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My comments on the current movement to keep your own chickens as reported by Valerie Elliott
7th December 2009
Growing your own vegetables is becoming increasingly prevalent in the United Kingdom. Whether it is in your own garden or allotment people are growing their own. This is seen as an effective cost cutting measure during a recession. There is also a certain feel good factor for the individual more aware of their own impact on the environment. However what has become increasingly vogue for amateur farmers is keeping your own chickens.
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Here you will find a chronological list of all the articles I have written on Micro Farming
7th December 2009
Currently green technology news is prevalent in the media and Internet. As I come across worthwhile news for how to improve your life style and become less demanding on the environment I will report my findings and opinions. I will be looking at some scale farming and simple things you maybe able to do in your own home. This may cover products and suggestion for your kitchen and garden.
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Article about the grassroots campaign make Rage Against the Machine this years Christmas Number 1 in the United Kingdom
6th December 2009
I really am not a fan of the X Factor and even less Simon Cowell. I feel the X Factor format forces an extremely narrow view on talent placing unfair expectations on naive individuals thrusted into the lime light to endure the wrath of the tabloid press. Ironically I enjoy watching Britain's Got Talent and seeing a wider range of acts and the praise given to the minority of acts with true talents. But if I am honest it is the same choreographed manufactured television designed to dumb down society so its easier to oppress. There is now an effort to stop yet another Simon Cowell act from becoming number one this Christmas and hence save society from itself.
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This article is about the Gnash project an alternative to Adobe Flash web browser extension
1st December 2009
Installing and running Adobe Flash plugins on Linux and Ubuntu has plagued me with repeated frustrations as I use AMD 64 bit chipsets in my desktop computer. The problem which faced me was that Adobe did not support a 64 bit version of the Flash extension for Firefox. There are alternatives to the Adobe version. But it is difficult to know the pedigree of the developer and quality of their work. Fortunately I have discovered Gnash. An open source Flash movie player.
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This articles covers how I believe the Google Chrome OS will become a platform for hosted content
27th November 2009
Now that the dust has settled after all the hubbub surrounding the Google Chrome OS event, 19th November. I would like to present my opinions on the product announcement. At the event Vice President of Product Marketing Sundar Pichai announced the release of Google Chrome OS for download to engage developers.
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My comments on the bravery shown by Google to not censor a photo of Michelle Obama
25th November 2009
Currently it seems there is always a Google story to report. Recently it has been about Chrome OS, Wave and Books. Today was different. Different by the virtue that Google was required to defend its position on the censoring of search results.
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This document contains the steps necessary to configure the Ubuntu to synchronise the system clock with network time servers
14th November 2009
NTP is a TCP/IP protocol for synchronising time over a network. Basically a client requests the current time from a server to set its own clock. Simply it is to synchronises the clock of your computer with an other system over a network or the Internet.
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The following article explains how to install the vsftp application to run a FTP server on your Ubuntu computer
14th November 2009
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a TCP/IP protocol for uploading and downloading files between computers across networks and the Internet. FTP creates a connection between two computers following the client and server relationship model. Authentication of users connecting to FTP servers can be managed in one of two ways; anonymous or authenticated users.
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On the 5th October Freesat announced the addition of the BBC iPlayer to the platform. This article reports my opinions and future desire for iPlayer.
5th November 2009
To my astonishment today (5th November 2009) I read on the BBC News website the iPlayer services for replaying programmes broadcasted during the previous severn days would be available on Freesat digital satellite platform. The greatest surprise was however still to come. As I continued to read the article I learned this is not a new effort. I read that it has been possible to view BBC iPlayer content on Virgin Media set top boxes since June 2008.
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This document contains the steps necessary to configure the Apache web server to recognise per-user web directories
2nd November 2009
Multiple user operating systems like Ubuntu Linux running Apache web server allow system each user to run a web site under their own home directory. The module which allows this reality is the UserDir Directive. Activating this module will configure the Apache web server to handle to requests for content using urls which follow the format of http://www.example.com/~user/index.htm. To configure the Apache with per-user web directories complete the following steps.
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