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Intro Although I still consider myself a Linux n00b I love to tinker and get my geek fix whenever there’s a new distro to play with and having not had any other hardware to test on recently I will be giving a quick rundown on how Fedora 16 feels out of the box on the [...]

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So, firstly I realise I haven’t posted anything in a while and for that I’m truely sorry. To be honest I’ve been busy with selling my house, cycling from Paris to Chamonix and having an awesome snowboard season while avoiding work as much as I could. Well they say all good things come to an [...]

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Here’s a blog post about my NAS and what I’ve managed to do to/with it to get the most functionality/usage. RSync / Grsync wasn’t working to backup Ubuntu laptop. I could access with FTPES in Filezilla but it was slow and not as feature rich as I’d have liked. I could SSH in using terminal [...]

So I just installed Fennec (beta) for Android on my Samsung Galaxy S. For those who don’t know Fennec is the Mobile version of Firefox. The concept is based on “horses for courses”. You couldn’t run Firefox (the Linux version) on Android – it just doesn’t work that way. But there are probably many parts [...]

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Excited much?! I fracking love getting to the insides of fledgling businesses. Just had an informal chat with a prospective client and even if they don’t use me professionally a good ol chat is still the full-on funzors!

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As the head of this here thing I think it goes a long way when people do good deeds and as only I have control of the good deeds AFDIT does it falls on my shoulders to walk the walk. I’ve had a few ideas on the best way to do this – and it [...]

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Inspired by ever increasing publicity and debate I’ve decided to write a post on Linux Operating Systems and Free Open Source Software (FOSS). For the uninitiated, the Linux Kernel is a bit of code at the heart of any Linux system, be it Ubuntu (a popular desktop Operating System), Android (Google’s mobile phone Operating System) [...]

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Ok – this is the last post of the day (3 in such a short space of time is overkill after so little blogging for so long). After discovering the majestic awesomeness which is Mahalo I soon found myself participating in asking questions and getting in a few answers of my own. Immediately I was [...]

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In the theme of getting back in to the blogosphere here at AFDIT I have to start by introducing you to one of our latest and greatest client – Caz Haigh. Caz is an environmental Illustrator based in Sheffield. She excells in her field being head-hunted by all and sundry for her excellent skills in [...]