With the recent news of Microsoft purchasing Parlano, I had to comment on what IM, especially Jabber, can do in the corporate sector. For starters, according to TechDirt, 85% of businesses are using instant messaging in their environment. To me, this isn’t too terribly surprising. And Microsoft is making a good move, [...]
An old laptop friend
Of such a companionship.
Goodbye Hercules
With my post about my home network, and the Greek play that I conduct with the computers, a lot of comments came in about what others use to name the host devices on their network. I’d like to share those, as not everyone reads blog comments. Here they are:
D&D 3.5 classes
Dragons
Astronomy phenomena
Important computer [...]
Yesterday, my new laptop came via UPS. I decided on the Lenovo Thinkpad T61, which it seems to me, has turned out to be a fairly popular laptop. I’m glad I made the purchase. Hopefully, we’ll see a great deal of hardware drivers to the kernel and elsewhere getting this machine to [...]
Who else does this? In my network, I have come up with a little scenario, where I get to play the Greek god Zeus. In my fantasy network world, I have named the router in my network after my brother Hades. As such, any computer that resides behind that router, I have [...]
I just updated my Ultimate Firefox Extension List For Junkies page. I added a new category of “Past Extensions” and updated the list of my “Current Extensions”. Of course, if there are any comments on list, I am curious as to what they are.
Are you doing the following?
Hosting a site
Syndicating feed content on your site using RSS
Not providing links or trackbacks to the originating content on your site
Posting advertisements on your site
Then you are violating my license, and probably many others, as outlined: You know who you are, and so do I. I would recommend taking [...]
Being an Ubuntu/Debian user (yes, I use and advocate both), I have fallen in love with the Advanced Packaging Tool, also known as apt. Before Ubuntu, I played in the world of RPM hell, with distros such as Red Hat itself, Mandrake (as it was called back then), and even SuSE. I would [...]
It’s been ruled. SCO does NOT own the the UnixWare and UNIX copyrights, but rather, Novell. From Groklaw:
That’s Aaaaall, Folks! The court also ruled that “SCO is obligated to recognize Novell’s waiver of SCO’s claims against IBM and Sequent”. That’s the ball game. There are a couple of loose ends, but the big [...]
I took my Perl script that I wrote some time ago, and rewrote it in Python. The exercise of the initial Perl script, was to get a better handle on the language using recursion, and to inventory my Ogg Vorbis collection of music. The same reasons were used for this Python version. [...]
It’s always bothered me, how confusing the many Free and Open Source Licenses are. There are many to choose from. As a developer, which one do you pick? How do you choose what software to run? What applications or services will you deploy pending licensing? These are big questions, and [...]
The #1 aspect that I just love about Ubuntu is the community. Making friends, acquaintances and just general social networking. Having places to turn when you need help, and being there for someone to turn to when they need help, not to mention general social atmospheres and hanging out. I understand that [...]
I have my laptop sitting at my desk at home. I need a file, so I launch SSH, only to find out that I can’t connect. Then I remember that the last time I booted, I received a DHCP address from my router. I have no idea what the address is that [...]
Sometimes, when evaluating a Free and Open Source project, we get all caught up in the technical details, and forget about what really drives consumers to any product- support. Nothing is more important to a user, than being able to turn to someone if they have questions, and get the support they need. [...]
