02

Mar/08

Subversion on Ubuntu 7.10

Filed Under Linux at 2nd March 2008 1:21 by

I set about setting up a svn repository on the server and my god was it hard. Let me clarify what I was trying to do. I want a svn repository on the server so that it was accessible online. … Continue reading →

27

Feb/08

Re-discovering Linux

Filed Under Linux at 27th February 2008 19:48 by

Every so often I go back to Linux. In 1999 I discovered Linux for the first time and used SuSE. Then some time around 2002 it was Fedora Core and again in 2006 with Ubuntu. Now after installing the new … Continue reading →

06

Feb/08

Antec SmartPower 400 Broke Again

Filed Under Hardware, Linux at 6th February 2008 17:31 by

I tried to turn on the linux box the other day only to find it powers on for 1 second then it goes off. I did a bit of investigating and found the root cause to be the power supply … Continue reading →

03

Nov/07

Microsoft’s Strategy To Break Linux

Filed Under Linux, Windows at 3rd November 2007 0:23 by

After reading the post on Cnet about CEO of Mandriva’s open letter to Steve Ballmer I released something very worrying. The article mentions the difference between Linux distributions on making deals with Microsoft. I can see Microsoft is doing this … Continue reading →

30

Oct/07

Seemless Connectivity

Filed Under Linux, Mac, Review, Windows at 30th October 2007 21:44 by

I was using the 802.11n protocol to transfer some files between my Alienware and my MacBook Pro and saw it would take around 35 minutes for 9.84GB. I thought this would be a good time to test how good the … Continue reading →

25

Oct/07

Ubuntu 7.10

Filed Under Linux, Review at 25th October 2007 13:17 by

I have finally installed the new release of Ubuntu “Gutsy Gibbon” on my linux box and it ran fine till I tried to get WPA working. THe support for WPA is very dodgy. Using network manager to configure the WPA … Continue reading →

16

Oct/07

Print Server (CUPS)

Filed Under Hardware, Linux at 16th October 2007 20:35 by

I finally got a print server going using CUPS on the home server (which sounds really sick). I was playing around with the idea when I tried to print my university timetable. The Timetable came out like in my previous … Continue reading →

15

Oct/07

AWN 0.2

Filed Under Linux at 15th October 2007 14:28 by

A cool windows manager but still very early in the development process. A video can be found here.