Oli's Blog

Father of three, seasoned web developer (Django, Vue, Astro, etc), Ubuntu Member, photographer and woodworker. This is my blog, covering a raft of topics, mostly technical.

UK Government to make Vista EVEN worse

Friday, 17 February 2006ukvistawindows

MS Retrofitting OEM Licences

Thursday, 16 February 2006eulamicrosoftwindows

MSN Live Messenger Memory Leak

Tuesday, 14 February 2006betamemory leakmessengerramtechnology

Just how much RAM does a messenging client need?

Why the RAID5, God?! WHY!?!

Friday, 20 January 2006eyebrowsfunnyhardwaresuffering

Bootable USB Flash Drive

Sunday, 23 October 2005hardwaretutorialsusb

Nate explores the unnecessarily complex world of creating a bootable USB drive and shows you how to make it a lot simpler than it may have seemed.

Passwd Files

Saturday, 30 July 2005securityunix

Raising the dead - Undeleting deleted files…

Friday, 10 December 2004otherundeletewindows

Pointers in C

Saturday, 9 October 2004cpointersprogrammingsecuritytutorial

C is a pretty easy language to understand but there is one topic that scares the daylights out of beginners: pointers.

My PSU Hell

Sunday, 3 October 2004eyebrowshardwaresuffering

Your hard drive is failing

Wednesday, 26 November 2003hardware