A note for all users running WordPress 2.1.1 who have upgraded or installed it in the last week – you need to upgrade to 2.1.2 NOW. A cracker managed to gain access to the WordPress file repositories and swap out some of the files in the release… [ Read More ]

I’d like to apologise to anyone born on a leapyear! Sounds like an odd thing to do, but the reason is quite simple. While my contacts database flags up the correct forthcoming day that someones birthday will fall on, this happens a day late for contacts who were born… [ Read More ]

I never thought I’d actually see the day, but its happened. Flash actually works on my Linux desktop! For a long time the flash player 7 was unstable and problematic with a lareg number of interactive website elements to the extent I had to block all flash images and… [ Read More ]

I heard the other day that the next scheduled install fest (where school of computing students can bring their PCs along to the school of computing of an evening and have Linux installed on their systems and find out more about the operating system from those who use it… [ Read More ]

We’re still making progress! Today the RouterTech team announced the release of the next major version of its firmware, v2.2. There are many great changes and improvements in this version and yet the stability and reliability users have come to expect from our firmware will remain as solid as… [ Read More ]

My contacts database has been running for a month or so now and I wanted to post an update on how I think its going. I decided to add a small(ish) number of people to it and see what the uptake would be like and so whether to invest… [ Read More ]

Last night I polished off yet another piece of coursework. They have been arriving thick and fast lately and its nice to be able to start putting some of them to bed. So far this semester I’ve been very happy with how the courseworks have gone. The poster for… [ Read More ]

“You dirty slut!” came the shout from outside. It was so loud in fact that I thought it had come from my own garden so I popped open the skylight to have a look and see what was going on. I looked down and I saw a girl walking… [ Read More ]

For the sake of the sanity of the rest of those who study or work in the School of Computing please stop trolling on the newsgroups. Its annoying, wastes time and doesn’t help anyone, least of all yourself. That is all.

The first iteration of our group software development project is over which means we had to submit a project plan for the rest of it. Things look very promising; the timing works out almost perfectly as we have two weeks leway at the end in case there are any… [ Read More ]