https://www.skwashd.net/tags/linux/Recent content in linux on Dave Hall (@skwashd)Hugo -- gohugo.ioenSat, 20 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-02-20-western-digital-my-book-world-edition-licensing-and-gpl/Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2010-02-20-western-digital-my-book-world-edition-licensing-and-gpl/Earlier today I purchased a Western Digital My Book World Edition (MBWE) 1Tb NAS as I needed a simple NAS.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2009-10-02-goodbye-phpgroupware/Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2009-10-02-goodbye-phpgroupware/I am writing this post with a strong sense of sadness. At the same time I feel that I have no other option.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2009-09-16-brotherhood-books-launches-giving-books-second-chance/Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2009-09-16-brotherhood-books-launches-giving-books-second-chance/In late 2008 I worked on building an online second hand bookstore for the Brotherhood of St Laurence.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2008-02-10-flakey-bios-gigabyte-ga-m68sm-s2l-makes-mac-address-change-reboot/Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2008-02-10-flakey-bios-gigabyte-ga-m68sm-s2l-makes-mac-address-change-reboot/Over the weekend I have been setting my new Mythbuntu pair, a split back end and front end.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-11-18-my-new-toy-nokia-n95/Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-11-18-my-new-toy-nokia-n95/About 7 weeks ago I bought a Nokia N95 and I love it. I considered the Neo 1973 from openMoko, a completely open phone platform was appealing, but at the end of the day it isn’t certified for Australia, it doesn’t have WIFI or a camera nor does it do HSDPA/3G, all things on my must have list.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-09-28-ubuntu-gutsy/Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-09-28-ubuntu-gutsy/For the last few weeks I have been running the upcoming Ubuntu 7.10 release (aka Gutsy Gibbon) on my laptop, which is also my primary PC.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-08-22-facebook-5bil-waste-time-or-major-cash-cow-peddlers-fud/Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-08-22-facebook-5bil-waste-time-or-major-cash-cow-peddlers-fud/On Monday, Fairfax and others were running a story about how employees using Facebook could cost companies a fortune in lost productivity.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-08-02-tux-cake/Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-08-02-tux-cake/While waiting to be served at a newsagents today I noticed The Australian Women’s Weekly Party Animals: Birthday Cakes for Kids sitting there on the counter.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-05-26-os-x-and-macs-windows-killer/Sat, 26 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-05-26-os-x-and-macs-windows-killer/For the last week I have almost exclusively been using a PowerPC Mac - claimed by Apple to be a great platform just a few years a ago.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-03-27-linux-better-environment/Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2007-03-27-linux-better-environment/TechWorld has a story about how the UK government is recommending the adoption of Linux and FOSS as it better for the environment.https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2006-11-22-sun-sunfire-t2000-rev2-and-ubuntu-dapper-6-06/Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000https://www.skwashd.net/posts/2006-11-22-sun-sunfire-t2000-rev2-and-ubuntu-dapper-6-06/A couple of months ago I received a shiny new Sun SunFire T2000. It is a monster 1 CPU with 8 cores, each capable of running 4 threads each (that is 32 concurrent threads) 8G of RAM and 2 x 73.