Ed Hewitt

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Sorry to All!

Long time to since my last post.
Sorry for no posts, I had a exam revision a few weeks ago. When I was about to post a new article, the server went down. When it came back online, I was on holiday. But I am back now, so the posts will be coming “thick & fast”

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Ubuntu 8.04 Review

Sorry for the lateness of “Linux Wednesday”, been busy with school work and the release of Gfire 0.7.0 (its now out, gfire.edhewitt.co.uk). This week, I am going to do my review on the latest version of Ubuntu, 8.04 Hardy Heron. This release is meant to be the most substantial release of Ubuntu ever, plus it [...]

Windows Vista SP1 Music Video

This video appeared on YouTube about a week ago from a Microsoft employee. It is music video from the Microsoft Sales Team, about Windows Vista SP1.
Enjoy!

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Gfire!

A few weeks ago I took over an open source project with another guy called Laurent. Hes Belgium and we got on well from the start (always a good when working on a project together). The project is called Gfire. It is a plugin for the Pidgin IM client which allows you to connect to [...]

Top 4 Reasons to stay away from Linux

Its Wednesday, it is another post about Linux. Last week, I posted about my top 5 reasons to switch to Linux. This week, I’m making sure I have a balanced argument why Linux is great, by giving you my reasons why not to use Linux. However, I have only come up with 4 reasons, if [...]

Top 5 Reasons to Switch to Linux

Its Wednesday, so its time for me to do my post about me & linux. This post is a little later than usual, just been relaxing after a hard term, finally its the Easter holidays!
Today I’m going to do my top 5 reasons to switch to Linux, which none of them are about Linux being [...]

Ubuntu Advert

This is a video on youtube which I want to share with you all. Basically, its a Ubuntu advert which has been made by a user of Ubuntu. I just like it so much, because it shows everyone what is so great about Ubuntu. It makes me feel so glad I use Ubuntu, the same [...]

Blu-ray is so old, its all about downloads!

For a few weeks now, Microsoft have been talking about their take on the disc format war. Before they lost the war, I believe HD-DVD was going to win, primarily down to them being able to block the use of Blu-Ray of 90% of PCs. However, as we all know, Blu-Ray won.
For the past few [...]

Ubuntu email address idea

Just idea I have primarily aimed at Ubuntu, but it could be done on other distros. I believe it is about time that Ubuntu had a email address which users of the operating system could use. My idea is to have “@ubuntu.com” email address which all users of Ubuntu could sign up to and use.
Also, [...]

My Switch from Windows to Linux

Today’s post I’m going to tell you about my transfer from Windows to Linux. If you have read my “About me” page, you may have seen how old my PC is. I bought it after my GCSEs in June 2007 for £10! It came with CRT, keyboard and mouse. Ity was running Windows 98. It [...]

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