I wrote a couple of days ago about replacing my MacBook Pro hard drive with SSD. At the same time I bought a little SSD to use as the system drive for my desktop. I fitted that this morning, installed a fresh copy of Fedora 18 and mounted the original 1TB hard drive as a data [...]
I’ve had my 13″ MacBook Pro since the mid 2009 refresh and it’s been really reliable. Apart from one brief visit to Apple to replace a noisy fan, I’ve had no worries. A few years ago I upgraded from 4G to 8G RAM, so I’m not stranger to taking the back off it. Even though [...]
Thanks to Norman Dunbar for pointing out that MobaXterm 6.3 has been released. You can find the download and changelog in the usual place. I’ll be interested to see how the performance improvements to SFTP work out. I’ve seen some issues with this during transfers of large files before. The built in NFS and VNC servers [...]
Followers of the blog know I’m a Linux fan, but over the weekend I needed to fix some stuff on a Windows server at work and I took my first tentative steps into the world of Windows PowerShell. It was very much a case of “scripting by Google”, but I managed to get the job [...]
With all the recent press about global brute force attacks on WordPress I decided to install the Better WP Security plugin last Sunday. It includes loads of security features, including the big ones mentioned in the recent attacks: Changing the name of the “admin” user. Changing the ID of your renamed admin user. Changing the [...]
In a previous post I said that UltraEdit moves through beta really quickly. Today I’m rocking UltraEdit v4.0 Release Candidate on Fedora 18… Cheers Tim…
Hot on the heels of the recent UltraEdit v19 release for Windows, comes the UltraEdit v4 Beta II release for Linux/Mac. I’ve just started using it and so far so good. They usually progress through the betas pretty quick. I didn’t have time to install the beta I before this one dropped. Cheers Tim…
Were you thinking, “I’ve got nothing better to do this weekend than to download the latest version of VirtualBox and update the guest additions on all my VMs”? Well your luck is in! Oracle have just released VirtualBox 4.2.10. The downloads and changelog are in the usual places. Happy upgrading! Cheers Tim…
The internet has been awash with people bemoaning the decision by Google to close Google Reader. Probably the next biggest talking point has been people asking what they can use to replace it when it’s gone. I’m planning on giving TheOldReader.com a test-drive, once I can get my feeds imported. The problem with free This highlights one [...]
For all those folks who are forced to use Windows, you might be interested to know UltraEdit v19 has just been released. You can check out the new features here. The latest version for Mac/Linux is still 3.3, so maybe we are due a new version there too? Cheers Tim…