Posts Tagged ‘ Linux ’

Funny Linux commercials

It’s been about three years since that famous Linux commerical aired during the Superbowl. It still gives me chills… Even so, found some more cute ones on YouTube. Three by Novell mimicking the Mac vs. PC ads from the television. Another by Novell that’s a little more cutesy… Great one by someone who I can’t [ READ MORE ]

Saving myself lots of bandwidth with apt-proxy

I have at least 3 machines running Debian on my network at any given time and I’m using Debian testing (currently Lenny) because it’s so close to being stable anyway. Still, there are plenty of updates on a regular basis and keeping my machines up to date is a rather big drain on my network [ READ MORE ]

Why must it be so hard to cluster?

In the past, I’ve gotten pretty upset by how difficult it is to take advantage of multiple computers on a network for general tasks. In this age of advanced Linux software, I’m still shocked at how hard it is to cluster machines. Let’s say I have three or so machines on my local network. If [ READ MORE ]

Palm should go Android

Palm would benefit from adopting Android for so many reasons! Stop funneling profits to Microsoft Get enthusiastic Android developers from the community Support free software and change the business model enough to ensure future solidity. How long before someone does a *really* good clone of HotSync? Why not just move to an open standard like [ READ MORE ]

Linux boots even faster!

I have always been a super-huge fan of Linux for it’s quick and elegant startup. Ok, so various versions of init aren’t exactly the most elegant things but projects like upstart enrich the landscape all the same. Anyway, I got wind of efforts to make Linux boot faster by way of a Slashdot post or [ READ MORE ]

One-time passwords for SSH and more

Great post by Pablo Lorenzzoni about using one-time passwords for SSH logins (and more through PAM)[ READ MORE ]

Switch to Linux, make it easier for admins

Great article about twenty reasons to switch to Linux. Ten tips to make Linux administration easier[ READ MORE ]

Making things happen with the JOLIE programming language

I caught this really interesting interview over at the KDE news site which talks about a programming language called JOLIE which is used for what seems to be called service-oriented computing. Basically, it seems the admirable aim is to use JOLIE to increase compatibility by replacing inter-application frameworks like DCOP, DCOM and D-Bus. From the [ READ MORE ]

Wait, so Firefox in Qt is not just a dream?

Well, it would seem that my tiny-little-private dream is not just a fantasy! It looks like Nokia is helping to port Firefox to Qt instead of GTK+, which I personally believe to be butt-ugly in most instances. This is most likely because I’m a proud KDE user… IMHO, Qt is a better technical platform but [ READ MORE ]

A $200 tablet?

A recent blog post on TechCrunch discusses their plans to try for the construction of a $200 tablet for light browsing with a modified Firefox 3 (in a special kiosk mode) and VOIP thanks to Skype. Now, we’ve heard rumblings of low-cost, touch-based computing devices before. Remember concept stuff from the XO-2 which was supposed [ READ MORE ]

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Jonathan E. Magen is a passionate developer who loves cooking and writing clean code. Star Trek is cool, too. Also, books. Many things are actually really great and Jonathan likes them as well.

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