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