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Folks, this particular blog of mine is going inactive, so all 500 or so of you should buzz on over to the new blog at susemonkeyboy.wordpress.com, it's got categories and such, much easier to use, but now I have to edit posts by hand, so goodbye sadly to Blogger...

How to Change the World: Book Review: The No Asshole Rule by Robert Sutton

Linux Usage on the Rise in Large Companies

Interesting look from Evans Data about Linux Usage on the Rise in Large Companies

Got Kids?

Kids got Internet?

Parents Connect & Share Advice Online

Computer Labs have a future in k-12 environments

Computer Labs have a future in k-12 environments

2,000,000 downloads in the first 24 hours, now you can learn how to Unpimp your browser if you're using Firefox 2.0

I love Ali G, and Borat's getting better, check out When CNN's Becky met Borat

DailyTech - City of Chicago Begins Migration to Linux

Skype Founders announce impending TV over Internet Release

Optimized Firefox 2.0 for G4, G5, and Intel Macs

Steve VN opines that the yesterday's announcement really amounts to Oracle's Red Hat rip-off, but here's what I think.

I think that Red Hat did a very stupid thing with thier JBoss acquie, deeply upsetting partnerships that amounted to tacit industry backing, and this is an outshoot of that upset. After all, the only company affected deeply by this is Red Hat. Case in point, yesterday after the announcement of Unbreakable Linux, we checked the various stock prices:

Oracle - Up 22c
Novell - Down 11c
Red Hat - Down $5+, or 26%

I was at a trade show and many people came over to tell me about this, even though I knew I wanted to see what they had to say, it was all about "Ooh, Red Hat really pissed off Oracle, they better hope that JBoss revenue is enough, since they are going to lose a large chunk, ie: all thier Oracle support revenue" or things that all contained those main ideas.

How did this affect my employer? Not much, if any, they are very careful to stand back and just focus on the huge adoption of SLE 10, a good view of this being my talking to about 3,000 people yesterday at a company trade show, all very interested in a) the free penguins b) the SLED 10 demo's and info c) the SLES 10 Xen virtualization piece and how to save $ with it. B and C ran very close seconds to A...

Novell announces PCs preloaded with SUSE Linux

Vim tips: Working with external commands

Make your computer a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with a normal cable connection.

For Jason: Triple Boot via BootCamp - OnMac.net Wiki

Welcome In Binary Floor/Door Mat

First benchmarks of the ext4 file system

I will answer your questions: 10 Pros & Cons of switching from Windows to Mac OS X

How To Become A Hacker

UnixTutorials - Unix tutorials for all your needs

Firefox 2.0 Review

Firefox 2.0 Review

Velly intelesting, Hans Reiser arrested, and Novell makes file storage software shift away from Reiser to Ext3

[opensuse-announce] SUSE Linux 10.1 "Remastered" available

Windows Vista is even more of a bad deal than ever, check out the Vista License Changes for what you can do and not do, and why you should check out alternative desktop options...

Linux kernel gains new real-time support

Linux kernel gains new real-time support

Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory

Shell Scripting Primer

Caller Id decoder

ShotgunGuide.com - Official Rules for Calling Shotgun

Fun and Easy How to Guide to Binding Your Own Paperback Books At Home…FAST

From the title, How To Look Like A UNIX Guru would seem to be a column of advice about wearing suspenders, a patriarchal beard that combines the length of ZZ Top and the entymoligical-sheltering qualities of Richard Stallman and an attitude that rivals the dinosaurs, "Here's a quarter Kid, go buy a real computer", but it's really about how to do cool command line stuff.

There, I've had my fun with that one, read the article

A great guide on how to Keep your Web site online with a High Availability Linux Apache cluster

iTunes Cheat Sheet

Linux.com's great guide to Running .Net applications on Linux with Mono

This guy maintains there will be a Vista budget vacuum of about $3250-5000 PER USER to deal with, check it out, it's an article and a link to the most boring podcast ever, but he makes a good point

More about da 'Buntu, some opines that Canonical seeks profit from free Ubuntu

Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 2

Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet

Excellent tutorial about How to Criticize a Software Developer Without Getting Punched, a must for those who interact with developers, Open or otherwise

Never mind the religious stuff on the left side, that's traditional God-based religion, read the community religious war essay on the right, about KDE vs. Gnome

What more can be said, I just ordered my LEGO Ice Cube Tray from the LEGO Shop

What more can I say, go get your LEGO Ice Cube Tray from the LEGO Shop

A much needed update to the Linux Kernel F-word Count, this is a good use of Google Code Searching technology, it's easy to see what language is hardest to program with and in, as per the Expletives per source package and license count

5 ways to building a better blog, but one of them isn't to blog this posting... Hmmm....

Enable password aging on Linux systems

VI with clippy, sick!

Wield the Shield: How Trustworthy Is Your OS? is a nice layout and comparison of the various Apparmor/Solaris Containers/SELinux lockdown tools out there in Unix/Linux Land.

The Unix Acronym List: Unix Commands

Let's see how accurate PC World's 100 Fearless Forecasts turns out to be, some interesting things in this posting...

Perian - A swiss-army knife for QuickTime

Airport Wireless Internet Access Guide

GNU/Linux on laptops

Everything Linux - A Tutorial on Using Rsync

Analyst Firm Gets It Half-Right:

"IDC, a well-known analyst firm (and, in the interest of full disclosure, a sister firm of CIO's publisher, CXO Media), has just released a study on the topic of open source, concluding that open source represents "the most significant all-encompassing and long-term trend that the software industry has seen since the early 1980s."

IDC surveyed 5000 developers in 116 countries and discovered that open source is used by 71% of them and -- perhaps more surprisingly -- is used in 54% of their production environments."

Yet another reason to never, ever use a desktop again, you can now Charge your AAs over USB

Oh sweet mystery of (Storage) life, at last I've found you... Get a load of this 12-Drive RAID Storage Box for only $840!!!

Technology Preview for Transparent Paravirtualization

This just in: Research Looks at How Open Source Software Gets Written

"Computer software systems are now among the most complex, expensive artifacts ever created by humans, and some of the most sophisticated are being built by teams of volunteers as "open source" projects, where any programmer can read the code and suggest changes. A group of UC Davis researchers has just received a three-year, $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study how open source software such as the Apache Web server is built."

Gotta love this, they didn't even release this yet, and already we know people are going to hack it: Hackers, start your engines: all Vista versions on one DVD

OMFG, I laughed so hard when this came across my RSS Feed: Breaking up with you, your daughter is prettier and easier

The Linux Advantage in Web Hosting from Linuxinsider:

While companies may be drawn to the stability, savings, flexibility and other advantages of Linux in a Web hosting setting, they are still committing to a platform and road map that is far less defined when they choose Linux, according to Rackspace Vice President of Research and Development Paul Frouton. "Having a company or person to fall back on becomes much more important."

