She sells sea shells
Unity isn’t the only desktop environment that Ubuntu has. There are many and as they said, Unity is a shell for Gnome but it is not Gnome-Shell. I have been using Unity for a few years now and figured...
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Shopping lens for Gnome Shell
The shopping lens in Unity has been one of the most talked about features, not always in a good way. Personally I quite like it, I have purchased several items through it and it seems to be a faster...
View ArticleUbuntu Smart Scopes
A new feature of Ubuntu was discussed today (which is like an announcement but without overhyping it), it is called Smart Scopes and is documented here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SmartScopes1304Spec go...
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Announcing ExceptionalEmails.com
If you are a sysadmin or developer or similar you probably get a bunch of emails from systems telling you they are doing just fine. You probably have mail rules to shove these off into some folder you...
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Crowdfunding and VAT
The trendy way to get your investment capital these days is to put together a slick video and shove your concept on Indiegogo or Kickstarter. You offer some gifts/rewards for different pledge levels...
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Building Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi
As a result of the prior musings about crowdfunding and the rather shaky VAT status of the whole sector I have been thinking quite a bit about crowdfunding and where it might be useful and how we could...
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Cluster update
I am delighted to say that the Raspberry Pi cluster project is now fully funded to the first target of £2,500, this means that the Indiegogo fees will be 4% of the total rather than the 9% which...
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We are supporting Code Club, and so should you!
Much has been made of the recent announcement of the Year of Code and the underwhelming interview on Newsnight of Lottie Dexter which contained some selected footage from what appears to be a class on...
View ArticleUbuntu and Privacy and how it really works now.
There have been quite a few entertaining discussions on the interwebs about Ubuntu and concerns around privacy. This topic comes and goes on a regular basis, today it has come up because Mozilla are...
View ArticleOpenERP and Heartbleed
No doubt by now you will have seen loads of stuff in the media about the Heartbleed bug. This is a pretty bad bug, there have been other huge bugs in the past too, but this one has a very media...
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