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Wow i never thought i would say this, but dell have done something right! I am sure after you look at the chat below you will want to check out the dell website! to see what they can do for you and your next PC.
I really can’t believe this cam off the Dell website. well check it out here! Sad to say i know but i might think i will be getting a Dell soon.
This probability was the best question to ask!
Well i own a hand full of domains relating to what i have been doing on the net (which i will list at the end of this blog post,) and there has been times i have seen a web address on TV and ‘googled’ it to see what it is. Just out of interest or sheer boredom, so i can see the logic in there madness i guess
The BBC has revealed 154 web addresses other than bbc.co.uk and bbc.com that it has registered.
Following a Freedom of Information request, the BBC confirmed that it owns URLs including bestmurders.co.uk, jellyparties.co.uk and watchagrownmanrot.co.uk. Many of the addresses on the list were a combination of the BBC and a language such as bbcfrench.com and bbcczech.com. Others related to characters and storylines from dramas and comedies.
Some were withheld because they contained programme spoilers.
A significant proportion of the sites were connected to former drama series or plotlines, such as badwolf.org.uk and singlessos.co.uk, which featured in earlier episodes of Doctor Who and Torchwood. read More at the BBC Website (Funny I know, I found this information on the BBC)
http://sicnet.co.uk/ = this is my main site where you will find lots of useful open-source information
http://santac.co.uk = this was a web design project that has been stopped now
http://gregdurrant.co.uk/ = well come on doesn’t everybody own the own name?
http://mypdfs.co.uk/ = this is a open source hosting website i run
http://my-pdf.co.uk/ = this is another domain pointing to mypdfs.co.uk
http://my-pdfs.co.uk/ = this is another domain pointing to mypdfs.co.uk
http://raeofsunshine.co.uk/ = this is my girlfriends site for her bespoke hand made greeting cards
Thieves have struck again in the virtual world Habbo Hotel.
Finnish police are investigating up to 400 cases of theft, with some members reporting the loss of up to €1000 (£840) worth of virtual furniture and other items, according to Detective Sergeant Marko Levonen.
"We have done five home searches in five cities in Finland," he said.
This is not the first time Habbo Hotel, which allows users to meet friends and buy virtual goods, has been targeted.
In 2007, a Dutch teenager was arrested for allegedly stealing virtual furniture worth thousands of euros on the site, which is believed to have more than 100 million registered "avatars"
is this just me or is this a little crazy? really i don’t get the whole building a new life online?
read the full article on the BBC News Website here
Google’s operating system Chrome OS, originally announced in July 2009, will debut this fall. There are still many unknowns about the OS, but we know that it will be a free operating system based on the Chrome browser, targeted at netbooks and designed to work with web applications.
“We are working on bringing the device later this fall,” Google’s Vice President of Product Management Sundar Pichai said at CompuTex
In a report by Financial times it apears that google have abandoned windows. this seems to be be from growing concerns after hackers from china attacked the search engin giant. for the full story Click Here.
In light of this and the Fact that Ubuntu have released there new Version of their world famous distro, Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid-lynx.) There could be no better time for home users to abandon windows as well? I use the Ubuntu disto alot in what i do and have not looked back yet. All my personal servers are now run on Ubuntu server edition. Even at work we have a Ubuntu Server (64bit) running our imaging server software Fog (FreeOpenGhost.) And a personal desktop PC running Ubuntu Desktop (64bit) linked to my Windows 7 workstation with Synergy.
Download Ubuntu Now @ www.ubuntu.com and start reaping the benifits today.
The BBC have released a graphic display on there website, to display the breakdown of supercomputing in the world. And if you look at the graph by OS you will see a big majority that is Linux! So hats off to the the open source cause.
View the graph @ BBC website here
But did you know that computer memory turns 59 years old this month!
yes 59!
I wanted to add a changing picture to my homepage of about 2/3 images. So I did a bit of “googling” and found this script. Here is a quick guide to installing it.
1. copy this code in to a text editor (I would suggest Notepad++ )
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// JavaScript Document //Pictures to switch inbetween var Rollpic1 = "img1.jpg"; //Start at the what pic: //SwitchPic Function if(counter < HowLongBetweenPic){ } |
and then save this script as change-pic.js and upload this script to a “script” folder in the root of your webserver.
Then change this part to point to the location where your files are kept
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//Pictures to switch inbetween var Rollpic1 = "img1.jpg"; |
2. Add this line of code between <head> </head>
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<script type=’text/javascript’ src=’scripts/pic-change.js’></script> |
3. Change the <body> tag in your html file to
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<body onload="SwitchPic(0)"> |
this file will be the file where you want to apply the changing image.
4. Where you want the changing image to be added, add this line
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<img src="img/advertise_here_logo.jpg" border="0" name="roll" height="200" width="350"> |
then change the ‘height’ and ‘width’ to fit the space where the image will be displayed.
5. Then open up your webpage and see if it has worked
I found this script @ http://www.draac.com/picture-roll.html if you would like to have a look at there explanation of installing this script to you webpage.
When i started my current job a couple of days into it i was introduced to a Open Source imaging service call ‘FOG’ and was hooked as its got great potential. But currently i have been challenged with moving it to a new location and server. And when i say ‘Challenged’ i mean ‘CHALLENGED!’ It has been a great experience where using a bit of my Ubuntu know-how and some coding knowledge i set out to get this server working.
The whole idea for my workplace for using fog is that we have over 400 PC’s and Laptops, and every now and then we need to roll them back to a “New Install state” as it would be a pain to reinstall Windows and all the applications every time a PC goes wrong. So we SysPrep a working machine and use that image to install a fresh stable working system.
“Good idea huh? well that’s what i mean by i was ‘hooked’ and the best bit is that it is completely FREE and OPEN-SOURCE!”
Well you think Fog is a good idea? well it gets better! Fog also has other built-in funtions such as ‘ DHCP Server, Print Server, NFS, PXE, FTP, HTTPD, and WOL’ so you could say it is not jst you Standard cloning Solution.
To get a copy of fog go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeghost/, and also have a look at there Brand New website! http://www.fogproject.org/
Keep a look out for my step by step guide to installing Fog 0.28 on Ubuntu 10.04 Server (as i could not find a full guide to install fog that works!)
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