LWN recently posted a brief article on the GNOME Foundation's plea for support to help it get through a difficult year. Some of the comments on that news questioned the role of the foundation and its
Another important bounty quota has been reached in the Power2People website, and this time the result comes from a common effort of the whole Amiga/Morphos/AROS Community. The result of this bounty be
Installing any OS can still sometimes be a tedious task and one that scares the wits out of the average computer user. And, it’s just more fun to buy a computer with Linux already on it and not have t
Microsoft finally agreed to implement ODF support in Microsoft Office, but they didn't do it quite right, hurting both Microsoft and the ODF specification.
Regnum Online, a Massively Multi-player Online Role Playing Game that has a native Linux client offered by its developers (NGD Studios), has received a major overhaul. Regnum Online is one of the very
Michelle Minkin, a friend of this effort and an all-around nice lady; suggested that we auction off the opportunity to destroy these computers. We were almost ready to start soliciting the community f
Until September 20, 2007, nobody had ever sued anybody for violating the General Public License (GPL) — not a single company, project, or individual developer in the license's then-eighteen
I'll keep this quick. I followed the advice of Nathan from OpenBSD101 and replaced my upgraded OpenBSD 4.5 installation with an entirely new, reinstalled system. That took all of 10 minutes. I followe
I love to poke fun at tech vendors who continually boast of their innovation, when in fact they're scared to death of real innovation, if they could even recognize it. Today I poke fun at the anti-mal
Ever mishap with your mouse crusing through your desktop click, rub, stumble and chatter across the dock whilst the click persists to holding on to the DOCKED app ICON on the way of your fumbling mishap and BAM! Off goes your DOCK app...
Searchme.com has been around for a while, "The Great Kate Delaney" actually called to tell me about the tool as she interviewed the CEO. I remember clearly as my browser rendered the flash heavy homepage Kate's excitement in her voice...
Local business seems always seems to have issues with the Internet. How to use it? How to market with it? How to apply it to their business? The Internet's capabilities are vast and the opportunities are enormous.
First off, ooVoo is not just video email, its video conferencing, contact manager and its VOIP. You can call iland lines, nationaly and internationaly.
Open source is about shaking your own tree and sharing your gifts with other. By sharing your talents, thoughts and efforts the effect on the whole is better for the whole. Individually we benefit 10 fold for anyone of that gives a little effort.
From time to time, my clients end me RAR files and I have to UNRAR the file.I use STUFF Expander but recently found The Unarchiver tool for OSX which does a nice job. Nothing exciting for an archinver just awareness of the tool &nb
I have installed POP GMAIL on a host of email clients from Thunderbird to Outlook Express and Eudora. Further, in the past year I have assisted iPhone owners and Apple Mail clients with Google's IMAP implementation.
It's over and out for CODEC and Opensource. With the Micael Niedermayer's video codec coined SNOW the technology is supported, available and ready for use.
You ever need to know what the hidden files are in a certain directory? Usually, going to the terminal one could easily view and edit the hidden files, ie: .htacess. However, what if you wanted to grab a directory and move it to an FTP client
Netgear launched an OpenRouter plain white NetGear-ish like router.1 The idea is simple, the user has an option to implement firmware applications. The MyOpenRouter site kicked this off and provides access to the firmware applications. DD-WR
Well the delivery is Wireless Broadband for free!! No Taxes? No Cost? What's the catch, well no catch.....Really, the FCC wants to offer you, John P. Public free wireless internet. Offering to auction off the available wir
From time to time browsers and servers get a little confused and cookies become out of sorts leaving the user logging into a website but not really getting the user to the expected pages.
You figure in 2008 a simple import of a CSV file would not be difficult for Microsoft. Well, think again. I do use apple mail for some of my email addresses, but for work, I gave up fighting the battle and just use Entourage.
I had to install, fresh, Ruby On Rails this evening. I ran into a little road bump when issuing sudo gem install mysql on OS X.The script prints out to the terminal:! sudo gem install mysqlSelect which gem to install for your platform (i68
An open source tool. http://yourli.st is a a simple open source based tool that allows one to create on the fly an email reminder from any browser on the net.
I was working whilst watching a DVD and attempted to capture a BROWSER Windows via OSX's key sequence screen capture. I had the distinct pleasure of OSX's Denial of a Screen Capture Whilst the DVDPlayer was running.