Practice run through of my programme for the British Adult Championships in Sheffield on 1st March 2009. The programme is 1 minute 37 seconds long. The music used is Wonderful Land by The Shadows.
Archives for February 2009
Asus EeePC alternative Operating System
The EeePC was the first of a new generation of notebook computers now referred to as netbooks. These small, ultra-portable and low priced computers came installed with a customised Xandros Linux distribution, which whilst suitable for new computer users severely limited what more experienced users could do. Several EeePC customised versions of Linux distributions rapidly […]
Installing OpenOffice 3
EeeBuntu 2 is based upon Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex release) which sadly does not include OpenOffice.org 2.4.1 in the official repositories used for installing software onto a Ubuntu based PC. However, if you want the latest and greatest version of the free OpenOffice suite its relatively straightforward to install.
Encrypt home partition on SD Card
The Asus Eee PC is sufficiently small and portable that it is easy to take with you when you’re out and about. Which also increases the risk of it getting lost or stolen. The data on the Eee may be more valuable that the computer itself so I wanted to set up my Home directory […]
Dropbox – Sync in the cloud
Synchronise documents and files between multiple computers regardless of whether they’re Windows, Linux or Mac. Dropbox is an excellent free service that uses Amazon’s S3 technology to make file synchronisation easy to use, secure, quick and, lets not forget, free.
Early Skating Attempt
Whilst on holiday in Canada during the Summer of 2006 we visited the West Edmonton Mall. This Mall proudly proclaims to be the worlds largest shopping and entertainment complex. It even includes an Ice Rink! I decided that it would be fun to try to skate, having only been on the ice once before as […]