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Today is 8 Sept 2010 – 08/09/10 for everybody except you guys in the USA – and I bring you our weekly roundup!

Today the topic is TWITTER, and how to get a lot of twitter followers quickly, and why I think doing that is a bad idea.

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A commenter (Kerberos) gave me a link regarding a FLOSS evangelist having trouble to connect to a CUPS printer in Linux. That link was from 2004, and he claimed that it was still relevant.

Naturally I wanted to see what he was on about, and decided to connect to a CUPS printer already set up here at the office.

Here is what happened… 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…

This is actually laughably easy, and you can do all this for free! (Excluding your internet connection and a PC of course…)

I did this in a few hours (for a more comprehensive website with more content it will take more time.)

My adventure started out as an endeavor to be able to VNC to a specific computer on our home LAN from anywhere, and ended up with me doing not only that, but creating a website as well. continue reading…