Novell Honors Top Global Training Partners, and the Northeast area has 3 of the best of those success stories!

Sims Archive is a link that has about 100 free PC games. Try it out.

Linux Gamers' Game List

Comprehensive guide to .htaccess- intro

Who Is Jonathan Ive?

Every Web 2.0 Company On One Page

Blogcritics.org: Ten Things That Will Happen to TV and Newspapers

Boot a Dead PC with Nothing but a Thumb Drive

There is a huge company in Australia that's putting all it's IT infrastructure onto Linux, but they don't want to talk about it, because they're using using Fedora, of all things.

Why anyone would base such a large infrastructure on what is essentially a science experiment when there are MUCH better solutions, even from Red Hat themselves, I would question the logic of this move.

Intel Core 2 Duo Vs. AMD AM2 Review on ExtremeTech

GroupWise "Add-ons" : OIT Support for GroupWise

Linux4kids: Educational Linux Software

The Linux killer app: KDE's Konqueror is a great article about Konquie, which is my preferred file manager other than the command line.

HOWTO Access A Superfast Linux Desktop From Anywhere Using FreeNX

Do everything right from the command line

Test your web design in different browsers - Browsershots

Clock - Online Alarm Clock - onlineclock.net

I LOVE THIS, you can Search the Web, vi Style, using the beloved HJKL keys...

IT'S HAPPENED! I have predicted for years that UNTIL we have GUI ACL SUPPORT in the Linux Desktop we won't see a large adoption of Linux by normal or semi-professional users, and it's finally happened, noted here in the article: A first look at GNOME 2.16

Have a look at the Dual Core CPU Buyer's Guide, and get one, I did, and I love the speed and ability to handle many multiple VM instances on one machine...

Goodness, we've made the index of Forbes with : Really Free Software

How to use multiple programs on the console without having to worry about staying logged in, use screen

Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial - A Beginner's handbook

A huge list of Programming Quotations to make .sig lines out of, or just email the more damning and appropriate ones to your fave bit-twiddler...

Proof that emacs contains EVERYTHING you need, include swapping and bloat: someone found on the Mac that they've hidden Tetris hidden in the terminal

In case you were wondering "How BitTorrent Works", this article will explain it in some good detail

Free Help Setting up Your Router or Firewall

Open source "gaining enormous momentum"

Security Engineering - A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems

21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic

We're going to be seeing more Linux Laptops

Good info on 6 Ways To Organize - Your Mail Application

New phones run Skype without PC

Want to dd a drive and then do forensics on it? Use Live View and make sure to report any bugs you find.

Linux commands Listing and links

Yeeeooowwwccchhhh! Start Saving, Vista Prices Leaked
Makes a guy glad he's all Unix/Linux based, I tell you.

OpenOffice to be 'true' Mac application

Looking for good monitoring tools for database or application services? Check out: Quest Software

Very interesting move: OpenOffice goes Premium

Linux Terminal Server goes OSS: Maltese company 2X Software release product under GPL license

This, as the reviewer says, is somewhat creepy: The Babykeeper: toilet training with visual aids

However, and that's a big HOWEVER, this might be much better than having Junior or Daisy actually TOUCH anything in the bathroom, contracting some heinous Andromeda Strain or Gangrene.

God knows when I have to take my child process into the bathrooms in public, I continually reinforce "Don't Touch ANYTHING"...

Popular Science's poll to vote for Your Fave Fembot. I have no idea who these people are... Really.

So you've been wondering, here's the answer for the clueless: Cheatsheet: What is Digg?

Who needs a Syringe USB Flash Drive?

NOVELL/SUSE Internal Only

Novell Wiki: SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Transfer Training

Edubuntu, Linux Terminal Server and thin clients

Core 2 Duo notebooks offered from $850

Results from the 2006 Desktop Linux Survey - Part 1

Pocket 4 In 1 Screwdriver, 744, General Tools at Cyberguys.com

Flash Clocks # 2

Data Center Guys - Free Flash Clocks

Capricorn releases a 120TB storage system

ABC News: Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 is finally usable as a Desktop!

Got a really irritating sales call? Use the anti-telemarketing EGBG counterscript to really drive them crazy.

I have just used it, and the guy was nearly in tears. I didn't do anything mean, I just totally ruined his ability to follow the script they had for him. We ended up with me giving him advice to make him a more polite sales person and getting thanked for the advice...

9 Bittorrent how-to’s at Torrentfreak

A remote incremental backup of all your files could be as easy as "rdiff-backup / host.net::/target-dir"

Holy Feet, Batman, it's a HUGE guide to all Things MacOS X, and theres some really interesting stuff here...

Backing up your Linux desktop with rsync

Best and most popular Linux applications, by The Linux Information Project

GEOS: The Graphical Environment Operating System

Techworld reports that Windows Vista may be the last of its kind, aka it will be virtualized in the next and subsequent versions

LDAP Authentication In Linux

Review: Free Linux Desktops

Novell: Linux desktop is ready

Google, MSN etc.: What do they know about you? And what the heck can you do about it?

You have to go look at GIMPshop from the guys and Plastic Bugs, if you think the GIMP interface SUCKS, then this will make the GIMP look just like PhotoShop.

How Vista screws dual-booting nirvana

Department of Defense study urges open source adoption

What does your browser reveal about you?

The Real Impact of Open Source - IDC Study concludes it will play a role in the life-cycle of every major software category.

Mostly Harmless: Democracy Player on SuSE 10.0

Mplayer RPM's for several RPM-based distros

Download videos from YouTube.com from the Linux Command Line.

10 things you should be monitoring about your company and what it's showing on the web and in public.

Trying to get a friend or relative that isn't very email compatible to get a web account? Try this article: Web Email Market: An Overview and let them choose which one they want.

New York School Districts Select Linux Desktops from Novell to Improve Student Access to Technology

The very cool new Samurai Gecko and Team Player Gecko wallpaper are on the Official Novell Logos page, including the new quick Your Linux is Ready Samurai Gecko video clip.

Go get some Gecko-san.

Open-Source Licenses Get Categorized, Not Ranked

First draft of license proliferation committee report about the proliferation of OSS licenses and what to do about it.

'Best of Show' SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop at LinuxWorld

Red Hat a no-show at LinuxWorld

Hoosier Daddy? In Indiana Schools, It's Linux - Operating System, Open Source, ACCESS - CRN

Linux In The Channel Study

Building a SAN Storage Device Using iSCSI on SUSE Linux - Part 1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Technical Library

Simplify data extraction using Linux text utilities

LinuxWorld Analysts Cite Hottest Open Source Trends - Resellers, Virtualization, and "Mixed Deployments"

Take a look at the Versora Progression Desktop for Linux, a tool that migrates Windows desktop settings over to Linux desktops, easing the transtion!

