Last 10 posts from the blog

FTP From Anywhere

Posted on June 30, 2009, 11:48 am

If you can't use FTP due to firewall/proxy restrictions at your workplace or if you just don't have an FTP client installed on your computer (and you can't use the command line ;-) ) you can use net2ftp. Essentially it's a GPL licensed, web based FTP client so can be accessed from anywhere. I guess i [...]

Wireless Issues Resolved

Posted on June 26, 2009, 1:48 pm

A few months back I mentioned how I had just bought a Linksys WRT610N dual band router. From day one the wireless performance was very disappointing (it briefly seems OK after installing Intel PROset Wireless software but that didn't last long) and I've tried everything to fix the problem. My main symptoms were. Very low b [...]

Custom Filenames Using Apache

Posted on June 23, 2009, 10:43 am

If you look at any page on Ars Technica (like this one for example) you will see that they use an extention of '.ars'. It's very easy to set up Apache to do the same so you can use any extension you want. Even if [...]

Moblin Updates

Posted on June 19, 2009, 1:34 pm

I just installed the Moblin beta refresh created on 07-06-2009 and just for interest tried the update software setting. I was rather surprised that there were already 270 updates totalling 279MB (this was only 11 days after the release). [...]

The Easy Way to Install a WAMP Server

Posted on June 18, 2009, 2:40 pm

I regularly use Apache, MySQL and PHP on Linux and have configured the classic LAMP set up many times before. I've also set up IIS and ASP.NET on Windows many times but until recently had never tried a WAMP server (basically the same as LAMP but on Wi [...]

XMLHttp, UTF-8 and Foreign Characters

Posted on June 5, 2009, 2:23 pm

Living in Denmark I always have to develop sites that support the extra characters found in Danish names (ø,å,æ plus Swedish, Norwegian and all the other European characters). For this reason I always use UTF-8 encoding to avoid and problems with displaying the characters. [...]

Microsoft Sees Sense Over Windows 7 Starter

Posted on June 2, 2009, 11:22 am

It's all over the news but I'm happy to see that Microsoft have lifted the artificial 3 application limit on Windows 7 Started Edition. As much as this would have made life easier for Linux to compete it's also ironic that t [...]

I am Microsoft Support

Posted on May 26, 2009, 10:44 am

Like many people who are interested in IT one of my secondary functions is to help friends and family 'fix' their computers. Of course I'm happy to do this but sometimes problems just make me want to tear my hair out (I'm of course talking about Windows Vista here). This time it was trying to fix a [...]

Moblin v2.0 beta Impressions

Posted on May 25, 2009, 7:43 am

Since my last post I've downloaded the Moblin v2.0 beta img file and installed the img using Virtualbox. It's easy to install, just use the img file as you would a regular iso file so set Virtualbox to boot from the img file. The only gotcha is to remember to enable PAE/NX in the general settings, I seem to forget this every time but the [...]

Moblin Goes Beta

Posted on May 20, 2009, 1:24 pm

I just read that Intel has released a beta version of the Moblin OS for netbooks. This replaces XFCE used on the alpha release with the new Intel interface. I've yet to give it a try but I'll post some screen shots when it's running in VirtualBox. Update - I've just realised [...]