So tonight my better, no I mean much better half, goes to log into facebook and it prompts her to register her computer. Huh? Seeing as you can pretty much individually identify a computer simply by examining the default information that the browser passes over when...

So Ubuntu 10.04 is a thing of beauty and typically I use it above other distributions.... However my spiritual Linux home is Redhat/Fedora I started out with it and even bought the Sybex RHCE book. I even think that the Redhat style of system-config-blah provides a...

Been having a look on the web for options that allow backing up a Linux box to a Windows box without first having to create a massive file on the Linux box. Found a good FTP option at http://www.squidoo.com/linux_backup namely under point 4: # login ftp...

Annoying problem "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process" trying to delete a directory. Didn't want to reboot because I was running a VMWare VM at the time and well real operating systems don't make you reboot every time...

Just had an error in Windows 7-Zip 4.6.5 trying to extract a Linux tar archive. A reasonably large tar archive of 3.76 GB. Got this error: So fell back to using Cygwin Using tar -tf archive.tar allowed me to list the contents of the archive just fine. But attempting...

www.staticice.com.au www.megabuy.com.au www.auspcmarket.com.au www.onlinecomputer.com.au www.eyo.com.au - Based at chipping norton. Reasonably easy to navigate their website. I have purchased 2 or three boxes from them. Found them reliable....

Recently discovered an old Joomla website that had been hacked by a remote exploit which changed the contents of .htaccess and redirected the connecting clients away to malicious sites. I don't know how they managed it but I thought that if .htaccess wasn't writeable...

I haven't tried this but don't want to forget about it: http://infrarecorder.org/ You can also use ISORecorder which works well. Not sure of the license on this program. However the website says "Since the very beginning ISO Recorder has been a free tool (for personal...

Just had a play with the new Gnome 3 gnome-shell. On Ubuntu 10.04: apt-get install gnome-shell gnome-shell --replace To revert back to the default Ubuntu Window Manager metacity --replace (You may have to also run) gnome-panel & Anyway check it out... I can't wait...

I'm fairly strict with what I allow as comments on this blog. But if someone has gone to the effort to post a well-thought-out comment I don't mind if they put a URL in the comment or the associated website field and therefore gain some SEO benefit from it. I have...