Tech

I am writing this blog directly from my browser. Not strange, is it? Well, let me make clear what is happening at this moment. I am blogging, not from the web interface on the page where my blog is hosted. Nay good sir, I am blogging from an interface integrated within my browser. continue reading…

One of the guys on the GLUG mailing list pointed us in the direction of this beauty of a web browser. Today, for the third installment of Pimp My Ubuntu I will guide you through the basic steps of installing this browser. continue reading…

So I did part one on customizing Gnome-Splash. I remarked that if you run Gutsy or Hardy, you no have Gnome-Splash. Well I found a way for you to get your Splash on even in the newest version of Ubuntu. continue reading…

This seems to be a week of posting Ubuntu related entries, every day seems to include at least one *buntu-centric comment and this one is no different. I guess I can be forgiven, Hardy is still brand new, and to be honest – there are many bugs. Fear NOT! continue reading…

Right now I am fixing a friends WinXP box. The reason for me venturing back into Windowsland? A mysterious file called btkrnl.sys.

So I managed to boot into safe mode with command prompt, now I am doing a chkdsk.
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Fiddling with my Hardy laptop this morning I ran into a bug. I decided to browse launchpad to find out if a report has been submitted already. I sorted them by importance and guess what I found! continue reading…

I happened on a book “Hacking Windows XP” the other day. Browsing through it I found useful tips on customizing XP, from boot splash, to Login Screen, to how it behaves and so on.

I thought it quite a cool idea to present a series of how-to’s over the next few weeks on customising various aspects of Ubuntu. continue reading…

Hardy Heron is out. Now you all should know by now that I pride myself in being a late adopter, I only upgraded from Feisty to Gutsy last week! To be honest I was so impressed with the improvement that was made release-on-release that I could not wait for Hardy to be released. For once I broke my golden rule of “Update only when most issues have been resolved” and downloaded Hardy once the feeding frenzy was over. continue reading…