Moosy blog has some cool Compiz Tweaks to show to everyone

SLED 10 Is a Linux Distro Windows Users Can Love

How To Crack 128-bit Wireless Networks In 60 Seconds for information and recreational purposes only...

Dreamlinux -- Could it get any simpler?

Hacking Techniques in Wireless Networks is a very handy resource for knowing what can be done to your network.
Yeah, that's what it is for. Yeah.

Tinfoil Hat Linux is described as a secure, single floppy, bootable linux distro for storing pgp keys and then encrypting, signing and wiping files, but the next line really says it best:

"At some point it became an exercise in overengineering"

Hacking OpenSUSE

Finally, the tide is turning: Baiters Teach Scammers a Lesson

Desktop Linux breakthrough: Lenovo preloads SUSE on ThinkPad

Black Hat Takes Vista to Task and P0wns it completely.

Nuremberg hopes to create 'Linux Valley'

SUSE Linux Rants - Scott Morris' blog about SUSE and stuff

Novell bans proprietary Linux modules
Er, we did? Oh yeah.

Head off for south america, or wherever they don't have an extradition treaty, but only after reading the List of Portable Software so you only have to pack undies and a USB Key.

How useful is A guide to building a software KVM switch?

Very.

Producing Open Source Software is another very interesting book about what it takes to run a successful OSS project, a must read for all those aspiring RMS's out there...

Pane Relief: Virtual Operating Systems is a cool book, it's on informit so those of us with informit accounts can read it online or print the pdf's, but it's worth it.

Run IE6 on OS X (WINE)? It's sick, but it's MY kind of sick, and besides our damned Expense Management System runs off of IE, at least until we get it replaced.

Learn Linux - On Line Classmates

It might be old hat, but this is an article about Open Source and it's School Successes

It might be old hat, but this is an article about Open Source and it's School Successes

Heh, how bad is it when you blog about a guy who gets email that promote's blogs?

Well, pretty bad, so here you go: Channelweb Exclusive News

13 Great Firefox Extensions for Web Professionals

Ultimate desktop search: Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 and Beagle

Don't you just love it when someone catharticly pours out their experience getting some brain-numbing thing to work , and it's on a website that's findable by other poor souls doing the same thing?
I do, so here it is.Printer Sharing from MacOSX

Since my entire house and working life are all Unix/Linux based, ie: I have a dual-boot SLED/OSX Macbook Pro, a HP ZV5000 that's my storage server that runs SLES10 and multiple work machines all running SLES/SLED, it's mostly for fun that I manage to keep track of How Does Open Source Software Stack Up on the Mac?

O’Reilly Book on SUSE Linux

Since Red Hat is Announcing End of Life times for Fedora Core 1, 2, Red Hat Linux 7.3, 9, I want to eulogize, or kick dirt on some of these.

For example, what a sweetheart of an OS RH 7.3 was. I ran it until it was so old that it didn't really work well anymore, but damn did I get a LOT of work out of this old horse. In fact, that was the last version of Red Hat's product that I think I have used other than to compare it to SUSE for a bakeoff/pepsi challenge/comparison whitepaper since.

Oh, and DON'T get me STARTED on RH 8 and RH 9, the Window's ME's of Linux. Dominae es Requiem, Good Night Johnboy, See Ya.

Apple's Mighty Mouse finally gets Bluetooth and I'm going to get one the MOMENT they arrive.

In answer to the question posed by the article: Do Google ads belong on a company desktop?, I reply "Hell No".

Well, at least I will boycott anything like this, ads for anything that you don't actually make in house shouldn't be placed on company resources.

It's like those STUPID ads in the back of the computer rags years ago (and not that many, either) with the two people apparently screaming at each other placed like bookends on each side of the add, mostly for hosting companies. Sheesh, you just GUARANTEED that I wouldn't use your company by lacking imagination and using the same clip art as every other advertiser...

killall -9 rant

List of operating systems - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tip: SLED 10 and ATI Drivers with XGL

Lots of these sorts of links popping up lately, could it be that The Internet is Your Next Hard Drive?

Oh darn, if Vista slips, (shocked, I am, SHOCKED to hear this) it could mean a $200 To $400 Million Hit

Wired News: Linux: Fewer Bugs Than Rivals

Top five things Linux can learn from Microsoft, as opposed to the top 300 things Microsoft can learn from Linux, including things like "Stop treating your user's like criminals until they are convicted..."

From the "Oh damn, we have to start stealing Free Software now" department: Software freeloaders driven to pay … or use Linux

Artec T14A USB TV Tuner: HDTV on a Laptop

Speech Recognition for Linux: Wizzard Software Releases WizzScribe SI For Linux

Interesting, how to Restore XP Activation if you have to.

God forbid you should have to, but it's good to know How to restore a hacked Linux server

Doh! Microsoft is owned on home turf!!!

OpenOffice.org does a drive-by on Microsoft

I coined the phrase "Microsoft Embrace and Extend is effectively Date Rape practiced on Protocols" and they're going to do it again, only with the Xen Project.

Mark my words, then take a look at the article: Microsoft gives Linux a virtual hug

Linux Timeline | Linux Journal

Master Firefox's Hidden Configuration Tools

Hey, I got a story about VMWare and it's demise on Linuxtoday.com

Hey, I got a story about VMWare and it's demise on Linuxtoday.com

SLES 10: Not Your Father's Suse

From the "Old Crap with a New Name" department: Microsoft releases new OS for old PCs

From the "Trekkies and Trainers" department: Podcasts popular in the holodeck

learn UNIX in 10 minutes

Searching with find

The Death of VMWare

Something that isn't popular at all with VMWare engineers, salespeople or anyone else who's bought heavily into VMWare technology is my theory that VMWare is headed quickly to relative obscurity within about 2 years.

What with the drumbeat of virtualization technologies all available for free or low/no cost, including VMWare Player, the VMWare Server product, Microsoft's Virtual Server R2 Enterprise and of course Xen 2.0/3.0, VMWare's for-pay services and software seem increasingly expensive and unnecessary for a growing class of users.

Don't get me wrong, I have used (and paid for religiously) VMWare products ever since V1.0, and it's been a great ride, I couldn't imagine doing what I have done with modeling networks, running multiple OS instances for testing, running p2p software on crappy old Windows instances for spyware isolation, without using VMWare's products.

That said, I am predicting that unless VMWare does at least 2 things in the next year, there will be a LOT of VMWare ex-customers that stumble out of the back end of VMWare in about 2 years looking dazed and wondering what they will do now that VMWare's world domination is over...

