…
September 30, 2011 The BlocksNet concept I fired up BlocksNet the other week when investigating some cross-platform, online backup options. BlocksNet is developed in Ruby and after some “bringing together”…
July 26, 2011 Nice reminder This article published on ZDNet.com today is a nice reminder of a story I broke almost a year ago. Today’s news: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/sun-ceo-explicitly-endorsed-javas-use-in-android-what-do-you-say-now-oracle/9285 My version…
June 29, 2011 Kissing Kate Just a quick post to say how much I love Kate – KDE advanced text editor – that is. Dynamic syntax highlighting, syntax keyword…
May 31, 2011 So long OpenSUSE I finally found the time to decommission my last OpenSUSE installation. And believe me it wasn’t before trying to save it. It was a…
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…
July 26, 2010 Tax office chooses Ubuntu for AUSkey I managed to get an interesting snippet out of the ATO last week. The tax office will base its AUSkey Linux port on Ubuntu….