I’m trying to get a demo of a Tablet PC in Brisbane and I’m hoping Scoble can weave some of his magic. It’s not for me it’s for my girlfriend who is studying graphic design. I’m sure it would be perfect for her especially for some of her art subject’s however I’ve spoken to just […]

I’ve been logging a couple of computers Samba computers onto my Active Directory setup in the last couple of days, while I wouldn’t call this a pleasant process and I wish it was easier it’s reasonably straightforward. There is some great documentation on the net which I’m going to link to some of it here, […]

Marco Tabini just wrote about the new PHP search engine, BeebleX. I’m curious as to how the documents that it indexes are determined. I believe this is a perfect use for tags. What I mean by this is BeebleX could subscribe to the RSS feed on del.icio.us and Technorati for the tags, php and php5. […]

I spent a fair amount of time in the last couple of days trying to do some fairly advanced configuration of network interfaces on a couple of Ubuntu boxes today. Basically the Debian package ifup when run will run every script in /etc/network/if-up.d/ it set’s the environment variable IFACE for each script while doing this. […]