Has anyone else noticed a large amount of ping backs to link farms from Planet Ubuntu feeds over the last few days? I’m getting a fair few. I’d give an example but if I link to a site that takes my posts from a syndicated site and creates posts that are syndicated on other sites [...]
Category Archives: Computing
Samsung NC10 – a pleasant Ubuntu experience
It’s another year and I’m deploying next week. One of the few perks that entails is VAT exemption at PC World. I had decided some time ago to retire my Acer Aspire One A110L, this seems a sensible opportunity. I need the following:
Very good battery life
No solid state disk (SSD) – they’re too small and [...]
A Windows post (gasp)
Windows software tends to abstract any kind of technicality from the user, except when it comes to ripping. For some reason, this requires a myriad dropdowns. I’m computer literate and I struggle.
Updated Wiki page for Huawei E1550
Following up on older post, I realised the instructions for Fedora were wrong.
The page is now updated and I’ve tested it with a Huawei E1550 on an Acer Aspire One A110 running Fedora 11.
http://wiki.lynxworks.eu/misc/e1550#fedora
Hey Presto (sorry)
Fedora 11 has Presto support, enabling Delta RPMs in yum.
This means that the difference between a patched and un-patched binary are downloaded and applied rather than the entire package. Furthermore, because this is applied to the installed binary, there is no need to have the un-patched RPM. This offers substantial decreases in download sizes during [...]