Item 1: They should alter or update their Virtual Center software to include support for management of Xen systems. The biggest hitch for most people is that VMWare was first, but they aren't Xen friendly, often throwing FUD about with alacrity that Xen is not ready or good enough, but it's like having dinosaurs declare that asteroids will never hit the earth, orthat the coming Ice Age isn't ready for prime time.

Make no mistake, when Xen is JGE (Just Good Enough) it will be implemented in large numbers, and it's almost there for the less intrepid, and fully there for the more adventurous and scarred of sysadmin veterans.

Item 2: Develop a strategy around using Xen or opening Xen VM's or something that keeps VMWare valid in an increasingly Xen world out there. VMWare's virtualization is pretty heavy and resource-intensive, what with the full emulation of the entire physical machine, while Xen is much friendlier to the resources of the host machine.

Again, this is not designed to get blog hits, it's something that is very valid in my environment, people who are heavily invested in VMWare WILL be needing help with what to do next, IF VMWare doesn't remain relevant for the future, either near future or long.

Ross

Mad Penguin's got a review of SLE 10, fair and clear, take a look at: SUSE Linux Enterprise 10, a Closer Look

Oracle says they will now Offer RedHat Support?, since Red Hat can't properly support their own product...

:: Reviews : Desktop Linux Defined: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10

Conky - a light-weight system monitor

HP To Certify Suse Linux For Notebooks

This Online Whiteboard is very cool, you can draw on it, invite others by IM and save and mail the results.

Toronto School Expels Linux Lab

Add Windows media support to your Linux box

From the "Appropriate Insertion of a Module" department: eHarmony and open source software make a good match

LinuxBIOS is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the normal BIOS with a little bit of hardware initialization and a compressed Linux kernel that can be booted from a cold start.

Google Earth Cool Places - famous buildings, beautiful places, weird land formations

Functioning Form - SxSW: OSX and Longhorn Development is a nice take on the differing development models of OSX and Longhorn, er, Shorthorn, um, Vista.

Five Things You Must Know About VoIP

Get yourself and customers on the Linux Counter site, it's an attempt to registere all the Linux users out there and provide a semi-official statistic, plus you get your own registered logo Tuxxie graphic...

I predicted this to our partners and customers a while ago, have seen it twice in the US, seems that people in Australia are plugging up USB slots to protect data from theft

Setup the SSH server to use keys for authentication

Building a Linux cluster on a budget

For all my buddies in Idaho and Montana who really care if there is a satellite overhead at a particular time, here's how to see: REAL TIME SATELLITE TRACKING

Ext4 Filesystem Development Plan Unveiled

Bruce S. the Security Guy says that there really is a Microsoft Windows Kill Switch that the folks in Redmond will start to use if you don't license up.

He also theorizes that this will do a LOT for non-MS OSes, such as say, Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Products... that are available for pre-release downloading

Red Hat Sued over Hibernate 3 ORM Patent Infringement Claim

Novell takes Microsoft fight to desktop

Red Hat Partners Report More Customers Dropping Windows for Linux

Free Royalty Free Stock Photography - Home

The newbies guide to detecting the NSA - or are YOU being wiretapped?

Download Skype for Linux

NOVELL: SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Sneak Peek

Migration Kit for Solaris OS to Linux

Awesome Video Site Cheat Sheet shows you where to go to get what you want...

Linux, Make The Switch

Gliffy.com - Create and share diagrams online.

A really interesting and enlightening Interview with Bing Gordon (EA) media chief and creative genius

Looks like the Firefox campaign showed the folks at OO.o how to Place an OpenOffice.org Ad

Get a copy of OO.o and spread the word, it's the best OSS package ever to run on Windows...

Novell hits a desktop home run with SLED 10

Neill McCallister says "Novell should be proud of this latest release. SLED 10 is hands down the most polished desktop Linux distribution I’ve ever used — and that includes Ubuntu."

Oh, let the flame fest begin, but I love SLED too, it's the first version of the OS to make me not want to run regular SUSE Linux, it's that good.

Now that Opera 9.0 has been Released, does it really matter? Has Firefox filled your browser dance card completely? I know it has for me.

Announcing an installer for Evolution on Win32

Vista Beta 2 on MacBook Pro with Bootcamp? You bet!

German Linux migration not a taxing decision - ZDNet UK News

Head To Head: Can Novell SUSE Linux Take On Microsoft Windows Vista?

For Dell, industry standard now includes Linux

China Earthquake Administration Chooses Linux from Novell for Earthquake Monitoring

Is it too little to late? VMware to release next-gen virtualization software

I've got the MBPro triple-booted and a 8700C, so having the two companies get jiggy would be good: AppleBerry might be the next big thing

IBM's MASSIVE Migration Station: a set of links for about everything you can imagine and some you can't related to migrating to Linux from other OSes

Univ of Washington put it's entire Cryptography Course online, including Lecture Slides and Video Archives

Check out the Tom's Hardware 500 Hour and 40 page review, it's a fascinating read: 500 Hour Test of Tomorrow's Windows "Vista"

Oh, and it gets worse and Sleazier Still

Microsoft Consulting Engagement Manager effectively phishes someone's company to get them to engage for a "review" of their licensed products, what a Rotten Effort that is...

Oh my, could there be ONLY 20 Things You Won't Like About Windows Vista?

Can't get your crappy vpn connection to properly download the SUSE DVD ISO's??? Download the CD ISO's and read this howto about Making a SUSE DVD from CD ISO's

This poor guy has absolute hell installing Vista Beta 2, and cathartically writes about it in: Windows Vista Beta 2: Key word is Beta

Shell Script to Monitor Disk Usage

Backing up your Linux desktop with rsync

CLI Magic: rsnapshot

Ease package management with SUSE's y2pmsh

Updating SuSE Linux clients from a local update server

CLI Magic: Porting DVDs with HandBrake

Convert any video file to DVD with open source tools

Connecting Linux or UNIX system to Network attached storage device

Automate Linux installation and recovery with SystemImager

System Builders to Novell: We'll give you a listen

First Look at SUSE Linux 10.1

Hacking with Nat Friedman

Kororaa live CD has Linux quivering

Banshee -- the next best thing to Linux iTunes

Linux Tips: The proper way to allow regular users to run commands as root

Mirror Your Web Site With rsync

The Jem Report - Hacking SUSE Linux 10.1

You all know I am _so_ not political in my public life, and this is no exception, the fact that AT&T (See Berke Breathed's "Death Star" comic) and everyone else in the phone biz but Qwest has been supplying the NSA with stats on our phone calls is outlined in this Leaked Document that Wired put up today.

It's a pdf, and by posting this I am making _no_ political, red vs. blue or right vs. left statement whatsoever, just that I found this to be something that provoked a LOT of thought about the line between what's good for catching terrorism and what's spying on your citizens.

Torvalds opens up the Kimono a little, AGH, shut it! SHUT IT!

