A useful tip for WordPress users…

I really like WordPress. I have used Blogger, use Typepad regularly and tried other systems but WordPress seems to do all I want quickly, easily, slickly and for free!
Now I love the RSS technology that enables a website to publish a series of articles or pages so that other sites can syndicate them and make [...]

This Linux thing

If you are wondering what is all this Linux thing about then perhaps this little explanation will help!
Linux is the core of an operating system, like Windows or Mac OS X, and is a variant of Unix if you have ever heard of that. The Linux kernel is at the heart of the Gnu/Linux Operating [...]

16th Birthday

Sixteen  years ago Linus Tovalds wrote this little email as he launched a little project he had spent most of the summer  working on…

From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
Summary: small poll for my new operating system
Message-ID: <1991Aug25.205708.9541@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT
Organization: University of [...]

Blog This!

The last few weeks have been quiet here in Brussels  as it is holiday time. However, I have been having a lot of fun interacting with YWAMers all over the globe! From Australia to England and who knows where!

What I have been doing is getting a website up and running http://www.planetywam.net. What this site does [...]

A terrible ache in all the diodes down my left side…

For a long time now I have had an annoying problem here in the YWAM building in that all the computers on the left hand side of the building would run very slowly over the network; not slowly enough to stop work from happening, but slow enough.
We used to have a recurring problem on Monday’s [...]

Sharing Windows printers with computers running Linux

One of the things that I have found hardest to get working over the years is printing to a printer attached to a Windows machine from my Linux machines. In general Linux will print to about everything and even has some success with those cheap GDI laser printers that rely on Windows to render pages. [...]

Community software

I have been messing around with computer since my Dad bought me one in 1980ish. I am a bit of a geek I guess. However I am most fascinated right now with what I think is the most exciting development in the whole field of computing and the area shaping the whole industry and use [...]