Linux News - Blog Pages
These pages list Linux related blog entries originating from my Personal Blog Website at watkissonline.co.uk .
10 August 2010
There have been some rogue Facebook applications that are being used to gain access to information on individual's profiles.
The latest one has now been blocked, but I'm sure there will be more to follow: Security concerns over latest rogue Facebook app.
The controls put in by Facebook to protect against ...
22 July 2010
I follow a number of technology websites, video and podcasts when I get the time. This video has hit me as a bit of a surprise as it's from someone that is normally pro-linux. Here's my response to the issues raised.
First here's the video:
19 July 2010
Sometimes you need to know your IP address. Sometimes it needs to be the real IP address that you appear as on the Internet and not just the fake one that your local router uses. An example is when I blocked access from visitors whilst upgrading my blog .
12 July 2010
In an ideal world your website would be up 24 hours a day 7 days a week. You'd perform upgrades on an identical system and seamlessly cut over without any customers noticing, and that would be available at no extra cost. Back in the real world and you soon ...
23 June 2010
I have now upgraded Wordpress to version 3.0.
Wordpress provides the website and blog on Watkissonline, as well as uploading posts to the First Aid Quiz and Penguin Tutor web site. See: Website powered by Wordpress.
Version 3.0 provides numerous new features providing more CMS features, as well as multi-site ...
02 June 2010
I've used the Facebook Connect social plugins to provide a comments feature to my website blogs (see: Blog comments using Facebook connect social plugins).
The reason I added this was because of the way that I create my blog. I use Wordpress as my blog engine running on my ...
26 May 2010
The latest version of Ubuntu Linux version 10.04, codenamed Lucid Lynx was released at the end of April. As usual I upgraded my computers to the latest version, but took a phased and cautious approach just in case.
At home I have three computers (plus one that my daughter ...
24 May 2010
I've added a new comment feature to my blogs on WatkissOnline.co.uk, FirstAidQuiz.com and PenguinTutor.com. I've chosen to use the Facebook comment feature. If you have a Facebook account then you can add comments using your Facebook login and it means that the comments can be shared with friends on ...
12 May 2010
I've recently being trying out the new Unity interface for Ubuntu. It's in development at the moment so it's not really ready for mainstream use yet, but it's going to be the main interface to Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) in the next few months, so I thought I'd take ...
07 April 2010
The Royal Air Force museum located at RAF Cosford is a free museum consisting of dozens of planes in 3 large indoor hangers. It may not be the first place you think to take toddlers, but with bad weather forecast and with a couple of other expensive days out ...
