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Intro to Mediawiki

By on Tuesday, November 30th, 2010 | No Comments

If you ever wanted to create a fairly easy yet powerful database of articles then mediawiki is for you. What is it? If there was one word to describe it, then I would say Wikipedia. What does Wiki mean? The word ‘wiki’ is a Hawaiian word. Wiki-Wiki in Hawaiian means very quick or fast, and [...]

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Reset Opensuse root password

By on Wednesday, October 6th, 2010 | 4 Comments

Forgotten the root password to your linux system? Don’t want to reinstall and lose your files or are you just plain lazy? Here is an easy way to reset the root password if you ever find yourself in that situation. I must admit, I was surprised how easy it was. I had an old test [...]

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AVG Rescue CD

By on Monday, March 29th, 2010 | No Comments

A great addition for any IT pro’s toolkit which I read about the other day – AVG Rescue CD is bascially a portable version of AVG Anti-Virus running on a Linux live CD. You can use it as a bootable CD or even a bootable USB drive, and the best thing is that it’s free. [...]

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Build me a PC part 1

By on Friday, August 7th, 2009 | No Comments

One of my friends wanted me to build a PC from scratch, with the parts HE wanted (rather than a pre built one). So I thought ‘lets blog it from the very beginning to the end’. The challenge – a decent PC (not for gaming but one with a bit of grunt and the ability [...]

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Unix day 1234567890

By on Saturday, February 14th, 2009 | No Comments

At 3.31 PST on Friday 13th, or on Valentines day depending whre you live, Unix computer clocks reached the time of 1234567890–1.2 billion seconds elapsed from January 1, 1970, the official beginning of the Unix epoch. The clock is used not just by Unix, but also by Linux, Java, JavaScript, Mac OS X, and various [...]

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