Canonical have decided that it is time to update the Ubuntu theme and focus. Since Ubuntu was announced in 2004 the theme has been “Ubuntu – Linux for Human Beings” and focused on bringing Linux to the desktop, as well as providing server versions for the data centres. The new inspiration is “Light” in both [...]

It has been an interesting 7 days for the computer “geeks” and early adopters. Windows 7 was released with much fanfare and hype over the built-in security. Canonical released the latest Ubuntu 9.10 on 29 October with a range of upgrades. Of course this has meant a couple of busy days as I copy all [...]

As reported by ITNews at the NSW Parliamentary Hearing into Cybercrime, Detective Inspector Bruce van der Graaf from the Computer Crime Investigation Unit has told the MPs that you shouldn’t use Microsoft Windows for Internet banking. He recommended using Linux or the Apple iPhone. The politicians were a bit confused when he mentioned Linux so [...]

Software Freedom Day was a great success. I was assisted at the Computer Fair by my eldest daughter and her boyfriend and we managed to give away nearly 100 OpenEducationDisc DVDs and 50 Ubuntu 9.04 CDs. We had a PC running Windows 7 Professional and all of the software on the SFD2009 OpenEducationDisc so people [...]

We’re nearly to Software Freedom Day 2009! I will be down at the Computer Fair on Saturday, 19 September, giving away Ubuntu 9.04 CDs and a special OpenEducationDisc DVD. There are some extra goodies on the DVD I’ll have a Windows 7 Professional PC running the software from the DVD, so you can [...]

One of the problems with the rapid advances in open source software is keeping up with the latest releases. The most popular open source software is Mozilla Firefox, the cross platform web browser. I use Firefox on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X because of the speed, security, flexibility and wide range of add-ons.
Ubuntu 9.04, [...]

I have booked a table at the Computer Fair held at Bathurst Showgrounds on Saturday 19 September 2009. I will be giving away Ubuntu 9.04 CDs and the latest OpenDisc CDs as well as giving demonstrations of Ubuntu Linux and the OpenDisc software on Windows. This is actually the “official” day so I won’t be [...]

… or is it just Windows?
I’m setting up a new image for one of the classrooms with new software – Adobe CS4 Master Collection. The 80 GB hard drives are split into two equal parts – Windows XP and Ubuntu 8.10. Well Adobe CS4 Master Collection needs up to 24 GB of space if you [...]

I have an ADSL2+ Internet connection at home into my office and I’ve been with Internode for over 6 years now. They have a great support desk located in Adelaide and provide a great mix of “unmetered” content including ABC iView, numerous Internet Radio stations from around the world, an FTP server with plenty of [...]

I’ve been busy the last week or so building a new proxy server for Arts & IT Faculty at Bathurst TAFE. We were given a couple of Dell PowerEdge 1850 dual Xeon 3.4GHz CPU rackmount servers so I used one as a new web server and one as a new proxy server replacing a pair [...]