[Personal Updates]
Graduation Weekend! The Wife is graduating from medical school this weekend. Next weekend we are moving to Latrobe. In about a month the Wife will be starting residency. In two months we are expecting our first child…a lot going on!
[Work Updates]
After we move I will be staying with the same company and […]
It has been a while since I last posted anything here. I have been very busy recently both at work and at home.
[Personal Updates]
A lot is going on right now at home. The wife is about ready to graduate from medical school. It seems hard to believe that we have been living […]
Xgl on OpenSuSE was a nightmare, Xgl on Ubuntu was cool…Xgl on Kororaa was simply amazing!
Kororaa is a LiveCD based on Gentoo which showcases Xgl. On Ubuntu while using Xgl the system was really slow. Moving windows around in “wobbly” mode was jerky. On Kororaa everything has been running smoothly, and very […]
I recently installed the latest Ubuntu Dapper release (6.04 Alpha 4). The first thing I did was use the following instructions to install the new Xgl/Compiz packages.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XglHowto
Earlier in the week I also installed OpenSuSE 10.1 beta 4 and surprisingly getting Xgl/Compiz to work on Ubuntu was a thousand times easier than trying to get […]
What can I say…LTSP is cool! I have had a plan in the works for a while to implement LTSP at work for a key group of users. Over the last couple of weeks we have been expirementing with various distributions and setups to see which would best server our purpose and give us the […]
I was interested to see this Information Technology Bulletin from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Office for Information Technology. The bulletin lays out the Commonwealth’s policy regarding a standard for which Linux servers can be used within the State government.
This does not specify that they are standardizing on Linux, it simply states that as far as […]
There has been a lot of chatter across the net lately about Novell showing off its Novell Linux Desktop 10 which is due out later this year. After watching the videos and viewing the screenshots I must admit I have mixed emotions.
The screenshots are just mockups but after watcing the videos they seem to be […]
It’s been a while since I made a post on the ol’ blog and there has been a lot I have wanted to say so I will try to quickly do a little catch up post. So without further ado, and in reverse chronological order…
[Netbeans 5.0]
I just noticed that Netbeans 5.0 final has been […]
Xen is one of the projects I have been keeping my eye on with some interest. Xen is a virtual machine monitor, or hypervisor, developed by the University of Cambridge, UK. Xen is similar to, but not exactly the same as, VMware.
The other day I downloaded the Xen 3.0 Demo […]
While I was re-installing Windows on a computer for a friend I read an article at xyzcomputing.com entitled “Desktop Linux’s Hardware Woes”. The following sentence from the very first paragraph made me pause.
“Every day Linux users encounter driver and compatibility issues which Windows users have not had to deal with for […]