These pages list Linux related blog entries originating from my Personal Blog Website at watkissonline.co.uk.
01 July 2009
If you use any of the social network websites then you've almost certainly heard about the launch of Firefox 3.5. The reason for this is that Firefox has tapped into it's fan base and community spirit to promote the launch of the new browser.
I am one of those ...
30 June 2009
Firefox 3.5 is here. There is a lot of buzz on the Internet about Firefox today for the official launch of version 3.5.
Firefox is a web browser that runs on various operating systems (including Windows, Mac and Linux) and is available completely Free.
I've been running the pre-release versions ...
03 June 2009
I keep going on about Open Source Software and the risk that software patents poses. This is why I think these are so important.
Free and open source software is an important part of many things we take for granted.
Free and open source ...
02 June 2009
I have already posted that I believe that software patents are the biggest threat to free and open source software. Software patents do nothing to improve the quality of software and create a major barrier to all but the big software companies.
The Free Software Pact has been forged ...
20 May 2009
I've recently bought an Asus Eee PC with Linux (customised version of Xandros) pre-installed.
This is a mini tutorial on accessing and getting the most out of the the command line interface (CLI) on the Eee PC.
Although the Eee PC customised Linux GUI hides the workings of Linux behind the ...
16 May 2009
The Firefox browser has now become the most stylish and easiest to customise. This is all possible thanks to a new feature from the Mozilla Labs called Personas.
It's always been possible to customise Firefox using themes, but themes were hard to implement and used for changing the look of ...
13 May 2009
27 April 2009
The latest version of Ubuntu version 9.04 has been released. This release has been given the codename Jaunty Jackalope.
I've been anticipating this release of Ubuntu as there were some packages that were still on old version numbers on 8.10. For example OpenOffice.org version 3 missed the previous release. There ...
22 April 2009
During my day job I often have to arrange for network cabling spanning large distances within a data centre. As our data centre space is getting bigger and occupying more of the building we are hitting these problems more.
Here is a rough guide to the maximum lengths of ...
19 April 2009
My first impressions when I started my Asus Eee PC were:
Tim Burners Lee has already taken www for the World Wide Web so it looks like Asus had to satisfy ...