2006-08-31

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?

2006-08-30

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

2006-08-29

Flash Clocks # 2

Data Center Guys - Free Flash Clocks

Capricorn releases a 120TB storage system

2006-08-28

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

2006-08-27

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...

2006-08-26

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

2006-08-25

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

2006-08-23

Novell: Linux desktop is ready

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

2006-08-22

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

2006-08-21

Department of Defense study urges open source adoption

2006-08-20

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.

2006-08-19

Mostly Harmless: Democracy Player on SuSE 10.0

Mplayer RPM's for several RPM-based distros

2006-08-18

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

2006-08-17

Red Hat a no-show at LinuxWorld

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

2006-08-16

Linux In The Channel Study

2006-08-12

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

SUSE Linux Enterprise Technical Library

2006-08-11

Simplify data extraction using Linux text utilities

2006-08-09

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!

2006-08-08

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...

2006-08-05

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

2006-08-04

Desktop Linux breakthrough: Lenovo preloads SUSE on ThinkPad

Black Hat Takes Vista to Task and P0wns it completely.

2006-08-03

Nuremberg hopes to create 'Linux Valley'

2006-08-02

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

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

2006-08-01

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