Spotify is a great application that lets you listen to any music they have (there’s an incredible amount on there) with the odd, almost unnoticable, advert thrown in to pay for the service. It works on windows or mac, but there is no native binaries for linux. Thankfully spotify for windows works under [...]
Just had to make a few changes to a website I own that means changing the same text in lots of files. Linux has lots of powerful tools to enable you to make this kind of change over lots of files over many directories very easily. The command is:
find . -type f | [...]
Alien is a nice little linux utility that converts .rpm software packages to .deb packages so that you can install software packaged for Red Hat on Debian and Ubuntu, etc. Clever. But for those of us on the lpia architecture (like the dell mini 9) we require those .deb files that Alien spits out to [...]
A worm that spreads through low security networks, memory sticks, and PCs without the latest security updates is posing a growing threat to users.
The malicious program, known as Conficker, Downadup, or Kido was first discovered in October 2008.
Although Microsoft released a patch, it has gone on to infect 3.5m machines.
via BBC NEWS | Technology | [...]
Ok, my last article for a while on netbooks! I found this quote in business week - its a decent article about the trouble netbooks are causing for the computer industry. Anything that causes trouble for Microsoft makes for interesting reading if you ask me. I would be really interested in hearing about Microsoft’s reaction [...]
