Category: Tech
Sometimes not _everything_ is about Linux..
How to compete with free
The NSW Government is considering putting Linux on the laptops for students as a part of the Rudd Government’s “Education Revolution” plan. Good idea! But you know what will happen, […]
Read moreSay tuple, not tupple?
The word tuple is derived from Latin and in mathematics means ‘an ordered set of elements’. A tuple containing ‘n’ components is known as a n-tuple. For example, 4-tuple (or […]
Read moreFun with GPT
Jason wanted to borrow my server for his work, so this meant I had to re-build my desktop machine so that I could rsync my data across. As the computer […]
Read moreTaking a SIP of VoIP
It’s time for me to jump on the VoIP bandwagon.. This was the post I made to the CLUG list the other day. Why? Mendy is moving back to Australia […]
Read moreGetting MythTV working is easy
My good mate Tthu wanted to make himself a mythtv box. He bought an old Dell online and after a trip to the computer fair to get a 500GB SATA […]
Read moreMore netbooks..
Who isn’t making netbooks these days? Toshiba has announced a new netbook called NB100, which comes with Linux (Ubuntu 8.04) or Windows XP. Samsung has announced the NC10, which comes […]
Read moreDell joins the fray
Dell have finally released their long awaited “EeePC killer” netbook in Australia, the Inspiron 910 (also affectionately dubbed the “Mini 9” – but that just makes me think of a […]
Read moreKnock, knock. Who’s there? EeePC 1000. EeePC who? Exactly.
We’ve all heard of the EeePC, Asus’ flagship netbook running Linux that took the world by storm and forged a whole new market for open source software (potentially). Ta daa. […]
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