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Well of course after playing with Xubuntu at home it didn’t take much to have it installed on my work computer, a very old Wolfdale with a Celeron CPU and 4 GB of RAM. A very slow computer for its age, and also relatively old. Not sure exactly but I would guess around 6 years.…

Today I decided I needed something other than Mint on one of my systems. I chose to do this because Mint has had security issues that led to their website being hacked and giving out malware, and their forum database passwords stolen. Which brings down the whole reputation of their project, unfortunately. There were only…

After much thought I decided the “second” computer (which is actually the newest and therefore fastest) will be used for the maps that I draw and the “first” computer (older) is the one I use for my study and some work as well. So the second computer now has the quad head video card and…

One of the great things about the major desktop OSs (Windows, OSX and Linux) is that they all have software based hypervisors available to let you run other operating systems as virtual instances in a window on your desktop. When I was getting into PC computing in a big way, the only option we had…

Today there is a report in the paper that the NZ Hunting and Fishing shop’s website was hacked and customers’ credit card details were stolen. Customers had noticed unusual activity on their credit cards. I have personally used a number of e-commerce sites operated by bonafide New Zealand businesses. In the rush for these businesses…