Entries tagged with 'Linux'

Links of interest for 2 Sep 2009 - 24 Sep 2009:

IBM Throws Out Microsoft Office - Welcome to the party IBM. Sun did this years ago. 99% of people don't use half the functionality in MS Office anyway.
Linus calls Linux ‘bloated and huge’ - … and it's suffered on average a 2% decrease in performance [...]

Links of interest for 20 Jul 2009 - 15 Aug 2009:

HTML5 Canvas and Audio Experiment - This is a brilliant display of some of the cool things you can do in HTML5 (Requires a browser that supports HTML5 like Firefox 3.5)
How To Hijack ‘Every iPhone In The World’ - Oooops. Just as well I [...]

I work with a couple of guys who are quite stuck in their ways and are quite reliant on old tools, one of which is xclipboard(1).
Unfortunately, Gnome comes with it’s own clipboard manager, so when you try to run xclipboard, you get the following:
$ xclipboard
Error: another clipboard is already running
$
Of course, ps(1M) will show no [...]

Whilst I’m primarily a Solaris/OpenSolaris man, I do like to keep myself in touch with the Linux world - partly out of necessity and partly out of curiosity. I run Ubuntu (sticking with my African roots and because it’s the best distro I’ve used) on my very very very old laptop (need) and also within [...]

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If you’re visiting after the event, it’s Friday 13 February 2009 @ 23:31:30 GMT (aka UCT).

Links of interest for 14 Nov 2008 - 1 Dec 2008:

Replacing high-end Unix with enterprise Linux? Not so fast - It's nice to see some people are actually looking at the merits of Solaris 10 and it's Containers (aka zones with provisioning) in comparison to a Linux/VMware alternative.
Ubuntu vs. OpenSolaris vs. FreeBSD Benchmarks - Interesting [...]

As you will have no doubt heard today, Adobe are making available a 64-bit version of the Flash Player for Linux to those who want to be on the cutting edge (it’s still alpha).
When I heard this, I couldn’t help but ask myself “Why? Why on earth do you need a 64-bit Flash player?”. [...]

Links of interest for 14 Oct 2008 - 1 Nov 2008:

Multicore Bollocks - Hmmm, for someone who's head of Microsoft Research in Cambridge, he certainly talks a load of old cobblers about multicore CPUs.
Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009 - Sounds like there will be more need for ZFS then, that's why Sun are [...]

Links of interest for 10 Apr 2008 - 29 Apr 2008:

easySMF at OpenSolaris.org - Cool. A web based tool for easy SMF manifest creation. Simply enter the various bits of information, generate the XML file and import it into SMF. Much quicker and easier than writing it all out by hand.
Sun: Trying [...]

Links of interest for 21 Mar 2008 - 25 Mar 2008:

Paper Enigma Machine - What a brilliant idea, and a great teaching tool too.
Sun turns to lasers to speed up computer chips - Now this would be brilliant if Sun research proves to be a success. Sun's continually proving it is light years (excuse [...]