Strangely Perfect

Introduction These shots are primarily for the benefit of my friend. Virtual Box Sun’s (now Oracle’s) VirtualBox application allows computer users to run a variety of Operating Systems (OS) on virtually any computer operating system.  This is the VirtualBox homepage. For example: Windows XP on Mac Solaris on Windows XP Windows 7 32-bit on Windows [...]

What is the Best Backup for Windows in a Small Home or Office? Which Windows Backup?  A History. Over the years I’ve tried many systems for backing up crucial Windows data.  Currently for small-scale backups I use the ubiquitous and almost bullet-proof flash drives, my current one tipping the scales at 8Gb.  But for major [...]

I’m looking at getting a new host for (at some of) my domains. ixWebHosting who I’ve used for some time, keep falling over and I’m getting a bit fed up with apologetic support ticket replies and no change in service.  For about a year they were quite reasonable but since the server move out of [...]

Well it’s a sort of birthday.  As of 23:31:30 today, UNix will be 1234567890 seconds old! Google has celebrated with yet another unique graphic for the occasion.  Click on the link below for a Google search on this string: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=unix+1234567890&ct=unix1234567890&oi=ddle Unix’s calendar started the first second after the end of the sixties.  Like all clocks [...]

This is just a little follow up to and earlier post.  Secunia, in their latest weekly summary to me, state this: VIRUS ALERTS: During the past week Secunia collected 215 virus descriptions from the Antivirus vendors. However, none were deemed MEDIUM risk or higher according to the Secunia assessment scale. ==================================================== 3) This Weeks Top [...]

Hi Constance. You are lucky to get through – you nearly went into the automatic de-spammer with a subject heading of “Greetings and Intro”!!!Your family history is interesting. Trouble is, everyone in England is related to someone – especially in Somerset! They pulled a body out of the bog near here, pre-Stonehenge, and the DNA [...]

Paul Check out this 3 page article about ubuntu. While not being specific about music software, it gives quite a good history, and insight into the future, of plans for Ubuntu with regard to the founder’s and other developer’s motives. And stuff. http://www.itpro.co.uk/features/118738/is-ubuntu-the-way-forward-for-linux.html

Did you code your web site or are you using some kind of web designer? Do you use a stripped down version of Windows XP. What do you know about Linux as an OS? I tired of all the extraneous stuff that comes with XP. I want it stripped back to its core OS, just [...]