2nd
July
Posted on July 2nd, 2009 at 6:09 am
You know a controversy is a big one when none other than RMS weighs in with his opinion, and sure enough, that’s what happened in the Mono debate late last week. “Debian’s decision to include Mono in the default installation, for the sake of Tomboy which is an application written in C#, leads the community in a risky direction,” RMS wrote on the Free Software Foundation’s site. Of course, rather than settling the debate, Stallman’s proclamation only fanned the flames higher, resulting in a raging inferno.
And this is the best front man we can find? Good old Richard spends more time saying what is wrong as opposed to smoothing the bumps he really gets to be a old record, Baldy
Is Software Installation on Linux ‘Broken’?
Posted in Linux
2nd
July
Posted on July 2nd, 2009 at 6:06 am
As the Debian project releases a second update of its Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (”Lenny”) distribution, a controversy has broken out over the next version, “Squeeze.” GNU guru Richard Stallman has warned that by including a Mono-based note-taking application called Tomboy, Debian runs the risk of Microsoft litigation over C# patents.
Yikes of all people Debian for goodness sake. But hey if it works without the problems I say let it roll. Baldy
Debian plans draw sharp warning from GNU guru
Posted in General
1st
July
Posted on July 1st, 2009 at 6:53 am
Conficker is one nasty Virus! It is able to spread on the LAN, infect other machines, and even auto-update itself! Learn how scan your network using the open-source nmap tool, and identify machines which are possible infected with Conficker
Hey it is late but it works just fine and great to show those at the top you do know what you are doing with all that money they pay you. LOL Baldy
Scanning your LAN for conficker using nmap
Posted in Security
11th
June
Posted on June 11th, 2009 at 6:04 am
Linus Torvalds (pictured) announced Linux kernel 2.6.30, adding several new filesystems, including the NILFS2 log-structured filesystem. Linux 2.6.30 enhancements include a local caching layer for NFS data, the RDS server cluster communications protocol, the Tomoyo security module, and support for LZMA and BZIP2 compression algorithms.
Some long awaited items and yes as Linus has said this brings linux into a whole new arena, Baldy
Linux 2.6.30 gets new filesystems
Posted in Linux
24th
May
Posted on May 24th, 2009 at 6:55 am
With all the baseball,Indy Race,Stock Car race, not to mention the parades and a great 3 day holiday. Don’t let the idea of this holiday slip past you. This is the weekend to stop and say a prayer for those who have given the utmost sacrifice in order for us to enjoy our freedoms, Their lives! Please enjoy yourselves this weekend but stop for just a minute and thank those in past present and future conflicts and the job they have done, and what they have given for us. All I can say is thank you Ladies and Men.
Baldy
Posted in Personal
7th
May
Posted on May 7th, 2009 at 5:33 am
Okay this area is as usual getting a good soaking this year and for the first time in a long time this was the result of one of the many storms that have gone through here in the last month.
Posted in Personal
7th
May
Posted on May 7th, 2009 at 5:30 am
Okay it is not techy but hey they are really nummy. For those who have no idea what these are, they are morel mushrooms and the best things to eat this side of … err never mind.
Posted in Personal
2nd
May
Posted on May 2nd, 2009 at 6:29 am
I’ve been writing Linux guidebooks for some time, and it’s fair to say that most people who buy my books are Windows users looking to make the leap to Linux (or perhaps just wondering what the fuss is about).
Because of this, I’ve heard a lot of excuses why people quit Linux, and return to Windows. I’m happy to say that the excuses are getting far less common nowadays, compared to 2003, when I wrote my first book. But I still hear ‘em.
I installed Linux but some element of my hardware didn’t work!
That’s incredible because I installed Windows the other day and had the exact same experience! My graphics card didn’t work, and wifi didn’t either.
Might this just be the way PCs are?
But do you know what I did? I fixed everything. Maybe I’m lucky to be clever enough to do so, but if I wasn’t, I could easily ask around for solutions. I know there are smart people out there who are willing to help.
I tried Linux but I had to type commands!
OMG!!! Really?
But seriously. So what? Are you scared of the keyboard?
Read full story.
Top 7 Reasons People Quit Linux
Posted in Linux
1st
May
Posted on May 1st, 2009 at 6:51 am
Sometimes Firefox can become a real memory hog, especially if you keep it running for hours and have many tabs opened. In order to make Firefox a little more responsive and save some RAM memory, here are three tweaks I bumped into over time. Notice that most of these tips only free up some memory at the expense of (usually) loading speed for web pages. You won’t make Firefox 10 times faster, but you will surely make it use less RAM.
Yes Raven this is for you ma’am, Baldy
3 Tweaks to Speed Up Firefox and Free Some Memory
Posted in Software
