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
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
It is quite annoying that the way I access the Cpanel for my account is blocked by some ISP’s, e,g the port 2082. That is annoying and makes it hard to access my account. I can use the commandline ftp application to upload files, but I cannot actually do anything with the files I have … Read more
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
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
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
I have been busy looking for another place to stay as the rental property I was staying at was renovating. But anyway, I have been asked to write more about the Dooming history I have, I wrote about that in my last blog post and I included a snippet from my article on Doom here, … Read more
I am currently updating the system with the GUI package updater versus using the command line as the Adobe license agreement you have to scroll through is about 9000 lines long and you have to hold down the Return key to get past it, and if you type yes then hit enter, it quits the … Read more
The Ubuntu distribution is planning to move to rolling releases instead of releasing a new version every six months. it is very annoying that when you get a new Ubuntu disc, you have to re-install all over again, they should make it so upgrading is possible from the CD without having to backup and install … Read more
Removed Xubuntu 9.10 and just upgraded to Open Suse 11.3 on my laptop, installed from the DVD, I got with the latest edition of Linux Magazine, well October 2010, but it is a while before we get the Linux magazines in Australia. The installation was pretty painless and when you boot up, it asks for … Read more
Updated the website ad code and added the cool Twitter button to link my visitors to my Twitter account. Even though I hardly use Twitter except to have a feed of my Youtube activity. Anyway, I am very happy with the sucess of my website despite the loss of my database a while ago, but … Read more
Updating the sources.lst as I write this, it is taking a long time, but I am using the Town Library connection with WIFI and it is only about 64K per second, so updating the aforementioned file with apt-get update takes quite a while to run. I wish Australia could get a super fast broadband system … Read more
After switching from Ubuntu to Knoppix 6.3 on my laptop, I am seeing the benefits of using this operating system that does not restrict you like Windows does, and comes with a heap of software to boot, including the VIM GUI and Amarok as well as a heap of games and out of the box … Read more
The river is rising again here in Wagga Wagga, we might get another flood like the one in October, that flooded the caravan park, and washed away bridge supports, but that is nature for you. I like the floodwaters, as they wash away all of the accumulated rubbish from the riverside. I spent all of … Read more
I have been reminiscing about the old Beyond 2000 TV series from the 1980s that showed us how the future would look in the year 2000. They promised flying cars and Star Trek styled cities, but this has not come to pass yet, as we do not have an affordable anti-gravity system for cars yet … Read more
The Blog is going very well thanks to the visitors that have been commenting and bookmarking my website, and if you want to include bit’s of my posts in your own web blogs, then that is fine. The theme I am using is one I created myself with the P2 theme is the basis, I … Read more
The Australian Telstra Corporation is planning a Plan B in case the National Broadband Network does not go ahead as planned. There are many other things that need fixing in Australia right now, but they are only worried about the faster broadband connections they can offer, although the mobile network will be upgraded to 4G … Read more
Just using Windows 2003, and the sound in Flash does not work and then the sound drivers for the Realtek HD hardware suddenly stopped working. Back to Linux then, and everything works properly as it should without suddenly failing. I should maybe install Windows 7, but I wanted something else. I have fixed it now, … Read more
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=1897&tag=nl.e042 This does not bode well for the future of Ubuntu if you are forced to use a netbook interface on a desktop machine, I would rather see Gnome stay, Gnome 3.0 is promising and looks to take Gnome in a new direction. And removing Synaptic and using the Ubuntu Software Center instead? Synaptic is … Read more
Sorry I have not updated for a while, my housemate moved out and took his ADSL Internet with him and I am on Optus Mobile ”Broadband” for now. I am running Windows Server 2003 R2 to be able to use the Optus Broadband dongle, and it supports all of the hardware on my Gigabyte motherboard … Read more