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ZPanelX ‘internal’ beta going well so far!

Well we released ZPanelX internal beta to the rest of the team for a two week ‘testathon’ prior to opening it up to the community members who donated to our vBulletin drive 🙂 Although so far we’ve seen 15 bugs logged, pretty much all of which I’ve already squashed, I’ll be looking at releasing a […]

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General Stuff Technology

Got myself an iPhone 4S – The MacBook Pro is next!

Just a ramble really… I’ve not posted much recently so…. This weekend I took out my first ever mobile phone contract, fancy mobile phones don’t really interest me all that much and up until now I’ve not cared for a ‘contract’ phone. – I’ve been happy with my hand-me-down phones that I’ve been given by […]

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How to install Gnome classic in Ubuntu 11.10

You may want to install and use Classic Gnome on your Ubuntu PC, unlike Ubuntu 11.04 the classic gnome desktop is no longer installed as an alternative to the new Unity desktop. I thought I’d quickly share how installed it on my Ubuntu 11.10 development machine, which now enables me to use either Unity or […]

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Coding General Stuff Technology

I’ve been a busy bee, ZPanelX development update!

Ok well I’ve not posted on here for a while, mainly due to the fact that life has been so hecktic and I’ve been getting myself far too involved in too many different things.. So thought I’d better update you all with some info etc. Well the last week I’ve managed to do a whole […]

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Google updates it’s web-mail (Gmail) GUI

It looks very nice too! Recently we have all seen Google change its web user interface from the old very basic buttons  and text  (which it carried for years) to a more fluid design which I think is great (although I will miss the simple controls that Google used to use :)) So for historical purposes […]

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Technology

Steve Jobs… A technology guru!

Today is a sad day for many people, it is today that the world lost a true technology guru and an icon. I have spent a short amount of time reading many of the nice words that many other big technology people have said about him over at wired.com. Up until about 4 months ago […]

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Installing a Git server on Ubuntu Server 11.04

Well I know there are a lot of tutorials on the internet regarding the installation of Git server on Ubuntu but I thought I’d try to ‘KISS’ (Keep it simple stupid!), most of the tutorials are full of non-nessacery information and quite often don’t go into detail (or at least explain in an easy to […]

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Apps & OS's Coding General Stuff Technology

Github, ReadyNAS Duo and ZPanel DNS module

Well I haven’t blog’d for a month so thought I’d better update you all with what’s been going on recently… Well I decided to give GitHub a try out (I’ve had an account registered on the site and I reserved the ZPanel project name) but haven’t yet given it much of a try-out but as […]

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Technology

I bit the bullet and bought an iMac!!

Well yesterday I made one of the biggest purchases I have to date (not far behind my house, car etc)!! I have many computers in my house and have owned many computers over time but nothing beats the awesomeness of Apple’s hardware design! – I forked out and bought an iMac (the most expensive computer […]

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How to enable root login over SSH on FreeBSD 8.2

Unlike many linux distributions FreeBSD by default disables ‘root’ login over SSH (at least it does with FreeBSD 8.2), If you do need to enable remote root logins over SSH this simple blog post will show you what you need to do; the more secure way of gaining remote admin access to your server would […]