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- SolutionBase: Seek Enlightenment for an easy-to-use Linux GUI
- Enlightenmenthas been my preferred gui since I first tried it, about 8 years ago :)For some odd reason, the bug in that first version startup sequence tickled my funny bone rather than irritated me. [ like the bug in GNOME's startup at that time did]I liked having my system tell...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Jaqui, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-10-13
- Vista, is it all it's cracked up tp be?
- Just saw this in a community forum on another site, in a discussion about what os people use[pre]posted:26 Sep 2007 16:27 We have a Vista Computer in the company and no body use it.I use it a few days and I never touch it again, I think it will be...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, UNIX, Jaqui, Linux, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Ubuntu
- Discussion threads 2007-09-26
- enlightenment does install on 64bit linux
- either fc6 has misconfigured it, or you have a damaged rpm for it from fc6.there is a small issue with the theming, backgrounds aren't displaying correctly, but it's in and working.and the theme issues could easily be a mistake in my own configure options, so I can't say for sure...
- Tags: Jaqui
- Discussion threads 2007-02-21
- Linux- types, flavours, behaviours
- On TR we have SMEs that understand Linux and Free BSD in ways that the uninitiated do not. And I think that those of us who want to learn a Linux have different objectives as well.I propose this- that those of us that are admitted newbies come to the...
- Tags: apotheon, BSD, distro, hal, jaqui, Linux, off-topic, solutions, TiggerTwo, unix, we are all in thi
- Discussion threads 2007-02-19
- Quantum Computing, is it a Pipe Dream?
- Not according to D-wave systems in Burnaby British Columbia, Canada.They have a free webcast scheduled for February 13 of a demonstration of their quantum cpu.[quote]D-Wave Systems, a hardware developer headed by 34-year-old theoretical physicist Geordie Rose, has issued an open invitation to all technophiles to become "an eye witness to...
- Tags: Jaqui, windows, linux, hardware, programming, technology, news, D-Wave Systems, Quantum Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-02-09
- Can Linux Desktops Live in an Active Directory World?
- Since Palmetto has been fighting with this exact issue, I did a search and found the following article:http://reverendted.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/linux-goes-mad/To summarize, Novell has included their own code into the version of SAMBA that they ship with their Suse Enterprise Desktop that enables a linux desktop to integrate with an Active directory domain.unless...
- Tags: SuSE, Samba, distro, Jaqui, tagging sucks, windows, it management, linux, networking, advertisement, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, desktop
- Discussion threads 2007-01-31
- Major retailer suffers data breach
- FSF's LSB...The Free Software Foundation's Linux Standards Base is not a BASE standard as they claim.they went far beyond a base standard when they started picking specific applications that are "required" for compliancy.[ who needs RPM if you have dpkg, or portage? both of which are far more capable than...
- Tags: PayPal, Jaqui
- Discussion threads 2007-01-23
- EU Commission Study Finds You'll Save Money Switching to FOSS
- http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070112025016466The article itself isn't very informative, but the report is quite interesting. all 289 pages of it.:Dediting to add:The url for the PDF format EU report:http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ict/studies/publications.htm
- Tags: F/OSS, it management, Jaqui, linux, software
- Discussion threads 2007-01-12
- Source Mage?
- I decided to scan the list of distros on distrowatch..Sourcemage gnu-linux?! ~blink~WTF?has anyone else never heard of this one?http://www.sourcemage.org/they are trying to get a distro together, based on what distro I have yet to figure out.They don't use standard names for positions within the team... they call themselves "Mages"I'm not...
- Tags: distro, Jaqui, linux, Mage, tagging sucks
- Discussion threads 2007-01-06
- New Hardware
- Since I had a system die on me, I went out and bought a new system.I'll be busy over the next little while building Linux From Scratch on it.The hardware list, from a Mandriva installation to see what devices might be problematical is fairly lo
- Tags: Connection Bus, Device ID, FPU, hardware, Jaqui, linux, off-topic, PCI, programming, tagging sucks, Vendor ID
- Discussion threads 2007-01-02
- Are we irresponsible in reporting new threats? Are we just wasting space/time?
