Monthly Archive: December 2008

Slik Pro 780DX – it’s HUGE!

Slik Pro 780DX – it’s HUGE!

I got home last night and my new acquisition had arrived. Just after Christmas I decided to order a Slik Pro 780DX Tripod kit from Morris Photo after reading good reviews in Photo Plus...

VSFTPD, chroot, mount –bind & fstab

VSFTPD, chroot, mount –bind & fstab

While I’m still setting up my new Fedora server, today’s task was getting an FTP server up and running. I wanted the same kind of functionality with VSFTPD as I had with Serv-U on...

Fedora 10, 4GB, PAE

Fedora 10, 4GB, PAE

So after recently installing Fedora 10 on a half decent machine and running VMWare Server 2.0, I discovered I didn’t really have enough memory in the host machine. A measly 2GB was blitzed by...

Fedora 10 – Being geeky

Fedora 10 – Being geeky

I’ve been running my own mail server for quite some time now and also hosting some apps and what not from a Windows Server 2003 box gathering dust in my basement. Recently I decided...

Logic 1 – UK Government (Stasi) 14

Logic 1 – UK Government (Stasi) 14

It’s a small win but hopefully has significant ramifications for the ID card and DNA databases that our democratically elected government believes will stop all crime and keep all terrorists in check (they wish)....

New toys :) Samsung NC-10!

New toys :) Samsung NC-10!

About a month ago a colleague was looking in to buying a netbook. I’d been toying with the idea of a portable computer for a long while and ummed and ahh’d about a new...