June's been an unusual month - and without feeling the need to 'blog' to you fine people, I've decided to drop a little update in to let you know what's coming in early May.

Firstly, it's that time of year where we all pack up and head to some random festival. This year we're going to Belgium, and I'm planning on taking a camera for once in my life, meaning the Warped Views section will be updated with the lighter side of computing gone wrong ;)

We've also got the usual Wi...(Read More)

It's taken me years to decide between Gnome and KDE, and the truth is that I've actually bounced between the two quite evenly while still making up my mind. But I think I drew the line when installing OpenSuSE 11.1 which came with KDE4 - then the problems began :(

KDE does look prettier, and seems certainly more customizable (especially now since GDM has undergone a rewrite and lost theme support!), but small things kept getting in the way, the panel config is uncomprehendable, crea...(Read More)

It's always sad when an old friend on the Internet dies, and today I learned of another good old Internet portal that powered the web for many years during the 1990's – GeoCities is going offline for good.

Brought by Yahoo! in 1999 for a stupidly large sum, GeoCities allowed the web community to host free websites - something that sparked an era of cheap, badly coded MS FrontPage websites hosting screensavers, backgrounds and dodgy Windows 98 utilities to make your start menu ...(Read More)

I've managed to complete a very quick, brief guide to shared libraries on Linux (the guide was written using Ubuntu as a source). It's basic, but does tell you how to create a working C++ shared library for Linux. At present it doesn't focus on source code (I will create an example next), but focuses more on compiling and linking in order to get an application to work with a library - with or without installing it.

I mainly wrote it because the steps seemed overwhelming and hard to ...(Read More)