Author Archives: Bob Toovey
I took the plunge and upgraded to Oneiric Ocelot, version 11.10 and I must say that I not that impressed. Under 11.04, performance was better, the system seemed snappier and Flash games and video behaved better. Thanks to a comment left by Richard Ewing I have configured Compiz to make the Unity bar smaller, which makes [...]
Craig at This French Life writes about a fake email that is supposedly from the HADOPI agency… BE on the look out for scam emails supposedly from the government’s Hadopi service, which was set up to combat online file sharing. The TorrentFreak website highlights the technique being used, where people are asked to access details of their ‘case’ via [...]
From reading this SlashDot post, it seems that the new Ubuntu version is now totally focused on the Unity Interface… With previous versions, it was possible to choose a “classic” look rather than the default of Unity; now, for good or ill, the left-hand vertical menu is a permanent desktop element… I have been using [...]
Yesterday I installed W3C Total Cache on my other blog. While it did seem to speed things up I had to disable it this morning. It messed up the title and permalink for a new post I had written and stopped a Feedburner form from working correctly. I guess I need to check over the [...]
From France Continues Mass Processing Of Infringement Accusations: 60 People Get Third Strike Notice… 650,000 Get First Strike… The latest stats coming out of France’s HADOPI “three strikes” (really three accusations) policy are really quite stunning. Most of the focus is on the fact that 60 ISP account holders have received their third strike, and now await to [...]
The next version of the Linux operating system is due very soon. To see how long you have to wait for Oneiric Ocelot (11.10), check out the count down page. Ok, well it’s actually October 13th when it’s going to be available. For a few more details, see the Engadget post - The countdown to Oneiric [...]
I am getting more worried about the state of privacy on the Internet. Not sure it’s because I am getting older or that there are more and more reports of sites abusing user trust. Today I came across this site in my RSS feed, Europe V Facebook. Apart from discussing the ways in which Facebook [...]
For my next challenge I shall attempt to read 10 books in 30 days. I have an awful lot of books, mostly SciFi. So this gives me a chance to read a few that I have not had the chance to. Sleepers of Mars – John Wyndham (1938, my edition 1973) The undercover aliens – [...]
Don’t know about you but I would love one of these on my desk! Blast off to a clutter-free desk with the Spaceport ceramic rocket usb hub! This silver ceramic rocket is a fully functional USB hub. Plug your thumbdrives, mice, keyboards, cameras or any USB device into one of its 4 ports. 50″ cable [...]
I while ago on my other blog I wrote about HTML Entities. This is a standard way of showing ‘funny’ characters that should work across all browsers. In that post I linked to a site that gives code tabless, I have now found a better site. entitycode.com gives nicely formatted tables of useful codes. It also [...]
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