How cool is Skype? Well, considering that it’s one of those “ButOfCourse(tm)! Why didn’t I think of that?!” type things, it must mean it’s very cool. It’s something many software developers have thought about, but few have done anything about. Having played with it for …
Sun today announced something referred to as OpenSolaris.. they also announced that they’re releasing a “free-to-use” license for some 1600 patents they claim to own. I’m not quite sure what all this means in regards to “real life”, but I’m sure millions of people and …
I’ve been looking for years, and I’m still looking.. What am I looking for? A gallery application that will allow me to source photos from a “collection” and then write a story using these photos. I’ve looked at numerous so-called gallery applications, and they all …
After having sucessfully upgraded from SuSE 9.1 to 9.2, I noticed all my terminal shortcuts stopped working. Lo and behold, my Eterm binaries had been removed (gasp!). So I’m currently stuck with sucky gnome-terminal. Why, oh why did my Eterm go away.. 🙁
I just finished upgrading some ten installations of McAfee’s VirusScan Professional at a customer site. Most of them were upgraded from 7.x to 8.x, for some it was enough to renew the virus update subscription. I’ve been doing IT for the better part of my …
Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it 😉 (Linus Torvalds)
Wow! Two new toys in the world of Linux! SuSE Linux 9.2 looks to be a lot of fun, and comes with a number of nice improvements over previous versions. Running the upgrade procedure on a SuSE Linux 9.1 installation worked like a charm (albeit …
The Linux Documentation Project is working on developing free, high quality documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system. The overall goal of the LDP is to collaborate in all of the issues of Linux documentation. This includes the creation of “HOWTOs” and “Guides”. We hope to …
CUPERTINO, Calif. — MySQL AB, developer of the world’s most popular open source database, today announced the general availability of MySQL® 4.1. Certified by the company as production-ready for large-scale enterprise deployment, this significant upgrade to the MySQL database server features advanced querying capabilities through …