Reclusive Linux founder opens up

Nine things you should know about GNOME's Nautilus File Manager

I'm looking for good excuses NOT to use Microsoft's new Live mapping service, and Pictometry Intl's technology is the focus of the article: Aerial Mapping Takes Another Leap

NOVELL: Cool Solutions: Make SUSE DVDs

If you haven't seen these, you're missing out on some VERY funny videos, it's all the NOVELL Marketing Videos from Brainshare's past, particularly check "Novellionaire" and "Kernel", "Instant Message" and "Backup" are really good too.

NOVELL: Cool Solutions: How to Build a Mixed OES Cluster using iSCSI

How embarassing can you possibly get. It's like having Vanilla Ice working at our company...

NOVELL: Cool Solutions: Novell OpenRap

NOVELL: Cool Solutions: Toptool for Linux

NOVELL: Cool Solutions: Free GroupWise 7 Training Materials from Messaging Architects

NOVELL: Cool Solutions: Reference List of SUSE Linux Resources

10 Gnome Tweaks You Can’t Live Without

GNOME Custom Hotkey for Application Launch - Custom Keyboard Shortcut

Novell Delivers Device Driver Breakthrough to Accelerate Linux Adoption

Microsoft flirts with open source, more like Microsoft get's it's face slapped in a bar, but the articlewill tell you more

Many, Many thanks to all the attendees of Albany Linux Day, we had over 60 local folks come see our show, which was primarily to keep everyone updated and to help answer questions about testing and implementing Linux in their organizations. You all were great, and keep an eye out for flying penguin squish toys....

One of the questions was about using free software on Windows, and I mentioned the Open CD project which is a great collection of gateway applications and tools for running Open Source on Windows, thereby avoiding the higher costs of MS office suites and other proprietary packages. Download an ISO and give these free/open apps a try, and the best thing is you can give as many to your friends and colleagues as you want.

Speaking of Linux and the Desktop, the Wall Street Journal has the first article in a series about can their reporter switch to a Linux Desktop, give Out the Window a read and see if you agree with what they find.

Building Packages for Novell's Linux Products

What if you held a revolution, and nobody cared?

The article: FreeBSD vows to compete with desktop Linux is really kind of sad and funny to me, since I admire the *BSD's like I admire Southwest Airlines, they are doing the right thing to make extremely affordable access to their respective products, but I don't admire them enough to want to consume those products.

After years of being a business traveller, I don't really care for being herded onto a Southwest flight like a bunch of cattle, surrounded by half or fully-besotted vacationing leather-skinned older women with a voice that sounds like a bucket full of ground glass and drunken college kids.

For the *BSD's, there are two things that bother me about them, firstly their licenses mean that anyone can effectively use their code and never have to contribute back, (the dating example would be after the 1 night stand, the guy never calls her back, or even worse, just comes over and gets some more and then never calls either) and of course some of the people in that camp, such as Theo de Raadt, who manages often to do more harm than good, mostly by opening his mouth, such as this interview. There's a lot to be said for just programming and letting the marcom guys do their job...

A typical hit-piece from Emmett Dulaney: Novell’s "Newest" Linux Desktop Move

I've not been much of a fan of his since he crapped all over my first book because it didn't meet his personal agenda for a class. This piece shows the same general lack of a coherent reason for his dis-satisfaction, and I think was probably written to get some press.

Better Late than Never: SUSE 10.1 Goes Gold

Interview: Novell's Greg Mancusi-Ungaro

Vim tips: Using viewports

The Pepper Pad: open alternative to Microsoft's Origami

Pardon my lack of belief that Microsoft will willingly do anything that would make it easier for anything Open to happen, but apparently there's news about new ODF Plug-ins and a Microsoft Promise of Cooperation

Server Monitoring With munin And monit

As if we mouse potatoes needed any more reason to not do anything physical, Wired's list of Gadgets for the Lazy

You Go Ron, our next CEO says Users buy Linux on reliability

Download the Democracy client, and Kill your real TV, it's time for Internet TV

A new way to cut your power bill

Big Blue's Intel Server Line Gets Virtualization Overhaul

Windows to Linux Migrations Made Easy

Who needs Microsoft Live? Check out the ThinkFree Online Review at ExtremeTech

Linspire finally goes free, as in really free, it's called: Freespire

Dr. Jeff Jaffe's Blog has a great entry that details what's cool about the SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 release due this June.

Cringley's latest take on the Apple OS X running natively Windows apps: Native Speaker

IBM Redbooks | z/VM and Linux on IBM System z: The Virtualization Cookbook for SLES9

Sun Microsystems Sets World Records for MCAE Applications on AMD Opteron Processor-based Sun Fire Servers

The REALLY cool thing? They were running SUSE Linux X64 on those world-record-breaking boxes!

IBM to Oracle: you can't buy open source

How Virtualization Led Microsoft to Support Linux and Other Tales

Interview: Andrey Savochkin from the OpenVZ project about Virtualization options

Gad, Dvorak seems almost sensible in his assertion that Apple Needs to Make OS X Open-Source

Great article about switching from the PC to the Mac from Anandtech: A Month with a Mac: A Die-Hard PC User's Perspective

Destroy all data on your MBPro? Yes you can, but you can also Triple Boot via BootCamp

Stupid Op Ed Piece # 2: Bunk Camp: Apple gets it wrong: PCs

Stupid Op Ed Piece about Apple's Boot Camp # 1: Dare I say this aloud? Boot Camp is a gimmick: Operating Systems Software

Novell still running Windows

Q&A with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak

Funa and Games with BASH, including: Access to command line history in BASH

Here we go, Triple-Boot coming up: Apple's BootCamp boots Linux!

Here we go, Triple-Boot coming up: Apple's BootCamp boots Linux!

Pigs have wings, Microsoft supports Linux again in Virtual Server, check it out: Microsoft Shows Linux VM Support, Open Source Wares At LinuxWorld

Ah shit, like having found the perfect woman and she dies in a car accident: Another great company begins the migration down the alimentary canal of the beast:Onfolio Acquisition Information

These new little WD Passport Pocket 6 GB Hard Drives are absolutely cool, ordered one and can't wait to try it out.

I've never seen this much enthusiasm for the Linux Desktop, we have been demo'ing the latest version's beta, and when they say Novell Wows Crowd with Linux Desktop, it's absolutely true.

Attend the Migrating to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 course for FREE!

NOVELL: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop Videos

I've said this before, Mr. Allchin, how does it feel to have a long and industrious career and NEVER HAVE SHIPPED A SINGLE PRODUCT?

Apparently he'll retire soon, Heads Roll As Microsoft Misses Vista Target

Seems from a scientific standpoint, the answer to Life, the Universe and Zeta Functions is really 42

Tutorial: How OS X Executes Applications

Ooh Shiny!

