The latest beta version for Mozilla Firefox web browser has been released. This is version 2, beta 1. As this is beta it should not be used on mission critical systems, but it appears to be stable. It’s perhaps a little slower than the last version, but that is expected as there may still be […]

As I’ve already mentioned I’m creating a Autocue Program for Linux using Perl/Tk. I’ve made a start on this, and the initial development (with very limited functionality) was well received at the last rehearsal. It has much more functionality than the old Macromedia Flash based autocue program that I created for the last show, and […]

Today I have just taken the next in the LPIC certification exams. I have already taken: LPIC 101 exam LPIC 102 exam which means I am currently certified as a: Junior Level Linux Administrator. Today I took the first exam towards becoming an Intermediate Level Linux Administrator (currently the highest level available from the LPI […]

I have made my first major edit of the Wikipedia community created encycleopedia. The site is a wiki, which means that anyone can contribute to it.

I had booked today off from work and we took our baby daughter (Amelia) for a day at the seaside. She is now 11 months old, and although we have taken her to the seaside before this is the first time she’s been able to play in the sand and paddle on the beach. As […]

Looking through my web access logs for my Penguin Tutor (Linux Tutorials / Certification information) web site, I saw a particularly large amount of traffic on Friday. Looking through the logs I see that this is because someone has downloaded my entire web site using the WebReaper (web crawler / web spider) program. The program […]

I’ve just installed Fedora on my home desktop machine. The Fedora version I used is called Fedora Core 5 (often referred to as FC5), and is the community distribution from RedHat. I do try different distributions, and try and have at least two different distributions on my machines, using a Debian based distribution on one […]