June 26, 2010 Compiz-like key bindings for KWin’s cube effect If you’ve used the flashy spinning cube desktop effect on GNOME-based Linux systems running Compiz, you may be familiar with the ctrl-alt-left (or right…
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….
December 23, 2009 Happy holidays I’ve had quite a busy start to this year’s holiday season. Lots of shopping, driving people around, and time to brush up on my…
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…
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…
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…
October 27, 2007 New Amarok T for Roktober It’s Roktober again over at the Amarok project, so I thought I’d try my hand at crafting a new baseball t-shirt from Cafepress. It…
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….
April 15, 2007 Cool gear from Cafepress.com I took delivery of a nice Amarok baseball shirt late last week. I ordered it online from Cafepress. After attempting to use the Revelinux…
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…
December 22, 2006 Keep it up KDE media relations My hat goes off to Hamish Rodda, KDE’s Oceania representative and media relations person. I approached Hamish with this idea kicking around in my…
December 10, 2006 What, Web TV? I made my debut as a TV (well, Web TV) reporter last week. Shucks, as it’s such a brave new area for me I…
July 31, 2006 Anyone using Serendipity? I need to develop a new Web site and want to include a blog by default. Sure, I could go WordPress but I think…
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…