Microsoft Vista: Not 'People Ready' - Forbes.com

Take a look at this article where the author takes you on a tour of My sysadmin toolbox

Mac stuff for the Enterprise

Mastering Wget

Mastering Wget

8,000 Admins speak out and the report from British Industry - The price of Windows says that Windows has some problems...

From the "Gee this dog food really tastes like, well, dog food" department: Microsoft Vista and .NET shows that Microsoft isn't using very much .NET code in Vista.

A quick plug for my brother Ray's new CD; RAY MARCEL QUARLES: Real Eyes. He's a man of many talents, including an accomplished photog, look for him on CafePress...

A quick plug for my brother Ray's new CD; RAY MARCEL QUARLES: Real Eyes. He's a man of many talents, including an accomplished photog, look for him on

Wow, I didn't know you could Automatically set location based on the connected SSID???

Paul Thurrott writes: My Wife Is Switching to the Mac, and so did mine, but I'm not a guy who has covered and LOVED intimately Windows all his professional life, I just got tired of rebuilding her Sony Vaio all the time.

So the MacBook Pro is going very well, except Apple somehow sent me a Spanish version of the machine, so we're currently doing the RMA dance.

I've found a bunch of sites that offer Universal Binary versions of apps, including a ton of utilities, I'll post those as I find out the ones that help me replace Winbloze/Linux for my home machine usage.

Novell's released a new set of technologies that make for a very interesting desktop, the press release: NOVELL Raises the Bar for the Linux Desktop also has some cool video's showing the technologies in action

Ars Technica just posted a review of the Macbook Pro, and while it's not the heaviest metal of reviews, it gives some good feedback, read the article here and then check out the comments on the Slashdot - MacBook Pro Reviewed page.


My fave quote is: "I just got back from the Apple Compatibility Labs in Cupertino, and I was able to put my code on a MacBook Pro to do some build comparisons. On my current PowerBook G4, with a 7200 RPM drive, 1 GB RAM and a 1.67 G4, it takes about 20-25 minutes to do a full Release rebuild of my code (Universal Binary). It took around 5 on the MacBook Pro. Thank God my boss was with me to help test because that's the easiest convincing that I need a new laptop I ever done.

Bottom line : if you're a developer and you have long compile times on your code (AND you have the need/desire to be mobile), you NEED one of these machines."

Jono Bacon (great name!) takes a look at the reasons why people *say* they aren't moving to the Linux Desktop, and shows some to be a little on the dodgy side in Breaking down barriers to Linux desktop adoption

Read about the town of SteamBoat Springs adoption of OSS in Rocky Mountain high for open source

Wow, if this wasn't just about what happened in our house the night before "she" arrived, how could Nitrozac and Snaggy know??? MacBook P0Rn

My first posting from the new Macbook Pro, it's incredibly fast, most apps take less than a single icon jump to open and be usable, even creaky old Photoshop runs speedily enough in Rosetta.  Much more later.

Novell's Podcast, the inaugral show: Novell Open Audio

In our first episode, host Ted Haeger introduces Novell Open Audio. We then take a look at iFolder with Brady Anderson and Calvin Gaisford. Finally, Guy Lunardi provides us an update on Novell Linux Desktop.

Heres one for the "Dell is cheaper than Apple for a laptop" crowd: Updating the MacBook Pro-Dell comparison shows that a comparable setup from Dell only saves you about $18.00 bucks and that's before you steal, er, re-use a copy of Office from work...

Finally a use for MSN, you can check for the lowest Gas Prices in your area.

Yikes, 60M lines of code!? I had deja vu all over again reading A History of GroupWise and remembering installing GW on 6,000 desktops at Medtronic, shiver...

A Look at GNOME 2.14

Instead of playing around defining open document standards, Korea Plans to Build a Linux City, and a University!

Time to revisit Miguel's great paper: Let's Make Unix Not Suck

Time to revisit Miguel's great paper: Let's Make Unix Not Suck

Don't think we can get Windows apps running on a Mac without a VMWare-style product? Then check out Darwine - windows apps on a Mac *without windows*

Thanks Apple! Apple shipping MacBook Pros with faster processors

I love this, someone takes on the Dell marketing beast, and asks Does Dell beat MacBook Pro on price?

Wow this is as embarassing as it can get, the concept of FanBoy is defined clearly in this article: MIKE WENDLAND: Apple iMac is simply the best

From our friends over at IBM, this Redbook is a guide for System Administrators who are doing a Solaris to Linux Migration, and who isn't?

Build a SAN on the cheap

What to do with the empty Whisky/glass bottles; Whisky PC by MetkuMods - Because you love your hardware!

At the risk of sounding like a _total_ fanboy, the Power, er, MacBook Pro should be shipping the 15th, and I should have it by the 17th.

Check out what the ComputerWorld guys said about the machine, in "Fast? This Baby Cooks"

Try MultiTail to show more than a single file in tail

I guess that it's a combination of Open and Proprietary competitive pressures that prompts VMware to make server product free as they apparently will give away GSX Server for free download next week.

For those of you who really MUST run that diseased browser from the land of insufficient light, (I mean IE) at least you can make it more useful with the Foxie enhancement, it gives you a lot of things including tabbed browsing.

Now if I could just get our expenses people to dump the system that forces me to do expenses in IE, I'd be happy.

I think it's good news that Red Hat Plans a Linux Distro for MacBook Pro, but I (as a Novell/SUSE guy) don't want to use "Little Red" on MY box, so I'm publicly asking the OpenSUSE team to get cracking on this!

It's nice to see Mono getting it's own ecosystem, books and such, it's a great project.

Read the review of Practical Mono

Great gadget article from an odd source, I'd typically rather have a dental visit than interact with PMSNBC, having lumped them in with such technical wastelands as AOL.

They surprised me with a neat layout of Skype and VOIP goodies called Free Calls Get Pretty

Great gadget article from an odd source, I'd typically rather have a dental visit than interact with PMSNBC, having lumped them in with such technical wastelands as AOL.

They surprised me with a neat layout of Skype and VOIP goodies called Free Calls Get Pretty

The Beeb reports: Scientific brain linked to autism, which is a cause for concern, since we know that every few years the typical scientist will descend from the heights of scientific detachment to the realm of the physical and after a few Vodka Collins's might get lucky and have sex, and some of those times have to result in a pregnancy, so it's no wonder it took so long for this trend to be recognized!

Ok, so that was fun to get out, but in all honesty I can say that not autism, but asperger's syndrome is the main cause for concern for me. I took the test I found in Wired's The Geek Syndrome article a while back and scored solidly in the rankings for having an order-oriented mind.

Try it, then administer it to that co-worker who's so irritating that you want to kill them with a copy of a dilbert book.

Everyone's favorite sound byte source and complete nutball; Kevin Mitnick proclaims that OSS is an easier hack, and proves who's side he's on...

