I don’t know if all of you out there have been following the technology scene lately, but there is a holy trinity of operating system releases going on. Apple released the most recent version of OSX, 10.6, code named Snow Leopard in late August. Microsoft is set to release Windows 7, following the still born [...]
An 8 minute clip on how to use Google Wave. I especially like the live auto-translator robot!
One of the topics that I love to talk about is ‘freedom.’ Freedom can mean many different things, but most people equate freedom to the ability to do whatever you want (within reason of course.) I tend to link freedom with the free software movement, where one has access to the source code of the [...]
I was trying to decide on what the most basic reason should be for an SMB to adopt cloud computing. Cost savings is always good, but you can shave costs other ways as well, and sometimes it may actually come out slightly more expensive to go into the cloud. Being able to start small and [...]
So I happened upon some interesting information from a company called Chitika, who tracks search engine stats. Their headline “Chitika Study: Open Source Users Love Google, Hate Microsoft” is telling. Now I do not find that surprising at all considering Google is a MAJOR backer of open source projects or initiatives, but it was cool [...]
I was reading an interesting article that dealt with the future of computing. In it, one sentence modified and old agage and said “recession is the mother of invention.” That inspired me to write a post that expanded on that thought and put a little perspective on it. Don’t cast stones when I say this, [...]
Over the years, the heavy reliance on computers and servers has increased exponentially. With that reliance comes an increase in the overall number of machines in service. The server side of the business has ballooned recently to the point where businesses are faced with concerns such as electricity consumption, cooling and space constraints. Although the [...]
Unlike the author of the original article, I AM a fan of Ubuntu and Linux, and I found the post pretty interesting. One small but great part of the Linux world is GUI (theme) customization. Overall customization is huge, but theming is often overlooked as nice but not necessary.
I happen to love the dark themes [...]
If you head over to the Canonical blog at http://blog.canonical.com/?p=110, you can read about a recent survey by Redmonk analyst group that illustrates the extent to which Ubuntu server has penetrated the enterprise server market. Although to most of us Ubuntu users out there, it is no surprise that Ubuntu server is all over the [...]
