by Robert Ian Hawdon | May 21, 2017 | My Life, Technology |
About 5 years ago, I read an article on Canonical’s ambitious plans on achieving device convergence with a product called Ubuntu for Android. That is to use the same code across different types of devices and allowing different devices running the same software...
by Robert Ian Hawdon | Mar 25, 2017 | My Life |
A kind of a follow up to the McRib review I did a few years back. Whilst out in Australia, I just had to visit on old favourite, Hungry Jack’s, the Australian subsidiary of Burger King, as it’s the only place you can order “The Aussie”....
by Robert Ian Hawdon | Mar 20, 2017 | My Life |
Out visiting family in Australia again, as my website is no longer hosted from home, I’m not actually surprised that it’s still online this time. Of course, being a resident of the United Kingdom means that the process of getting yourself from one side of...
by Robert Ian Hawdon | Feb 23, 2017 | My Life, Technology |
The long awaited fifth part to the saga. In the last instalment, I had finally gotten online with a Linux system, and was able to perform everyday tasks on my desktop box such as word processing, browsing the web, instant messaging, and DVD playback. In this post,...
by Robert Ian Hawdon | Nov 21, 2016 | Robert Investigates |
Another fake and possibly dangerous mains lead goes under the knife.
by Robert Ian Hawdon | Oct 22, 2016 | In The News, Technology |
Why did the Internet appear to break on Friday? Today I explain what DNS is, and why it’s essential to your everyday Internet browsing habits.
by Robert Ian Hawdon | Jun 25, 2016 | My Life, Political, Robert Investigates, Technology |
Whilst everyone else in the UK is panicking over the results of the EU referendum, I decided, as usual to do something completely different. Here I’m going to review the Operating System designed for use by the citizens of the Democratic People’s Republic...
by Robert Ian Hawdon | Jun 5, 2016 | My Life, Technology |
At work, we use a chat system for internal communications called Slack. One of the many features of the platform is the ability to integrate other apps, or allow external applications post messages for you. One of the earliest integrations someone integrated was the...
by Robert Ian Hawdon | Mar 9, 2016 | Technology |
2016 is a pretty special year for me. It marks 10 years since switching my default operating system to Linux from Windows. (With a small exception in 2007 when I bought a Mac and used OS X for a while before installing OpenSUSE on that too) For me, Linux based systems...
by Robert Ian Hawdon | Feb 14, 2016 | My Life, Technology, Tutorials |
Quite a few years ago, 2008, a few of my mates and myself were avid Family Guy fans. Often watching new episodes as soon as they were out. One of the cutaway gags on an episode entitled “Long John Peter” caught my attention. By the end of that day, I had...