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Sunday, 27th November 2011 Home » Research Project » CyanogenMod
Posted by root at 14:16 in CyanogenMod
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I have just finished installing CyanogenMod 7.1 Alpha 3 on my HP TouchPad. Its gorgeous. I cant say I ever become a fan of WebOS, unlike some I've talked to it never grew on me and the rare times when I did want to make use of it the App Market was far too over priced and in my experience limited, but now with Android the device 'sings'

Sunday, 27th November 2011 Home » Blog
Posted by root at 12:30 in root's Blog

Its a gorgeous Sunday afternoon and I was just about to get stuck into my taxes when I noticed its been over a month since I bought my HP TouchPad, during its legendary fire-sale, with the intention of installing Android the first chance I got. Well I still haven't!

CyanogenMod 7.1 Alpha 3 has been out now for a few weeks so I decided this would be a far better use of my day, taxes will just have to wait. Expect to hear how I get on soon


Thursday, 24th November 2011 Home » Knowledge Base » Linux
Posted by root at 10:03 in Linux
One problem with my ever growing collection of movies and tv is the volume wars between formats. Add in music video downloads from iTunes and Amazon and the variabations become extreme. With a little creative searching I found an addon that can be added to the ALSA sounds system on my Ubuntu installation to this work on-the-fly

Monday, 9th May 2011 Home » Blog
Posted by root at 14:28 in root's Blog
This morning I came across this posting on a FreeBSD mail archive. I can't help thinking Microsofts' Outlook Express could be vastly improved if only these subjections were implemented...

Thursday, 5th May 2011 Home » Knowledge Base » The Internet
Posted by root at 12:02 in The Internet
For many years I have been using Webmin as means of quickly administrating the three servers I am responsible for. How ever when I was recently asked to setup a number of BIND9 DNS servers in a Master/Slave configuration I set about doing this manually as none of the servers in question had any form of web interface. This is how I setup three DNS servers to work in unison, one master and two slaves.

Wednesday, 4th May 2011 Home » Research Project » Linux
Posted by root at 14:46 in Linux
I was recently ask by a new Linux convert now they should go about acquiring an Anti-Virus application and whether I would recommend McAfee of Norton. Without going into my own opinions about which might be better or worse I aim to clear up some of the confusion surrounding Linux Anti-Virus applications and what they are actually intended for.I was recently ask by a new Linux convert now they should go about acquiring an Anti-Virus application and whether I would recommend McAfee of Norton.

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