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News Item New Linux Forum!
We're gradually moving away from Plone and towards PHP, this is the first visible step ...
News Item Sheevaplug UK Distribution
The latest version of the Sheevaplug Development Kit, from Globalscale Technologies is now available to purchase in the UK. This exciting piece of hardware is pre installed with Ubuntu 9.04, and has a power usage of just 5W.
News Item Who's interested in Linux?
I've seen a little debate over operating systems and browsers over the last few days, here's our take on the current situation
News Item Firefox 3.6 Beta
The next generation of Firefox is now available for testing for those not for the feint of heart
News Item Ubuntu 9.10
Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop Edition puts the user at the heart of its new design
How-to Recommended 3G/Netbook Solution
There are many options out there, for what it's worth, here's "our" choice ...
How-to Yoggie Open Firewall SOHO
A brief review of Yoggie's new (Open Source) mini-linux box / firewall product
News Item Easily Accessible Backups
Ikoula, R1Soft Partner to Provide Reliable, Easily Accessible Backups
News Item Yoggie Opens up its Miniature Firewall
Yoggie releases cutting-edge source code and its Linux-based hardware platform to the developer community
News Item New Free System Admin Tool- Linux Hot Copy
R1Soft®, developer of Continuous Data Protection®, today announced the upcoming release of a free beta version of Hot Copy for Linux, a new command line utility that takes instant, readable and writable snapshots of disks or volumes on any Linux server, providing an unprecedented level of flexibility for IT administrators.
News Item Competition from Solaris?
Sun has released a new version of OpenSolaris, is it any good.. ??
How-to Load Balancing Apache and Plone
There are many solutions to this issue, this might be one of the neater ones ...
How-to Gambas RAD
Rapid Application Development for Linux
How-to Warzone 2100
Warzone 2100 is a real-time strategy and real-time tactics hybrid computer game, developed by Pumpkin Studios and published by Eidos Interactive.
How-to An integrated Email soltion for Linux
There is a tendency to think of Outlook / Exchange as "the" email solution ... : wrong!
News Item Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop
Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop Makes Yahoo! Mail, Gmail and AOL Mail Available Offline
News Item Ubuntu for Notebooks!
Canonical Showcases Ubuntu Netbook Remix at Computex
How-to Image backups with netcat
Transferring large blocks of information across the network between devices
News Item Browser war hots up
For many years Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) has been the dominant Internet Browser, simply because it comes pre-installed on the Operating System supplied with most home computers. (Windows) It does look however like things are starting to change a little ...
How-to Windows CDROM's in Xen VM's
Some brief detail on how to connect up and switch CDROM's within Windows instances when running inside Xen
Data recovery laptop
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Managed Service Provider
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IT Services
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IT Support Bristol
IT Services and IT Support provider based in Bristol. Computer maintenance with server support as standard.
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Introduction to Linux
Comprehensive 5 day introductory course in London, 8-12 March/10-14 May. Covers installation, command-line, Gnome, power tools, Shell scripting, Office Applications and more.
IT Support
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IT Support - Netzen
IT Support & IT Outsourcing, Netzen is an IT Support company with offices in London, Bristol & Bath. We provide Linux Support, Apple Mac support.
Email Support
Email Hosting, Blackberry And Windows Mobile Configuration Available From Our IT Department. Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.
IT SERVICES
Award winning IT Services from London provider Wavex offering support, advice, and training
IT Support
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Data Recovery
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