A Wikipedia antidote – and an IBM joke
Demonstrating that I have a sense of humour (and I'm sure most of my colleagues do, too), I'm going to share this link to the Uncyclopedia's page about IBM. I know that Wikipedia has been getting a lot...
View ArticleFedora or SuSE
I went through the Linux Distribution Chooser test. Apparently I'm either a Fedora or a SuSE man – not a surprise since my Linux history started about 8 years ago flipping between SuSE and Redhat, and...
View ArticleThe end of SWT? Mustang kicks back
One of the big annoyances I always had with Java was how bad rich client / desktop applications looked. They can be ugly, and even with Swing, the look and feel often never quite matched the native...
View ArticleFlickr eyecandy
So you've been bitten by the Flickr bug. You update your photostream regularly. Wouldn't it be great if your screensaver could show you your pictures, your favourites, those of your contacts, or others...
View ArticleFedora Core 5 and nVidia drivers
As of now, to get nVidia drivers working on FC5, you have to jump through hoops. This has partly to do with the FC5 kernel and partly to do with the driver…. [Via Eudyptula minor] Well, that puts off...
View ArticleRedHat acquires JBoss
A few months ago, I blogged a bit about Java, Application Servers and RedHat. Today, RedHat announced that they are acquiring JBoss. I’m stunned – where did that come from?! Last I’d heard, they were...
View ArticleRound-up of RedHat+JBoss analysis
Some interesting thoughts on the RedHat and JBoss combination: Redmonk’s analysis of the acquisition, including thoughts on the implications for IBM. A tidbit with more thoughts on WebSphere, linking...
View ArticleStay with Fedora, or wait for Vista?
OK, so the post title is a bit tongue-in-cheek. Last weekend I downloaded the DVD ISO of Fedora Core 5. When I have time, I really need to update my home workstation – I’m hoping that the upgrade will...
View ArticleSecond Life: Linux, and scripting
I just discovered that there’s a dedicated blog for Second Life on Linux. Between 2 laptops and a workstation, I guess I only spend about a third of my time in SL on Linux, but it is good to know …...
View ArticleGoogle Earth for Linux
I’ve tried to run Google Earth under Wine on Linux once or twice, but I’ve always had problems with fonts and screen redrawing. Now, the latest version of Google Earth is available with a Linux...
View ArticleNotes for Linux
Mosey on over to Ed Brill’s blog for some interesting news – Lotus Notes for Linux.
View ArticleThe need for consistency in UIs
Two interesting discussions of user interface issues in recent or soon-to-be-released Microsoft products. Alan Lepofsky has written about some aspects of the Outlook 2007 user experience. Paul Thurrott...
View ArticleNew RawStudio
An open source competitor to Lightroom is RawStudio, which just hit version 0.4… nothing on the news page at the time of writing, but the tarball is available. If you are a Linux user, take a look....
View ArticleFedora Core 6 round-up
I set my home workstation downloading the FC6 DVD ISO yesterday morning. I have to say that I never bothered going back to check that it came down successfully. Looking forward to an opportunity to get...
View ArticlePaperweight / Linux box?
I attempted to upgrade my main workstation to Fedora Core 6 this weekend. The upgrade itself went smoothly enough – I think. The new packages appear to be installed… There’s just the small matter of...
View ArticleThank goodness for the command line
I’m trying to sort out some letters – trying to beat the Christmas posting dates (which we’ve failed to do, due to our holiday). Unfortunately my Linux box is still dead, since I’ve not had time to...
View ArticleLinux box progress
Back in November, I made a hopelessly failed attempt to upgrade my main Linux workstation from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 6. This is a machine that I built myself – 2GHz AMD64 CPU, dual 160Gb SATA...
View ArticleFedora 9 on a USB stick
Although you’ll most commonly hear me waxing lyrical about OS X these days, I’m a long-time Linux user. I’ve been running various flavours of Linux at home since Redhat 5.0 days. Why Redhat and Fedora?...
View ArticleToday, I (hope I) helped people
Today, I… built an OS X Universal binary attended a training course nearly deleted myself from the interwebs (long story) helped colleagues get their BlackBerries configured talked to people about...
View ArticleOS X mosquitto “bites”…
In my post last week about the new MQTT support coming to WebSphere MQ I very briefly mentioned that there are some third-party tools that already implement MQTT. One of those I pointed to is the very...
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