Miscellaneous contents page
- Bob's recommended.
- A list of vendors and services that Bob thinks are worth recommending to others.
- Not recommended.
- Companies and products that you would be better off avoiding.
- Using the Dvorak keyboard layout in FreeBSD.
- A guide to changing keyboard layout to anything other that the standard keyboard layout (usually US QWERTY) in FreeBSD, even in single user mode.
- Website fouls.
- How not to build website pages.
- Why you should use open source, free software.
- Reasons to abandon commercial software.
- Comparing lossless and lossy audio formats.
- Looking at audio formats other than MP3, and why you should be using a lossless audio format to archive your music collection.
- How to ace that job interview.
- Tips for making the perfect impression on job interviewers.
- Pedantry.
- Writing mistakes that people make every day.
- Sutton, London.
- A brief history of the town.
- Audio formats comparison 2006.
- A big look at six lossless formats and five lossy formats for encoding music to.
- Third-party cookies.
- Why you may want to block third-party cookies, and how to tell your web browser to block them.
- Replay Gain.
- How to play your digital music without volume fluctuations.
- Which Zen ADSL package suits you?
- Comparing the cost of broadband packages as monthly usage increases.
- Games that could make great movies: Half-Life.
- My pitch to any movie moguls out there: Half-Life could make a great movie.
- File backup checklist.
- Files you ought to consider when creating a backup of your system.
- Flexible working.
- The advantages and disadvantages to becoming a flexible worker.
- Backup with encryption.
- How to create a Windows batch file that saves your files into an encrypted backup space.
- Replay Gain in Linux.
- A counterpart to the earlier article, this time with Replay Gain tips for Linux users.
- A list of the fifty states of the USA.
- Handy if you draw a blank while playing the fifty states game.
- A list of the thirty-two London boroughs.
- Handy for working out which London boroughs you've forgotten.
- Running Spotify in Linux using Wine under a separate user account.
- Run Wine under a user account that is denied access to your personal files and folders.
- Web Design Crimes.
- A 2010 addendum to the 2004 list of website design fouls.
- A brief guide to digital certificates.
- Why more people and businesses should be using digital certificates for email and document signing.
- An rsync backup script for Linux.
- Creating a script which mounts a backup volume and runs rsync to backup new and changed files.
- A script for rsync backup to an encrypted volume.
- A follow-up article which describes how to add LUKS encryption to your rsync backup device.