August 30, 2013 What to do when NBN comes to town: fibre fandango A few weeks after the pits have been upgraded in your area the product at the centre of the whole national broadband network debate…
July 29, 2013 What to do when NBN comes to town: RSP redux When was the last time you received some internet service provider advertising material in your letterbox? AOL CDs anyone? When the NBN comes to…
June 30, 2013 What to do when NBN comes to town: it’s the pits Who would have thought boring telecommunications pits could attract so much media coverage. That’s the PR magic the NBN carries with it as it…
May 29, 2013 What to do when NBN comes to town As it happens I’m one of the lucky few pre-Abbottians with NBN fibre rollin’ past my door so I thought I’d share my experiences…
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…
March 31, 2013 The path to PRINCE2 This month I received my PRINCE2 certification for both the Foundation and Practitioner levels. PRINCE2 (Projects IN Controlled Environments) is a UK government standard…
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…
December 30, 2012 Happy holidays All the best for the holiday season and I hope you have a happy New Year. I’ve taken some time off to be with…
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…
September 30, 2012 Go Swannies! I’m not much of an AFL fan, but hey, is there any team a Sydneysider can get excited about but the Swans when they…
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…
April 29, 2012 Captain Cook by Vanessa Collingridge A while back I dusted off a book about Captain Cook at a market second hand book store and added it to my Australian…
March 31, 2012 Earth Hour and Daylight Saving: It’s all a cron Tonight it’s Earth Hour for one hour and tomorrow morning Daylight Saving ends so we will all use an extra hour of power. Seriously,…
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…
January 31, 2012 x86 tablet distro? I’ve been tinkering with a few options for Linux on an x86 (Atom) touchscreen tablet. I successfully booted up: Android x86 Plasma Active 2…