- reposting my comment from the original discussionyes, be more responsible.As I'm sure you know from reading a number of my comments, I follow a lot of the same sources you do for Security Issues, I just think you may need to re evaluate your cri
- Tags: security update, programming, networking, it management, career, security, software, windows, Jaqui, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, flaw, network
- Discussion threads 2006-12-18
- picking a technology to learn
- Twice yesterday I saw discussions / questions here abould learning new technologies.for one, the persons information given in the post suggested that the tech really would not benefit anyone, including the proposed business startup.[ linux and vi
- Tags: e-mail, programming, networking, hardware, linux, it management, career, security, software, windows, Jaqui, windows app, target platform, tagging sucks, window
- Discussion threads 2006-12-13
- DHCP client service in Linux
- Did you know you don't need a DHCP client?you can use the kernel autoconfiguration to setup your network working, just add ip=dhcp.Are there any particular kernel modules needed for that?Nope, you can use the netboot hint to see all the options required http://documents.jg555.com/netbootJim Gifford is the person I have to...
- Tags: DHCP, mandatory tagging sucks, linux, networking, software, Jaqui
- Discussion threads 2006-12-05
- Which Linux Distribution Version?
- I regularly see people asking for version of software that works with Red Hat Linux 9.My normal reply: the version on the cdroms for the antiquated version of Red Hat you have. RHL9 is roughly equivalent to using windows 3.1.1, it's not getting sec
- Tags: web hostng, linux, software, security, O/S, new hardware, Jaqui, Red Hat Inc., kernel, hardware, Web hosting, RHL 9
- Discussion threads 2006-11-22
- Benchmarking and tuning Apache servers
- Tuning?Is it really needed?You make an excellent arguement for it, but I have seen sites with literally thousands of connections running on minimal hardware that didn't get brought down as you suggest would happen.I've seen them get slowed down by heavy traffic, but not crashed.It is actually far more efective...
- Tags: Apache Software Foundation, Apache Web server, benchmarking, Jaqui, linux, networking, server, software
- Discussion threads 2006-10-24
- Software Code Readability
- I'm sure most software developers have heard of the obfusticated c contest.where you try to write extremely bad code.how about this though.have you heard about the UNDERHANDED C contest?where you must write readable code, that will not work right except for on the os you picked it to.the cause of...
- Tags: Jaqui
- Discussion threads 2006-10-23
- New Old School Window Management
- what do ya knowyou actually came up with a posting I can't rip ya for.;)enlightenment, it's only for those who have been enlightened. windows wankers are out of luck.gnome knobs get pooched.:Dand kde, might as well be winders.most of the window environments try to duplicate either winders or macos, the...
- Tags: command line, GUI, Jaqui, linux, open source report, window
- Discussion threads 2006-10-17
- The magic of Ubuntu Linux
- bahhh!! bloatware almost as bad a rad het's crapuse a real distro, linux from scratch.get rid of the pre packaged microsnot style distros and get back to real linux.I actually would never use any of the *buntu variants because they broke *x security and bloated the os with useless crap.why...
- Tags: distro, Jaqui, Linux, open source report, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Linux
- Discussion threads 2006-10-17
- exim woes..
- what could cause exim to bog down and only accept 300 to 509 emails in an hour?I've spent the last 4 hours trying to get it to accept the 14,000 that are queued waiting for it to work.possibly av, spam checking?I have had a situation in the pa
- Tags: Jaqui, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2006-10-17
- KVM out of box support for Linux
- I have just bought a Startech SV411k KVM switch and it functions perfectly out of the box with linux.[ so far as I have seen yet ]the keyboard and mouse jacks are both ps2video is svgathe switching is a button on the box or through the keyboard*but since this is...
- Tags: Linux, hardware, mandatory tagging sucks, kvm, out of box, keyboard, Jaqui, Linksys SVIEW04, USB
- Discussion threads 2006-08-03
