I’ve written a lot about tablets over the last few months and indeed I now own a Windows 7 tablet myself, the ExoPC Slate.  It didn’t take much use of this device to become disillusioned with the modern web as it stands today and I can’t help but wonder if the future of the web [...]

Categories: The Web, Web Development

How many times have you had networking issues and not known exactly where to start? With Linux there are so many tools you can choose from. Add to that the choice between console and GUI and you have the making for a rather confusing start. Most new Linux users (and many of those who have [...]

Categories: Advice, Hardware, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Server, Software, troubleshooting, Tutorials Basic

Back when I first started using Linux nearly all Linux systems were truly multi-user systems. Because of this the finger command was an important tool to keep handy. What finger does is report information on a user. So if you wanted to know the phone number, office number, if the user had mail, etc you [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, Server, Software, Tutorials Basic