An I.T. Problem Shared . . .

A blog of problems . . . and solutions

Entries for January, 2010

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx (Alpha 2) Installation

We thought we’d grab a copy of Ubuntu 10.04 – even though it’s still in Alpha and shouldn’t be installed on a production machine we’ve found it installed pretty much perfectly on any hardware we used. The Alpha 2 ISO image is available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/lucid/alpha-2/ and here’s a quick screencast showing the installing. The process [...]

Anti-malware/Anti-virus Boot CDs

PCs infected with viruses/spyware/malware are getting harder and harder to repair. Malware is getting smarter each day and hiding, embedding and defending its position harder than ever. Once your PC is infected it’s practically impossible to repair or remove the infection from within the infected operating system. An infected PC we recently looked at had [...]