CD Review: Child friendly Greased Lightning – Kidz Grease
I’ve been looking for a while for a child friendly version of Greased Lightning. I’ve certainly heard the original version
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WatkissOnline – Stewart's Blog
Various ramblings from an IT professional
Linux
Linux – using a network time server (ntpd)
The network time protocol is a means to synchronise time clocks of devices over the Internet. As well as being a convenient way to make sure your PC shows the correct time it is often used to ensure that the time of servers and routers are in synchronization. This is particularly important for database transaction logging, stock related transactions, security logging and analysis, network monitoring and other time critical applications.
Read MoreVirus vs. Hoax (Fancheck on Facebook)
Every now and again there is some new post via Facebook / Twitter / Email about the latest deadly virus
Read MoreSimple Intrusion Detecion Rules for Apache (Apache mod_rewrite & PHP based Intrusion Detection System IDS)
This is a document I created a while ago. I’m redesigning the Watkissonline site that this was previously stored on,
Read MoreReview of O2 Mobile Broadband USB dongle
I have bought a pay-as-you-go O2 Mobile Broadband USB Dongle to provide broadband connectivity whilst away from home. The first
Read MoreBook review: HTML, XHTML & CSS Sixth Edition, by Elzabeth Castro
HTML, XHTML and CSS are the technologies behind the web. You can create websites without knowing anything about these, but
Read MoreUsing O2 Mobile Broadband under Ubuntu Linux – Huawei E160
These instructions work for getting a O2 Pay-as-you-go Mobile Broadband USB stick to work under Ubuntu Linux. I also tested
Read MoreWordPress automatic upgrade – a status bar is worth several minutes
I’ve recently upgraded my blog engine, WordPress. The developers thoughtfully included an automatic upgrade button which I’ve already praised before
Read MoreIncluding OpenOffice.org word processor (writer) documents within a website – Linux file permissions reference document
I’ve added a new tutorial to the Penguin Tutor Linux Tutorial pages. The latest tutorial is on file permissions within
Read MoreBlog comments – spam vs. other comments
I do get a number of comments on my personal blog, but no where near as many as I get
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