Category Archives: Linux

Get sudo working on Fedora 7

Posted on 20/7/2007 by ShadyCraig

A handy feature of Fedora 7 (and most Linux’s) is to be able to run a command as admin (root). In the past I’ve done this by using su but it’s not really a good idea for security reasons. Using … Continue reading →

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Google Releases Google Desktop for Linux

Posted on 28/6/2007 by ShadyCraig

Yesterday Google released it’s popular Windows tool Google Desktop for Linux, see their blog about it here. I was looking for exactly this type of program, what a coincidence that Google should create one just in time! There is already … Continue reading →

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Course results: 1st assignment 82%

Posted on 4/6/2007 by ShadyCraig

Well the results are back and I scored 82%, it seems quite high but the results page tells me that about 40% of students scored over 85%, so I could have done better. I got 4 questions wrong, one was … Continue reading →

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Windows problem – more news

Posted on 25/4/2007 by ShadyCraig

After more investigation last night it seems the root of the problem my be a hardware issue rather than anything to do with Windows, I also had some issues with Linux. I left the box powered off at the mains … Continue reading →

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Windows 2000 gone wrong

Posted on 24/4/2007 by ShadyCraig

Well it’s unbelievable: I only just got Linux working and Windows stops! It’s almost like it’s gone on strike or something… I left a dvd encoding over-night (it takes a while…) and the pc wasn’t responding in the morning. A … Continue reading →

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