Well, give me a long weekend and what do I get done? Not yardwork, that's for sure...


I managed to get the Mac OS X Intel edition developer kit software (we're legal, relax) to load on my IBM Thinkpad T42p, not to my complete satisfaction, but definitely operational.


The video is pretty low-res, only 1024x768 so far, but I'm working on it, the ethernet card is the only valid netowrking device, no wireless, nor do I see 10.4.3 working with wireless, but I have heard that 10.4.4 is likely to work properly with certain third-party cards.


I press the F-keys and the proper things happen, DVD's and CD's are read properly, I can connect and do the usual things on the web. iTunes is an older and about to expire version, so I'll see what I can do to update it, ie: download the power version and install it to run under Rhapsody, er, Evolution, um, Rosetta, whatever the hell they call the translation software...


I have it running in VMWare also, with full functionality, 1400x1050 resolution, same problem with iTunes, and it's definitely not running at full speed. So it's possible, and even likely that Apple will see a lot more people running OS X on Intel than they did run on the Power boxes, but obviously not supported.


The other issue that I see happening is that we'll probably be triple-booting OS X, SUSE and Win XP/Vista if it's even remotely possible. I will be dual-booting OS X and SUSE Linux 10.2 (which they have reported will load and run and integrates very closely with the iMac Intel, and probably will with the MacBook Pro.


I've ordered the MacBook Pro, (about 2 minutes after he announced it) and will post impressions of it when it arrives. I definitely expect some glitches and early adopter kvetching to occur, but my time utilization has dropped to below 100% lately, so it's time to play with something else for a change..


Ross

Read more about Parallels, a competing product to VMWare, though much cheaper and somewhat of a knock-off.

Remember that scene in the movie where the hero says: "Hold it or this computer get's a virus?", or something like that, well either you buy Vista, or you are operating an unsafe computer...

Allchin: Buy Vista for the security

Intel Mac builds for Firefox, Thunderbird and Camino are almost official, they build and work, just no flash and java yet

A new Vista on Linux

New Samba targets Active Directory

Thanks to Len at IBM for this link: All the Blade Server love you could ever want - Learning Guide: Blade Servers

Great article about how vendors are scrapping over what's left of the Unix Market - What's Left of Unix?

The CIO of the New York Police Department undertakes an Overhaul

Now THAT's what I want, sign me up, where's my credit card?

Belkin CableFree USB Hub Enables Instant Wireless Connectivity of USB Devices

Ok, so I read The essence of a Geek and I get it, but you folks need to understand the mind of a REAL geek.

When you have mastered a VERY difficult topic, and you KNOW the deal, I mean Capital "T"he Capital "D"eal, and you are the Master of the Universe you have chosen to play in, or hell, at least ONE of the Masters of that Universe, you have reached NerdVana.

Ok, so then when you find that Mom and Pop are getting into your space, when the Common Consciousness is impinging on YOUR snuggly-mind-space, then you get a little cranky and make it harder for folks to do just that.

One of the things I have learned from listening to ITConverstations.com is from Jonathan Schwartz of Sun, the posterchild of how to preside over a companies demise, (but that's ANOTHER rant) and you have to go UPMARKET away from the Common Consciousness.

If you are the MASTER of the Linux Desktop Universe, and people are getting into the Linux Desktop like the Republicans got into speed in the late 60's (and I AM a Republican, so that doesn't mean I can't use it as a JOKE, so get over it) then you need to GO UPMARKET, and find the most likely and tasty HARD THING to get into (like XEN virtualization, so go get your own) and stake your territory out, and get good at it in preparation for the MONEY PHASE.

I define the MONEY PHASE as the phase when the Common Man, or Lower Techie will pay BIG MONEY to learn how to inhabit the last part of the CURVE where it's cool and you can take advantage of that trend.

Jeesh, this is the LONGEST post I have ever put on this blog, (Thanks Sean for telling me I am a man of few words, I have used up WEEKS of them in this post alone) and I mean all of it.

Go EMEA! Firefox 'passes 20 percent market share' in Europe!

Uh oh, SWSoft is trying to get a competing virtualization standard put into the Linux Kernel.

Oh Linus, don't F*** this up, make them componentize this like you did LSM!

Read the news at: CNET - Companies push Linux partitioning effort

Want to really get the most out of the Beagle Search Tool in GNOME? Visit www.planetbeagle.org and get your Doggie ON!

A heaping helping of O'Reilly Podcasts for all my audiophilic friends and readers

An interview by John Littler from O'Reilly Dev Center with Aaron J. Seigo Previewing KDE 4

What a GREAT day, when you see on NasDaq that Apple is Worth More than Dell

Another sign of the advance of OSS, MySQL Gets Government Thumbs Up.

Well as long as it's the THUMB they are getting and not other fingers...

Great Linux Gazette article about Journalling File Systems

Homeland Security helps secure open-source code

Huh, Pigs CAN fly, they're putting mono in fc5 (that's Fedora Core 5)

Guess you shouldn't have ordered Das Kapital and Edward Abbey's Monkey Wrench Gang from Amazon, hmm?

Check out Data Mining 101: Finding Subversives with Amazon Wishlists and then go change your name and pants...

A great OS X docker application for Linux is KXDocker

Benchmarking Filesystems Part II Linux Gazette : January 2006 (#122)

Benchmarking Filesystems LG #102

New Mass CIO Appointed, Full Speed Ahead with ODF

Novell OES, The Leading Linux Server Product vs. Windows 2003, Server

What Tech Skills Are Hot for 2006?

French Military Police Switches to Firefox

Wisconsin Requires Open Source, Verifiable Voting

Boot loader showdown: Getting to know LILO and GRUB

What if Motorola Unveils iRadio
and nobody cared? I mean honestly, if I wanted to listen to Radio, I'd get something that really worked everywhere, like the XM or Sirius units that plug into the boombox or stereo, car and with headphones.

Honestly, could Motorola be more of a bunch of me-too fanboys????

A great wrapup article about A Watershed for Open Source that occurred in 2005, something we're all hopeful will be even bigger in 2006

It's probably a good idea to know What Tech Skills Are Hot For 2006?

I LOVE it when Jakob Nielsen writes a hit piece on something, and it's NOT ME doing it.
Talking-Head Video Is Boring Online (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

Never one to skirt controversy, Joe Barr asks Do LUGs still matter?

I don't know about you, but it took me almost a week to finish this article about Good and Bad Procrastination

Computer Laboratory - Xen virtual machine monitor

Wall Street Journal article about Email, with dinner

New, Modularized X Window Release Now Available for Download

Linux screensaver for Windows

NOVELL: Cool Solutions: Three-Screen Xinerama on SUSE Linux 10 - cheap

Free Software as a Social Movement

Windows 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source

Slashdot | Best Cross-Distro Installation Tools for Linux?

