So while BunBun took his nap and the wife took to exercising, I tuned in to TWiT.TV Live and watched Leo Laporte’s last hour or so of the KFI radio show that is done on weekends. Leo has hooked up a webcam and broadcasts a stream via Stickam to all interested parties. During [...]
That’s a loss for Microsoft - OSS Ramblings
Congratulations to Tony, who has succeeded in migrating his company off of Microsoft Exchange an onto an open source replacement. Check out his blog to see how it was pulled off.
Granted, they probably aren’t using shared calendaring much - but still, an interesting project for any small [...]
So finally, it looks like the Evolution team is sitting up and paying attention about their buggy code. Evolution 2.10.1 on Feisty Fawn actually works without issue so far. It’s laggy, but it works even against our monster of a mail system. I’m impressed.
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GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative
So this was GNOME’s big announcement today. I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this. I suppose that if GNOME is getting the industry behind their desktop initiative enough to get some wider open source adoption, that’s a good thing. However, I have mixed feelings whenever I [...]
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The hot post today that has the blogosphere churning is this essay by Paul Graham entitled “Microsoft is Dead.”
I like the way the author of this post has just suddenly realized that Microsoft’s business model is in trouble. I had an epiphany much like this while I was in the very den of the [...]
There is so… SO much wrong with this.
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So, just as soon as I spread my wings on Ubuntu one more time, it smacks me down like the bitch I am. For some odd reason, directories just began to disappear from the disks. Disappear! Can you believe that? I first noticed it when network mounts weren’t coming back and [...]
Okie, I took the plunge and threw Beryl onto Ubuntu… along with all the other goodies.
Now that is some bad-ass 3D desktop goodness. Well worth the effort.
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Okie, well, Kubuntu won’t load on my system. It seems to load successfully, but then won’t reboot. Going back to what I know - regular old Ubuntu.
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Okie, I’m going to drop an F-bomb here. It’s fucking cold outside. Fucking. Cold.
I have also realized that among my many skills as a server engineer/architect/administrator/whatever you call it in your company, I am NOT a very good cabler. I suck at it.
It’s stupid when it’s warmer in your data center than outside.
Did I mention [...]