Alastair Cousins - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Alastair Cousins

Article | 5/06/2005 Knoppix in your pocket

This month, Alastair Cousins installs Knoppix onto a USB Key drive, making it even more portable.

Article | 9/05/2005 Coming out of your shell

Much more powerful than a Windows batch file, shell scripts can be used to run multiple tasks. Here's a brief introduction.

Article | 11/03/2005 Linux: Everything but the kitchen sink

Taking Linux and installing it on an alternative hardware platform may not be easy, but you can learn a lot from the experience.

Article | 4/03/2005 Linux: Getting your digital pix using Linux

It may lack an all-in-one solution like Apple's iPhoto, but there are tools that make using a digital camera with Linux easy.

Article | 11/02/2005 System Update with YUM

Keeping your Linux system up to date with the latest security fixes and software updates can be a real pain. But it doesn't have to be.

Article | 21/01/2005 Connecting to the Exchange

Microsoft Exchange is a standard groupware platform in many corporate environments, but it needn't be limited to just Windows.

Article | 24/12/2004 Linux: Hot and steamy

Not all digital TV cards are supported by Linux, but the Hauppauge NOVA-T is. What's more, it's the only one to allow digital TV streaming across a n...

Article | 15/10/2004 Crossing over to Linux

Changing your operating system from Windows to Linux can be a traumatic process. Not only is Linux a completely new system to learn, but many mainstre...

Article | 24/09/2004 Beginner-friendly Linux OS: Desktop/LX

Lycoris Desktop/LX is a distribution of Linux aimed firmly at desktop users, especially those migrating from Windows to Linux for the first time. The ...

Article | 10/09/2004 Setting up an NFS share

NFS (Network File System) is a protocol used by UNIX/Linux computers to share disks across a network. Similar to the Common Internet File Services (CI...

Article | 7/07/2004 Taking up the Slack

ZipSlack is a tiny Linux distribution designed to fit on a single 100MB Zip disk and is based on one of the oldest Linux distributions, Slackware Linu...

Article | 18/06/2004 Users & Groups - NIS

If you use several computers connected on a network, it can become a hassle to keep track of the usernames and passwords you use to access each machin...

Article | 25/05/2004 Users and groups

Linux is designed as a multi-user operating system. Multi-user support allows each user of the computer to have their own desktop configuration and se...

Article | 8/04/2004 Create a movie DVD

This time we will show you how to create a movie DVD (from your collection of home videos, for example) that is playable on most set-top DVD players, ...

Article | 5/03/2004 Using a DVD writer

Before you can start using your DVD writer with a Linux operating system, there are a couple of installation steps to be performed. If you are using a...