Linux 2.6.27
New kernel is out, yay! Of particular interest to me is using kexec as a way to suspend the machine, although it is only 32bit at the moment 🙁 There […]
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Security, ahh, update?
This morning I turned on my openSUSE work machine and was greeted (as I often am) with a message to update the system. Today’s message was special however, and perhaps […]
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 moreBootology [bōōt-ol-uh-jee] -noun. The art of booting Linux
I just came across bootchart, a tool for “performance analysis and visualization of the GNU/Linux boot process”. Ever wondered what was causing that big delay in bootup? Install bootchart and […]
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 morePlease forward..
UPDATE: No sooner had I finished publishing this post I got a message on the IRC channel saying this feature has been commited to the main trunk. Yay! These days […]
Read moreMythTV Down Under (finally, it’s not all upside down)
Every 6 months or so for the past number of years I have tried to install a dedicated PVR, and fail. I give up because I just can’t get all […]
Read moreWine 1.0 and Civ 4 = awesome
WINE (Wine Is Not An Emulator) is an open source implementation of the Windows API which lets you install many Windows applications natively on Linux. After 15 years they just […]
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