2009: A Year in Review

I don’t usually go down for end-of-year reviews, but 2009 is a special case. It’s heralded huge shifts in the technology industry, and shows us there’s plenty of promise for the coming decade. Content On Demand This year has seen an explosion of on-demand streaming services making use of new high-speed broadband connections. Missed your [...]

The Latest Setup

I’ve finally found a Linux setup I’m wholly happy with (or at least mostly…) On my Sony VAIO it now dual-boots Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid” and Windows Vista SP1. Though using Vista is not particularly ideal, it does run all the latest and greatest apps which most of the world want me to run. On Ubuntu [...]

Gnome Do Doesn’t

Yes, as the title suggests, the very latest Gnome Do (Version 0.8) is a complete pain in the neck to set up. Fedora 10 is a great distro and is a real competitor to Ubuntu, but this week it has shown just how far from cutting-edge the Fedora team really is. In attempting to install [...]