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Ubuntu 6.10 – borked installer

Here’s a little tip for anyone considering installing the latest Ubuntu 6.10 “Edgy Eft” – DON’T.

Actually, that’s a bit drastic. You just might not be able to do it in the first place.

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Web Hosting Options – The Downside of Shared Hosting

Earlier this month, an article I wrote on Ghosting Windows XP for Free found its way to the front page of digg.com nearly a year after I wrote it. The ensuing spike in traffic caused my web host (1and1) to move my site temporarily to a new server. Naturally, I received an e-mail from [...]

Feeling the Digg Effect

To my great surprise yesterday I received an e-mail from my web host (1and1) stating that my account was seriously threatening the server resources. Curiously, I checked my web stats.

Imagine my surprise when I discovered that I had received over 20,000 hits by the middle of the afternoon, and that there were currently [...]