PLEASE NOTE: This is done on the live version of the distro as I haven’t paid for the installer yet and my new hard drive hasn’t arrived anyway. I have just been reading up on the various desktops and E17 seems to be quite popular as a lightweight option. Looking around I found a distribution [...]
I have finally had enough of Windows for development work. Going through the software I now use it is only iTunes that is holding me back. I have ordered a new hard drive for my Laptop and will be installing a dual boot system of Linux and Windows 7. I will only go into Windows [...]
In case you didn’t know, I live in a Motorhome and travel around so most if not all my gear is 12V based and I am very power concious. I have moved from having a desktop computer with quad core etc to an M90 Dell desktop replacement laptop. It was hard to deal with the [...]
I have just received a comment to my post regarding wp-spamfree and decided to do a search for other users of wp-spamfree who had had problems. StevoFC has some negative comments but didn’t really look into the cause of the problems. If he had done a little research to find out why the comments were [...]
I find the new firefox tab method confusing. It opens it to the right of the existing tab not to the far right. To go back to the old method go to about:config, search for browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent and change it to false. I just had to reinstall Windows 7 and had forgotten about this…
I installed 2 updates today, Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool x64 – March 2010 (KB890830) Microsoft Security Essentials Client update package – KB2019198 After installing my mouse failed and then the whole computer locked up. I rebooted thinking that would clear it. about 3 minutes after the reboot the system BSOD’d. I restarted in safe [...]
I have now made the final push to go opensource on all my windows 7 applications. Although I would say the overall project has been a success there are one or two areas of failure. Here is a list of tasks and software I use to complete them. Web Browsing – FireFox Email – ThunderBird [...]
I am looking for an Open Source HTML editor to replace Frontpage which I have been using for years. I quite liked frontpage for it’s 3 tabbed approach to pages. I could draw tables in the design mode, go into the html mode and edit it to remove the frontpage fluff and add php code, [...]
I am starting work on a new website and using Zend Framework (as previously mentioned). One of the most demoralising things when coding is not seeing the finished results of your work for weeks/months.
Secunia offer a free personal edition of their PSI software. This software checks all the software on your computer and checks that you have the latest patched version installed. This saves you going through each program to see if there is an update for it. It is not a virus scanner or security product but [...]