Daily Archives: February 26, 2008


A GUI, A GUI – my kingdom for a GUI

It shouldn’t be that difficult – should it? A machine less than a year old from a major supplier (HP / Compaq) – where the task is to install a version of Linux that takes advantage of the hardware installed. As mentioned – it took the 64BIT AMD ALTERNATE CD iso burned to cd to […]


HP 6715S and Linux – a match made in hell

Recently I decided that I wanted a dual boot arrangement to have Vista and Linux on the same portable for use of customer sites. The range and depth of specialist linux network and security tools would me that the same machine could be used regardless of the os needed. Mmmmm That would assume that any […]


You can ring my bell !

Many years ago as a teenager I discovered I had a strange and not particularly useful talent – I could ring my mums front door bell by sneezing !! As I said not particularly something that you might require to be able to do but the thing to note is that some things go together […]