December 29, 2011 All the best for 2012 As 2011 comes to a close I’d like to offer everyone a big best wishes for the holiday season and 2012. Throughout the next…
November 30, 2011 AusPost going all corporate Last week I attended an Optus function where the company’s director of government and corporate affairs, Maha Krishnapillai, was farewelled for his new role…
October 31, 2011 Paying out on pay walls Last week former Computerworld editor Andrew Birmingham wrote an opinion about News Limited’s decision to throw a pay wall in front of the online…
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”…
August 30, 2011 Time for a change After more than 11 years as a technology journalist with IDG Communications I began a new role as a senior analyst with Telsyte this…
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…
April 30, 2011 Beyond Capricorn by Peter Trickett When I first laid eyes on Beyond Capricorn: How Portuguese adventurers secretly discovered and mapped Australia 250 years before Captain Cook at Hyde Park…
March 27, 2011 KVM Clouds I’ve noticed a few more KVM-based hosting/Cloud providers out there. Most mass-market hosting services seem to be built with OpenVZ or Xen, but KVM…
February 28, 2011 DuckDuckGo added to Firefox search options A few weeks ago I discovered the DuckDuckGo search engine. If you’re a Firefox user you can add it to you list of search…
January 31, 2011 Another January I love January, so I’m sad to see this one pass by for another year. It’s the time of holidays, Linux.conf.au – which unfortunately…
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…
November 28, 2010 Distro hunting again Having used everything under the Sun at one stage, this summer I’ll probably migrate my two main systems from Kubuntu and OpenSUSE to another…
October 30, 2010 Meeting George I had the pleasure of meeting George Negus this week at a CIO function we hosted in Sydney. I’ve been a fan of George…
September 29, 2010 European vacation I’m taking a break to Europe this year and visiting friends and family while I’m here. So far we’ve done London, Paris and the…
August 23, 2010 Fixing Flash I’m generally not on the lookout for flash content on the Web, but after upgrading to KDE SC 4.5 I was forced to take…
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….
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…
May 20, 2010 Regressions, regressions So I “upgrade” to Kubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and in addition to my plasma panel getting nuked my notebook no longer suspended to RAM….