Category Archives: Computing

Samsung Galaxy Portal – Update

After using the Samsung Galaxy Portal for a while, there are things I love about it, and a few I don’t.

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Use JABBER to Chat to Your Router & its Devices

It’s been a while since I’ve done anything with these pages, and since then, a lot has changed. Both the hardware I’m using and the Internet Services available. When I first looked at using the sweex router for hardware control, … Continue reading

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Install Debian Linux on a G3 Imac

Recently I was given a G3 Imac (500Mhz with slot loading cd).  Several linux distros are available for PowerPC machines, so I thought I’d have a try at loading one.

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EeePC, Portable Hdd & 3G Phone – On The Road!

Last week, I got a chance to use the system live, I was away for a week with only the EeePC system and a three.co.uk 3G phone from Sony for a modem.  All did not go well!

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A VPS in the Home/Office

If a VMWare Server/Workstation or VMWare Player make life easy when mixing Linux and Windows on a single system, then a VPS will wipe the floor with them if you need to run several Linux environments and are not worried … Continue reading

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(Portable) Virtual Machines

I have used VMWare Workstation and more recently VMWare Player to both allow me to run Linux and Windows on the same computer and run several instances of Linux - to keep projects seperate from each other and to allow new versions … Continue reading

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