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Full Circle Magazine #34 Available!
Issue 34 is on the horizon! This month marks the 34th issue of Full Circle, along with the new and improved companion Full Circle Podcast! Now, along with your magazine, you’ve got an extra 40 minutes of auditory Full Circle goodness. Direct download link: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2010/02/27/issue-34-is-on-the-horizon/ In Issue #34: Command and Conquer. How-To : Program in … Continue reading
Mount ISO images without the command line
Or, ‘how to check your newly mastered DVD-iso image is good before you burn it and waste your blank media.’ Everybody knows I hate typing hieroglyphics at the command line. Any opportunity to avoid the terminal session, I take it….
Full Circle Podcast Episode #1 is up
Full Circle is a free, independent, magazine dedicated to the Ubuntu family of Linux operating systems. Each month, it contains helpful how-to articles and reader submitted stories. The resurrected companion podcast is now available featuring yours truly, Ed Hewitt and Dave Wilkins. Episode #1: Stop Wine-ing and Go Native!Hosted at:http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2010/02/24/full-circle-podcast-1-stop-wine-ing-and-go-native/
Partition Magician
If you’ve waded through the previous post, Scouting the Upgrade Trail, this is the coda to the flippant one-liner about choosing a partitioning scheme. Decide what disk partitions you actually need; my main reason is to separate programs from data, within that, separate my documents from the music collection from video. It makes backing up … Continue reading
Scouting the Upgrade Trail
It’s upgrade time. We all know the sensible way to do this is to upgrade sequentially through the version numbers (yawn). However, Ubuntu 9.10 will only perform the in-place upgrade over 9.04 and nothing earlier. If you’re still an Ubuntu Badger, Heron or Ibex, you have little choice but to clean-install. Maybe, like me, the … Continue reading
What Makes a Digital Messiah?
Expectations were high in January, when a guy called Steve stood up in San Francisco and announced a new kind of sanitary towel (according the product name). Expectations worthy of a new digital messiah; after almost two years of hype and speculation, it seems we’d be satisfied with nothing less. Just one look at the … Continue reading
How-to: Preserve Your Anonymity using TOR
Recently Google CEO Eric Schmidt declared the death of privacy on the internet and dismissed concerns saying “…if you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.” [CNBC: “Inside the Mind of Google” special http://insidegoogle.cnbc.com/ ]. So now we know. Private equals secret equals … Continue reading
Review: Linux Mint 7 ‘Gloria’ (re-post)
Original article: 13/09/2009 appeared in Full Circle Magazine #31 Derivatives have gotten a bad name since the financial credit-crunch and banking meltdown. There is one derivative, however that looks rather a good investment: Linux Mint 7, codenamed Gloria. Mint 7 is a Linux distribution derived from Debian via Ubuntu – in this release Ubuntu 9.04 … Continue reading
Review: WebHTTrack website copier and offline browser (re-post)
Original article: 02/09/2008 appeared in Full Circle Magazine #26 It was a simple job, creating a website using the tools and free hosting on Google Sites. Trouble is, there’s no site backup tool and I don’t like leaving the only copy of my precious pages sitting in ‘the cloud.’ Now imagine you’re taking over a … Continue reading
Opinion: The Lure of Instant-On (re-post)
Original article: 28/08/2008 In this installment, the Professor and Alter cross swords over the necessity of windows or indeed, worktops. Sorry, Splashback. Err, Splashtop. Alter was sat in front of a Google page, tutting. “What are you looking for, Alter?” “A firm release date for Vista-2, Professor.” “I shouldn’t worry. Most people don’t need Windows.” … Continue reading
Opinion: How many distros is too many? (re-post)
Original article: 09/08/08 appeared in Full circle Magazine #18In this installment, the Professor re-educates the young Padewan, Alter, in answer of the question ‘how many distros is too many?’ I had just sat down with a pot of tea and a muffin, when Alter interrupted.“I overheard you talking to your Knowledgeable Friend the other day, … Continue reading
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