Planned maintenance

This is just a quick note to readers of this website to give you advanced warning of some planned server maintenance. Over the next few days I will be migrating all sites and services over to a new hosting facility. Unfortunately, the migration will necessitate short periods of downtime while I move things over and […]

Marcus Povey

This is just a quick note to readers of this website to give you advanced warning of some planned server maintenance. Over the next few days I will be migrating all sites and services over to a new hosting facility. Unfortunately, the migration will necessitate short periods of downtime while I move things over and […]

Problems with Ubuntu’s new shopping lens

Canonical has come in for a little bit of heat for the inclusion of the Unity Shopping Lens into the latest release of Ubuntu. This new tool, installed and switched on by default (although you can turn it off if you want), extends desktop searches online. The upshot being that when looking for a file […]

Marcus Povey

Canonical has come in for a little bit of heat for the inclusion of the Unity Shopping Lens into the latest release of Ubuntu. This new tool, installed and switched on by default (although you can turn it off if you want), extends desktop searches online. The upshot being that when looking for a file […]