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Archive for April 2011
Thin Clients for Desktop Virtualisation
For as long as I can remember, large organisations have been trying to reduce the cost of supporting desktop computers. It was cheaper and easier ‘back in the day’ when the mainframe computer supported a bunch of dumb terminals which had no local processing power, a text-only green screen and every processing request was sent … Continue reading
PlayStation Network User Data Hacked
Seven days and counting: Sony’s Playstation Network was still off-line after the announcement it had taken the service down indefinitely, while they ‘rebuilt from the ground up.’ PSN has suffered a major hack-attack and personal information of all users has been stolen, possibly including credit card data.Following the Geo-Hotz-Sony lawsuit, it was assumed the hacking … Continue reading
Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Released
April 28th was D-day. Ubuntu 11.04, codenamed Natty Narwhal, was released. Being honest, the world didn’t stop. Yes, the Ubuntu Linux community and development company Canonical in particular, cares a lot. The 11.04 release is a radical overhaul of this free Linux distribution, featuring the Unity desktop launcher. The Ubuntu community is split between the … Continue reading
Beginners Guide to WordPress
WordPress is a Content Management System (CMS). The hosted version (on WordPress.com) allows you to create and maintain a website through a comprehensive administrative interface without needing to know web markup languages (HTML), style sheets (CSS) or any other tools. It is simple enough for a beginner to learn in a few hours, yet still … Continue reading
Review: Kafka the Musical BBC Radio3
Two years on, I still find it difficult to get past David Tennant as Dr Who. In this Radio 3 drama, he stars as playwright Franz Kafka, living on the breadline in Weimar Germany, already terminally ill, full of regret for a life unfulfilled and a lost love. Except Tennant doesn’t do conventional, the twist … Continue reading
Review: Windows Live Online Photos
Since Microsoft launched SkyDrive as part of it’s Windows Live cloud-based service, your single Windows Live (read ‘Hotmail’) account has up to 100Gb of free on-line storage, which is enough to upload and share thousands of photos. Once you upload photos, you can create slide shows and share them with whomever you choose. Two things … Continue reading
Unity Beta Success on Netbook
Ubuntu 11.04 Beta-2 download on April 25th.We put it on a netbook with Intel graphics (not my JVC-mini, the Intel Extreme 645 on-board is too old to work out of the box). Yes; on a Dell Mini-10, the Unity interface works perfectly at 1024 by 600. No messages. No extra drivers. No application crashes. You … Continue reading
Review: Gnome Shell and Unity
The soon-to-be released Unity is Ubuntu’s attempt (condescendingly) to produce a desktop environment with usability in mind. That rather patronizes the classic Gnome desktop, which was always functional rather than stylish and has served Linux users well for some years. But Gnome 3 with Gnome Shell is bringing major change, too. Gnome Shell and Unity … Continue reading
Review: Birth of the British Novel, BBC4
Currently on rotation on BBC4′s freeview TV channel. Author Henry Hitchings explores the lives and works of Britain’s radical and pioneering 18th century novelists who, in just 80 years, established all the literary genres we recognise today. It was a golden age of creativity led by Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Fanny … Continue reading
Ubuntu Unity Fail on AMD Athlon
So the saga continues. My countdown banner tells me we’ve less than six days to go to release and Ubuntu users around the globe are still having issues with this Unity thing. (Right: What Unity should look like…) Since this is supposed to be the next generation user interface and the Great White Hope of … Continue reading
Full Circle Magazine Issue 48 Out Now
Full Circle – the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community – is proud to announce the release of our forty-eighth issue. Celebrating our fourth year! This month: Command and Conquer. How-To : Program in Python – Part 22, LibreOffice – Part 3, Finding eBooks and Using an Arduino in Ubuntu. Linux Lab – Swappiness … Continue reading
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