Monthly Archives: July 2009

Using Spotify On Linux

Posted on July 17, 2009 by Dan

Spotify is a free and legal service which gives you access to millions of songs. They achieve this by licensing the tracks from record companies in a similar way to radio stations, and they pay for it with advertising. …

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Weekly Rewind #22

Posted on July 13, 2009 by Dan

Howdy, welcome to another Weekly Rewind. Number 22 we’re up to now and I can’t think of any good jokes for that number, sorry. Apart from maybe some Bingo lingo “two little ducks… twenty two” and all that. Anyway, …

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Are The Mono Wars Over?

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Dan

There’s been a lot of controversy and argument over the use of Mono in the Linux world rightly or wrongly, and this long running issue recently reared it’s head again when Richard Stallman (founder of the FSF) chipped in. …

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Weekly Rewind #21

Posted on July 5, 2009 by Dan

Hi ho, it’s another Weekly Rewind and this time we’re up to the symbolic number 21. Key of the door and all that. The legal drinking age in the US of course, something I’ve never really understood. I’m not …

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Distro Review: Fedora 11

Posted on July 4, 2009 by Dan

Today I thought I’d report back in detail on my experiences with Fedora 11, the community distribution release from perennial Linux giants Red Hat. It’s a distribution with a reputation for being close to the cutting edge, some would …

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