Is OpenSuse a viable Ubuntu alternative?
There’s lots of forums and even 3 or 4 releases in I still hear people talking about how much they dislike Unity, which is a shame because it’s turning into quite a nice Gui from where i’m sitting, however one thing Linux has is choice. If nothing else there are other solid, stable distributions out there which offer a user a good solid alternative. Once such example is maybe OpenSUSE.
If Tablets are selling so well, why are few of the big players taking them seriously?
This week a leading industry analyst firm IDC predicted that by the end of this year tablet computers would be outselling laptops and by 2015 be outselling PCs of any other class. While the claim itself is not that big, as its obvious to see that tablet computing has caught the consumers mind in a huge way, and Gartner have predicted similar trends. I do have to ask the question, if the future of computing is tablets, why is it such a mess?
Are 500px's days numbered since Flickr's reboot?
Flickr was for very very long the site for photos, photographers and all things camera, it was the place to show off your talents, it was free, and all about the groups. However post Yahoo purchase and not much love, the tide changed and a new upstart hit the scene called 500px. Growing very quickly 500px has received a huge number of plaudits and grown in leaps and bounds..
However has Flickr’s recent reboot and 1Tb of data given people enough to come back?
Ubuntu 13.04, Xbmc, Nvidia ION on the AS Rock 330
I’ve been writing a guide like this for the last 6 versions of Ubuntu because as a cord cutter it’s how I watch my TV. The first time I set this up, it wasn’t so easy, this time other than remembering one small thing, it pretty much works..
How i would like to use Google and my Photos
With Google’s announcement today that 3 become one when it comes to storage space, and its all Google Drive now rather than Google+, gMail and Drive. I got to thinking in to what Google could add to Plus to expand it and take it to places Facebook can’t even imagine going.
Setting up a serial console | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
This tutorial will show you how to set up a serial console on a Linux system, and connect to it via a null modem cable. This is quite useful if your Linux server is in a headless configuration no keyboard or monitor, as it allows you to easily get a console on the system if there are any problems with it especially network problems, when SSH is not available. In the end, the GRUB menu will appear over the serial link, as will the bootup messages output when booting the system. Im using Debian Etch on the server and Ubuntu Edgy on my client, although this should work on any Linux
Enabling Dual Factor Authentication on Linux SSH logins..
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post on using a Chromebook to develop on a cloud platform. Its based on a Digital Ocean remote server and like most people who wish to attach to the command line interface on a remote server I use SSH. It’s an encrypted connection over the network/internet from end to end. However being a cloud server I was wondering if it was possible to secure this a little bit more?
A chat with a friend on the way into work provided me with a solution.
Getting a bit more out of crouton on a Chromebook
I recently wrote a post about using a cloud based VPS for doing development work on, it was pointed out to me in a Google+ conversation that this could be done equally as well with the Crouton installer.
Its true that most of the posts i’ve found on the internet cover running the default installer which will get you a Unity Shell Ubuntu 12.04 LTS i386 install. I’ve also covered in a different post that it’s possible to get the latest Ubuntu 13.04 Raring running with a few command line tweaks to the crouton installer.
The github Readme File (https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton) has a really good readme which explains how its possible to really do much more with this excellent script.
Windows Phone, the Apps, the Phone..
I’ve had my Nokia Lumia 920 since November 2012 and I chose the phone because i was fedup with just how staid and old Android was feeling, and an iPhone was old hat. WP8 was the new kid on the block and I wanted to give it a go..
So what are my thoughts on the Phone, the OS and the Apps?
Generally speaking I have nothing bad to say about the phone or the OS expect for two small bugs i’ve had over the past few months. so lets cover off the bad stuff first and then move to the highlights..
Being safe in the cloud...
Storing your data in the cloud is a no brainer for most poeple, its an obvious place to store it and why not, however if services like dropbox have taught us one thing about this new web based storage, its that it is not 100% safe. So how can we use these services AND be a bit safer? Simple, easy and free is the answer, well file encryption is the answer actually, but is is those three things.
I found this on the web and it is really good at what it does, its free, and its cross platform as well..
If your going to disrupt the Status Quo, you've got to think different..
Mark Shuttleworth has the potential of being this Generations Steve Jobs and he is planning on doing to Ubuntu what Jobs did for Apple. He seems to be taking that think different philosophy Jobs had with Apple and applying it to the Linux Distribution he sponsors Ubuntu.
