I’ve just upgraded Kubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 using the distro upgrade tool rather than re-installing, there were one or two issues with unsupported software I’d installed manually in 8.04, but only SK1 remains unresolved. KDE 4 is big on eye-candy but a resource hog so I’ve switched off the ‘effects’ and it’s a lot more … Read more »
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Trustworthy Blogging
Can you trust this blog? Or any blog? I’ve no problem with blogs from regular media outlets, if you read Indyblogs or Telegraph.co.uk you known where they are coming from, the problem arises when you don’t know who’s paying the piper. A few years ago if you found some badly written rant about a product … Read more »
Open Office 3
Today’s Beginners’ Linux page features Open Office 3. Since writing it I’ve discovered a snag. Normally I rely on KDE’s ‘Save Current State’ feature so that when I boot my PC in the morning it opens all the stuff I was working on when I shut it down the night before. Normally it works like … Read more »
WordPress
I’ve had a static web site for a few years and gradually got better at designing them, but not good enough and the rest of the world has been getting better quicker, so I’m setting up a new one on a new domain using wordpress. If you’ve stumblemd across it already, don’t tell me what’s … Read more »