Richard M. Stallman spoke last night for almost 3 hours on the goals and philosophy of the Free Software Movement and the history of the GNU operating system. It has been 6 years since he last spoke in Belfast. He signed my copy of "Free as in Freedom"... » More
I noticed some unbranded Android phones on eBay and I have bought two so far. The first one was a 4.3" Android 4.0 with the MTK6575 processor, and the second was a 4.6" Android 4.0 with the dual core MTK6577 processor. I tested the devices using Antutu... » More
I'm using CentOS 6.2 and needed to install the following dependencies before Skipfish would 'make': yum install pcre-devel openssl-devel libidn-devel libidn2-devel Some of the errors listed before this included the following: In file included from... » More
I purchased an Android Tablet on eBay named the 'Superpad 8' or 'Flytouch 8' so I thought I would post a few thoughts about it for others. A quick search for 'Superpad 8' on eBay or Amazon should get you started. Inevitably any device like this will be... » More
So my Raspberry Pi arrived a few days ago and I have now managed to get it out of the wrapper. After realising that I should have been using an SD card in the dedicated SD Card slot rather than trying to boot from one of the USB ports I was up and... » More
I was having difficulty combining the use of Twitter Bootstrap, its Dropdown menus, jQuery and the jQuery Validate plugin. I was playing around with the order of the .js files finding that I could sometimes get the menus to work but not the validation... » More
A friend contacted me with a problem booting into Windows. I asked him to boot into Ubuntu and this is what we found. Gparted reported the disk as 'unallocated' and 'Cannot have overlapping partitions' an 'fdisk -l' told me 'Partition table entries are... » More
I have output from a router (but I believe modem output may be similar) with mac addresses in the format: 0050.56AC.4022 Four digit blocks separated by dots but I needed it in the format of 2 digit blocks separated by colons. My router output was lines... » More
