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It’s coming to that time when the elections for the fedora famsco team are to be held.  Currenly we have no nominations so i’d like to fix that now. I’d like to nominate Maria ‘Tatica’ Leandro [she will probably kill me for this ] I’m sure you’re all aware of all the great work she [...]

Don’t ya just love spam, luckily being in the computer industry for a few years i know what to look for, however it all comes down to education you either know or you don’t and this could catch you out. Take this email from [well it appears to be from] facebook telling me that the [...]

Normally i love my trip to work, I’m on a motorbike so it’s quite an easy ride, except today. It’s raining, and as usual it brings out the morons. Not only did i have to contend with the “oooo didn’t see you” muppets [please bear in mind i'm 6'6 and wearing a lumo jacket] but [...]

Are you into Social Media? Do you know what it is? Maybe this will help you – link #1 or how about a video? #link 2

I’ve been thinking for a long time, I need to move my blog forward, so I’ve been thinking about Video blogs. I need to work out the details, but I’m going to work on a few short ones. In these blog posts I’m going to talk briefly about the Fedora Ambassador project, what it is, [...]

It only seems two mins ago since the birth of my son Jimmy, time certainly does fly when your having fun.  has it been fun?  yeah mostly, i’m sure all parents can say it’s not all fun, especially the late feeds, the no sleep etc etc.  It’s especially hard on the mums and my bec [...]

You’ve just installed Fedora 11 onto your desktop/laptop and it’s working a treat, but before you actually start using it for work/play etc there are always things you do to it first…….Here’s my brief list, what’s yours? 1, Enable the RPM Fusion repo 2, yum install yum-presto 3, yum install broadcom-wl [for my laptops wireless] [...]

Yes that’s right i said funk. I’m basically at a point where computers are really boring me, i can’t believe i said that, but it’s true. I do use them for a bit of photo editing, email, surfin and have a vps that i run websites on, but yeah whoop de doo! With the latest [...]

I’ve moved my websites to a vps solution, which one did I go with? well after speaking to a friend of mine , thanks lyz i went with Linode. All mail, web and irssi services have been moved, if you see any sillyness let me know To be honest i’m quite impressed, there are a [...]