http://www.bengamblin.com Blog of Ben Gamblin http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/512/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2010-08-07/server-failure-and-repair/ I went on holiday for a few days last week and as is really quite typical, it was during this holiday that my server decided to fail. What made this particularly annoying was I had intended to use my server as remote storage for my photographs. Consider... Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:04:31 +0100 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/511/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2010-07-30/samsung-n210/ Last Wednesday I added to my collection of computers by purchasing a Samsung N210 netbook - a small, low-power, long-life laptop computer. My primary reason for purchasing such a machine was for a forthcoming holiday, allowing me to backup photographs, v... Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:36:59 +0100 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/453/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2008-08-18/simplicity-is-ubuntu/ As is pretty well established, I've been a Linux user for a while now and I've come to expect certain things of which one is whilst most things work, somethings can be a right pain in the derriere. Wireless networking has often been cited as a prime exam... Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:42:47 +0100 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/450/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2008-06-29/creating-dvd-video-in-ubuntu-linux/ The Linux command line makes the task of making a DVD-Video compliant disc fairly straight forward when one knows how, but finding straight forward instructions on the internet isn't always so simple. So after searching through various sites I've come up... Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:12:43 +0100 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/449/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2008-06-29/backups-save-the-day/ If anyone reading this doesn't regularly backup their important data, then you may wish to start doing so. It is often said there are two types of people - those who backup, and those who wish they had. The reason I have put out that little warning is t... Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:45:53 +0100 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/448/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2008-06-28/shake-up-of-internet-domain-names/ The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has agreed to allow a vast increase in the number of Top Level Domain (TLD) names that could be used alongside the current common names such as .com, .org, .net etc. The idea is that anyone ... Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:46:26 +0100 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/444/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2008-06-05/the-joy-of-wireless/ Just under two weeks ago, Kate and I bought a Nintendo Wii. In order to use it too it's fullest, I also re-instated WiFi on my home network. When we moved home back in August, for some unknown reason my Wireless Access Point decided to stop working. It... Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:21:26 +0100 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/433/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2008-03-31/gadget-show-lightweight-laptop-review/ The Gadget Show returned to British television screens today, for it's 6th series; promising an hour of 'soft' tech reviews and gadget fun. Why soft reviews? Well there's hardly a lot of in depth discussion about the pro's and con's of a particular prod... Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:24:34 +0100 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/415/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2007-09-14/new-pc-or-not/ I've been pondering about building another new PC over the last couple of days, but can't decide whether it's really worth it or not. I've currently got two machines running - a server machine (running as a web, email and file server) and a general use m... Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:44:17 +0100 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/398/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2007-04-25/dvorak/ No it's not some sort of medicinal drug. It's much more geeky than that. It's an alternative keyboard layout that is supposed to be much more efficient than QWERTY. I was inspired to try the new layout after reading a thread about it in the Ubuntu Comm... Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:02:46 +0100