Vista Upgrade
After a week of using Vista, my advice is to hold off upgrading until Service Pack 1 gets released. Vista in it’s current state seems to be a complete mess. Read more…
How to protect your PC from spyware
A week or two ago I wrote a short rant complaining about the quality of AVG’s free anti-virus software. Although not strictly the same thing, spyware is quite a big problem on a lot of home PCs. Read more…
Ubuntu 6.10: A Follow Up
A few weeks ago I wrote a short couple of paragraphs on Ubuntu Linux and how easy it was to install for the home user. That’s all fine and dandy, but would a home user be able to cope with something so different? Was I able to cope with it as my main OS? Read more…
Installing Vista
With Microsoft’s new flagship desktop operating system, Windows Vista, released in January I thought I’d have a go at installing it to see how it stacks up. Read more…
Free PC Protection
A very quick post for this evening. The last couple of days I’ve been running AVG’s free anti-virus application to see if you can really get top quality software for your PC for nothing. Well, over the last few days I’ve had memory leaks and crashes all over the place and using my PC has slowed to a crawl. Read more…
Moving from Blogger to WordPress
Well, what a Sunday today has been. I’ve been to the gym, Chelsea have beaten Everton, West Ham have won their first game under Alan Curbishley – against Manchester United, no less – and I’ve spent a rather large amount of time moving my blog away from Blogger and onto my own web space, powered by WordPress and Streamline.net.
Installing Ubuntu 6.10
For most people computer software is what comes with their computer. Usually this means some combination of Windows XP Home Edition, Internet Explorer, perhaps Microsoft’s Works suite and some CD/DVD writing software. The average user doesn’t tend to do upgrades either and as such, the uptake of open source software is relatively small outside the commercial and geeky community.
Mozy
Anyone seen Mozy? It’s a great little application. If you’re anything like me (and for your sake I hope you’re not), you’ll know that you should be making regular backups of your important data. But if you’re anything like me, more often than not you either forget or just plain can’t be arsed.
Buying a new laptop
I had a bit of a dilemma recently. I needed to get myself a new laptop and I wanted a MacBook Pro. However, I didn’t have a spare £1,700 knocking around for the 15″ model I wanted. So, what did I do? Did I rob a bank? Did I buy one of the crappier MacBooks? Or did I buy something wholly different?
How To: Install a Linux operating system for maximising VMware resources
Installing VMware on a Linux server is a cheap and easy way to get virtual machines up and running. In order to maximise system resources for VMware, an absolutely minimal Linux base operating environment provides the ideal platform to build upon.
