Oli Trenouth

iPhone 4.0: Why can't we all just get along?

There’s been a storm brewing between rivals Google, Adobe and Apple. Each day seems to bring news of some minor sparring between the software giants, but instead of looking on in mild amusement, I’ve started to realise how their actions are affecting the future of smartphone development. The

HowTo: Ubuntu as a Time Machine Volume

Have you ever wished you could use Apple’s Time Machine service over a network? Since I’ve got almost 2TB of storage on my Linux (Ubuntu 9.10) server, I certainly did – but unfortunately Apple only lets you use physically attached USB or Firewire drives, or their own network-attached

Ubuntu 9.10 | Remote Desktop Without A Monitor

Ubuntu 9.10 makes a great OS for a home server, but if you’re not comfortable using terminal commands to setup and administer your box you may quickly run into a problem with the Desktop Edition of Ubuntu… Just recently I’ve repurposed an ASUS EeeBox into a nice

Setting Sail Across the C

I’m a Microsoft developer. There, I said it. I’ve grown up in a world of BASIC, from the early days of QuickBASIC through to VB.NET today. It’s a fantastic, easy going world to live in – particularly since .NET – as everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) is laid

Ubuntu as a Home Server

For quite some time now I’ve toyed with the idea of setting up a home server. Actually, I’ve setup plenty of home servers over the years but since I moved house I just lost interest. I had a perfectly good NAS, so there seemed little point … In the

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