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Karmic Kubuntu, now there’s a contradiction in terms!

Hollow — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:08:04 +0000

After spending a bit of time away from Ubuntu installations and staying with Debian, I finally went back to Kubuntu with Jaunty(9.04) and only because it had KDE4.2 and I’d finally got bored with KDE3.x.x. When KDE4.3 was released I immediately upgraded to it and was extremely impressed, but it simply had something lacking still [...]

Linux Laptops, netbooks, splashtops and zealots on both sides of the fence

Hollow — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:02:39 +0000

Linux and Apple are both increasing their market share for desktops I’ve just been reading an article by one of my favourite columnists/bloggers - http://blogs.computerworld.com/14749/shh_hp_sneaks_linux_in_on_new_laptops - now this guy isn’t one of my favorites because of what he writes, what he writes about or even how he writes it, no, he’s one of my favorites because [...]

PHP Tutorial 1.0 - How to write an html form using post

Hollow — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:44:39 +0000

I’ve decided to re-write my PHP How To’s. This is the first, it doesn’t actually include any PHP, instead this tutorial simply shows you how to setup a basic HTML form with two input boxes and a button, the tutorial following this one will explain how to write a php script that will receive the [...]

Will adobe ever release the Creative Suite on Linux natively?

Hollow — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:20:09 +0000

I didn’t think Adobe would ever release Creative Suite natively for Linux And the fact is they still might never do it. But, and believe me this is a big BUT, through the course of something completely different and irrelevant, I had the ear of a Senior Engineering Manager in the Installation, Deployment and Licensing department [...]

Purism isn’t a bad thing but shut up!

Hollow — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:47:52 +0000

Does a purist attitude hurt the development of Linux? When you have something like Linux which is available FOR free and IS free, you have the inevitable issues of people taking advantage of the situation and giving nothing in return. This is something that unfortunately is just a fact of life, if you offer something at [...]

GParted and Clonezilla, I couldn’t be more impressed!

Hollow — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:24:32 +0000

Over the years I’ve been a helpdesk agent, a telecommunications network administrator, an I.T. engineer, a .NET programmer, a web applications programmer and a Linux evangelist (The last one is a full time job but it doesn’t pay as well as the others). Needless to say that in these roles and over such a long [...]

Gaming in Linux is more fun than ever

Hollow — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:22:13 +0000

When I first got in to Linux as a hobby many years ago, and just like many others did, gaming was an un-spoken subject. I wanted to play Half Life and Counter Strike in Linux and I was pretty much told to forget it. Not being the sort of person to really just forget anything, [...]

Linux for the Graphic Design Professional

Gremlette — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:52:15 +0000

What is available for the Graphic Designer on Linux? I think it is probably safe to say, that if you have searched for this article, you may already realise the benefits of dumping the Windows or Mac installation …. but what about all that proprietry software that you have been using for years? I agree that it is [...]

Laycat, Kyklo, Aceleo maliscious? … I say hmmm

Gremlette — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:42:17 +0000

Laycat, Kyklo, what next?…and even admits is ‘cloaking’ itself When I was looking through my November website logs, Laycat and Kyclo were of the highest visiting robots above Yahoo and Google. Of course, I googled it to see what on earth it was and sure enough other people were also complaining it was their highest visitor. It [...]

Custom and Template don’t go together!

Hollow — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:24:11 +0000

Custom, Web design? - not at Xtra New Zealand - Its all pay for poor DIY tools After doing some research in the Waitakere area recently we discovered that a lot of companies out West don’t actually have a website, with some further research we discovered that some do, but it’s just a holding page or [...]