OpenSuse 11.3. Setting the time and managing services.

When managing services on OpenSuse 11.3 the best way is to use the service command. One example is to synchronize the time with an Internet time server. I have NTP setup so I can just type: service ntp restartservice ntp restart That command will restart the NTP daemon and set the time on your machine … Read more

Russia moving to GNU/Linux.

Russia are moving away from Windows and towards a Linux operating system instead, this is a good victory for Open Source software, which does not have the costs of constant repairs and downtime that Windows has, especially using the 10 year old Windows XP OS. Linux has more security, especially using NSA Selinux, which can … Read more

AMD 7GHZ Overclock.

This is an epic video of the AMD CPU being overclocked to 7GHZ. This is truly incredible and shows what you can do with super-cold liquid helium. Although, we will undoubtedly have processors as fast as this soon anyway, it would be hard to imagine gaming with such a CPU. With super fast GPU’s in … Read more

WordPress 3.1 is very good.

I have been busy testing the WordPress 3.1 beta and it is working very well indeed, no problems yet running on Apache2 webserver on my OpenSuse 11.3 machine. I used a local webserver instead of my website to run it as it made testing easier, and I used it to develop the new look of … Read more

OpenSuse installation.

I have removed Windows 2003 from my machine, it had started to corrupt files on my hard disk. I thought it was a good reliable operating system but I know better now. Why can’t Windows have a more reliable filesystem and software like Linux and UNIX have had for ages. I replaced it with OpenSuse … Read more

Windows 2003 is good.

Just typing up this post in OpenOffice.org thinking about the royal screw up that the National Broadband Network in Australia is turning out to be. It will cost AU$56.00 per month for the service and it may not be available in the country areas, they will have to be served by Satellite and WIMAX wireless … Read more

Website moving. Hosting24 sucks.

I am sick of my current webhost, I have had my files deleted from my website without warning and I am going to move my website to hostgator.com and hopefully they will offer better service than hosting24.com. Stay away from them. I am sorry for the inconvenience and I am going to transfer my current … Read more

Windows `98 customisation.

I just updated my WordPress installation manually and had to delete the .maintenance file in the WordPress root folder. To do this on Linux, just open the Gnome Terminal and type ftp.yourhost.com and enter your username and password and hit enter, then type ls -a and look to see if the file is there, then … Read more

Julian Assange arrested.

This is not justice, he is a good person for leaking valuable information and educating the masses about what is really going on in the world today. I wonder if the insurance files decryption key will really be released? Then we can peek inside this enormous file and see what is hidden within. But I … Read more

Wikileaks website.

Julian Assange and the Wikileaks website are causing quite a ruckus in the henhouse these days, with gigabytes of files on the Wikileaks website, the governments of the world are clamouring to shut down the website and have Assange arrested, especially on trumped up Sex offenses. He is only keeping the governments honest and releasing … Read more