Slashdot | Performance Tuning for Linux Servers

The Novell Desktop team's repository of User Tests in various video formats for your viewing pleasure.

An ancient (1999) article about How to Manage Geeks with Novell leader Eric Schmidt, who went on to now be the CEO of Google.

As we used to say to each other as kids: "You're dead, you might just as well lay down now"

The demise of radio is in the near future, or at least as we know it, read about it in Static builds in radio's future-advertisers

I hope our pathfinder salespeople are on this one, wouldn't it be great if they used Novell/SUSE products?

2008 Olympics plans open source migration - Operating Systems

NOVELL: Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Earns Top Honors

I wonder if I can get one of these that works on door-to-door salesmen?

The Mosquito, read about it in What's the buzz? Teens can't stand it

A massive amount of storage on tap and affordable? Read the The Yellow Machine in Review

A LOT of media outlets and mechanisms can benefit from the lessons learned by Roblimo, and documented in his article: A Recipe for Newspaper Survival in the Internet Age

OSDL shares Desktop Linux survey results

Linux Magazine: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server voted best Enterprise Server Distro

The Mother of All CPU Charts 2005/2006 - Charts Updated With Dual Cores

Birth of the PowerBook: How Apple Took Over the Portable Market in 1991

More Google-inspired pants-wetting, this time from Wired: Who's Afraid of Google? Everyone.

A somewhat questionable result finds Ubuntu to be the best desktop for Business, beating out SUSE just because it's completely free?

What I DON'T understand is how they think that SUSE isn't completely free? You can get every line of code from it for free and download the ISO's from the SUSE site, so what's not free?

Anyway, see what they have to say in the article: Desktop Linux for small business

Hmm, seen more and more of these new free-zines popping up, this one shows some promise.

Download the PDF and read O3: The Open Source Enterprise Data Networking Magazine

Hey, if this isn't training-related, I don't know what is. A friend of ours got one of these, it's HILARIOUS and also very sound information for new dada's, take a look at: The GoodFather Baby Skills CD-ROM Software for New Dads

Craig Forrester bit-slaps Alan Canton's opinion piece with a rebuttal: Why Slackware DOES still matter!

What? Microsoft is spreading fud? Read about how Novell doubts Microsoft latest Linux facts

SHOCKED, I am, SHOCKED that the Blue Hats would do this...

Linux Professional Institute Certification Exams Top 100,000 Worldwide

Interview with Dr. Bradley Edwards of Space Elevator Fame

Should Microsoft be afraid? Yes, they can't possibly stop the raft of Desktop apps coming to the Web

A Comparison of Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD Kernels at OpenSolaris.org

Automated Backups With rdiff-backup

Hell has frozen over - Microsoft to keynote Unix conference

HP Signs Red Hat, Novell For Linux Expansion

How One City Slashed its Support Costs

IT director Bryan Tidd moves a city to Linux

Take the Desktop Linux Client Survey and help out the revolution.

InformationWeek Report: Linux is Cheaper, More Reliable and Secure, Encourages innovation.

From the "Shedding Windows one desktop (or 6000) at a time" Department:
Novell Launches the Better Desktop Initiative

Ready for MS Office the Web Edition? Read the article about how Microsoft unveils a bigger push into Web-based software, and then find the one about Google hiring OpenOffice coders to work on OO, and you get the message?

This was really funny, particularly for a SCI-FI fan, read all about how to Defend yourself against the coming robot rebellion

Red Hat CEO decries open source pretenders, tries, convicts and hangs self for the RHEL 3/4 License Agreement

Why do people switch to Linux?

From the "All Good Press is Good" Department: Linux Living in a Windows World

Another good article about using SUSE 10, on the Road by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

This is a great thing, a Sysadmin Price List for all the stupid things you could be asked.

Watch PocketPC Video - Lifehacker

A really funny take that translates the Google's Privacy Policy In Layman's Words

Huh, we all saw this one coming, there are Major layoffs expected at Novell, but mostly in the consulting division.

Wacky laptop tricks from a fellow instructor, which is how I justify this being on the Unix/Linux Training Blog!

? Ballmer: Microsoft to go after Linux strongholds or their knees with a baseball bat, Steve would be just as happy with either approach.

There's an MP3 of the whole FUD-storm linked in the article, I expected him to start throwing chairs around and using the F-word at any moment. Increase the medication, Steve...

HowTo: Use Synergy to Control Several Workstations from One Keyboard and Mouse

Discover all the software included in a SUSE distro

Korn: A Monitor for Your Email Accounts

Ever wondered Where to Get SUSE Linux?

Troubleshooting SLES Installation Problems

How to Synchronize Directories with rsync

Hook yourself up to the new Social Web with Flock: A new sort of browser

Open Source Goes on RAID with three products for storage systems that are based on OSS software.

From the German Federal Government Co-ordination and Advisory Agency (KBSt) comes this whitepaper/guide that offers incredibly detailed methods for migrating to Linux.

Migrating to OpenOffice.org 90 per cent cheaper than to Microsoft Office 12

Linux bootable USB key HOWTO

Boot Knoppix 3.6 from USB key - How To (Success!)

For the other thrill-seekers out there, learn about the Linux Kernel Crash Dump Summit 2005 and Kernel Crash Dumps

Want to get the most out of OpenSUSE 10? Check out Jem's article on The Hacking OpenSUSE

Time for Linux on the Desktop? Read about how Novell Launches the Better Desktop Initiative

The Gecko reaches 10, check out SUSE 10

Nice article about how we're eating our own dog food, er, drinking our own champagne, quaffing our own beer, whatever, just read - Inside the Novell Linux Migration

Linux Professional Institute offers reduced pricing on Certification Exams at the LinuxWorld Utrecht, Netherlands

It's an entire article describing how Office blunders caused by computer jargon.

OMFG, they're describing MY PARENTS!!!

This is tragic, how bad does it SUCK to have the Treo be based on Winbloze Mobile.

So go take a look already at the First official photos of the Treo 700w

Hmm, Chris Stone crawls back into the light, sort of - Former Novell exec's firm supports SUSE Linux, rebrands

Linux LDAP authentication

45 Minutes to a Linux Terminal Server

openSUSE Project "Off to a Good Start," Says Novel

ISP Server Setup - OpenSUSE 10 RC 1

Boy, isn't this a true statement...

Almost Before We Spoke, We Swore - New York Times

Create a Picture Gallery for the Internet using Gwenview

KRandRTray: Quick Access to Desktop Configuration

Create and Use Persistent VNC Sessions

Turbocharge an SSH Connection with screen

And now, without further ado: the Google PC

John Terpstra weighs in on What's ahead for Samba-3, Samba-4 and (does some) FUD-fighting