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