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…
April 10, 2006 Loitering @ Linuxworld The inaugural Australian Linuxworld conference and expo came and went a few weeks ago. If you’ve been reading my stuff you’ll know that I…
April 3, 2006 Get an Epson Recent printer experiences have forced me to blog away on the topic. After many frustrating hours trying to my HP multifunction device to work…
March 22, 2006 Mobile browser visit It’s amazing what you can find browsing through your HTTP access logs (I need to get out more, I know). Check out this visit…
February 19, 2006 Keeping IT trucking It’s a big congrats to the team driving Western Australia’s technology roadshow for making a visible effort to bridge the digital divide. They really…
January 29, 2006 Jabber gibberish I signed up for a Jabber account with KDE’s community Jabber server – KDETalk.net. So anyone who uses Jabber for IM can reach me…
December 23, 2005 From SuSE to Kubuntu – merry Tuxmas! When I first moved from Red Hat to Debian about five years ago I said I would never go back to RPM-based distros –…
November 7, 2005 Is Linux a danger to Tax? A few weeks ago some cueball sent me an anonymous e-mail in response to my article about the ATO dipping its toes into Linux….
October 22, 2005 AUUG 2005 As always, it was great to get along to AUUG’s annual conference last week, this year in Sydney. Not only was it good to…
August 7, 2005 Deer Park: the next generation Firefox Pulled down the Deer Park Alpha 2 release of the Firefox Web browser over the weekend. I’m using Deer Park on my G3 iBook…
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…
June 9, 2005 Apple and Sun: a most unlikely duo Like many who heard the news this week, I have a few opinions on what the short and long-term implications for both Apple and…