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NGRhodes NickR NickR's website 2009-01-08T17:05:06Z YACS Ubuntu 8.10 - Intrepid Ibex Released http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-169-ubuntu-8.10-intrepid-ibex-released nickr

From a users viewpoint, this version offers various new improvements including:

Support for 3G wireless devices and improved Wi-Fi support. Nautilus, desktop file manager now has tab support. Encrypted private directories. guest user mode.

On a more technical side, there is a newer Kernel - version 2.6.27, Gnome 2.24, Xorg 7.4, Updated Samba for Windows networking, Xen virtual machine.

I will be downloading shortly and testing it from the LiveCD, I hope to see improvements with Xorg's auto-configuration ... more

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Darth Scarlett ]]>

2008-10-22T19:12:53Z 2008-10-22T19:12:53Z Blog nickr NickR text/html en Copyright 2008 NickR Getting power management to work in Ubuntu http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-167-getting-power-management-to-work-in-ubuntu nickr

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2008-10-20T19:04:53Z 2008-10-20T19:04:53Z Blog nickr NickR text/html en Copyright 2008 NickR My ongoing Saga of moving to Linux http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-166-my-ongoing-saga-of-moving-to-linux n1ckr

I am still considering using Debian Testing, but am waiting to for Lenny (the current testing) to be released to see how long it takes for the new testing to stabilise.

So this ... more

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I've been running this for a few days and so far seems 100% stable, well worth testing, especially with the generous 60 day trial.

The main new feature is the command line tool which can be scheduled using the built in windows scheduler.

This is great, because it gives you the option of both the proactive and the scheduled defrag, which is a unique feature.

The proactive mode is great at defragging actual files, but I found it does not do space consolidate very well, by creating a regular schedules you can over come ... more

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2008-07-25T8:36:24Z 2008-07-25T8:36:24Z Blog N1ckR NickR text/html en Copyright 2008 NickR XP Pro. The end is nigh (30th June) and support http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-164-xp-pro.-the-end-is-nigh-30th-june-and-support N1ckR

Mainstream support ends 4/14/2009. That's only 10 months full support left ! Extended support ends 4/8/2014. Which is security fixes only, no new versions of browsers, media players or support for newer products (eg though, doubtful, next version of office might not support XP due to using a Vista only feature that will not get backported to XP).

Even with XP SP3 only recently been ... more

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2008-06-23T11:48:16Z 2008-06-23T11:48:16Z Blog N1ckR NickR text/html en Copyright 2008 NickR Why Windows 7 will be a massive success http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-159-why-windows-7-will-be-a-massive-success N1ckR

Windows XP has been a very popular OS, it managed to successfully build on the rock solid Windows 2000 and replace the lack-lustre Windows ME in one fell swoop. XP SP2 offered a significant improvements to further improve the reputation and popularity of Windows XP. Read Features_new_to_Windows_XP - Wikipedia, to find out more about about what was new in XP ... more

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I have been working on an updated version of my gallery code for YACS, I had hoped to get it complete in time for integration for the next big release - YACS 8.6 Macnana, but progress was slow and I missed the deadline. For now I will be concentrating on supporting the website, I shall be moderating the next English chat session on the 19th June and spend some time with documentation. Next week I shall be spending some time testing and helping to bug fix ... more

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Me and Scarlett ]]>

The new features of eMule 0.49a include Kad improvements ( obfuscation, better NAT, flood protection), changes to the messaging system (Captchas), GUI improvements (ability to save searches, search filtering of shared files) and the usual bug fixes and tweaks.

You can download Emule from the official Emule site. Download Emule 0.49a ]]>