http://www.linuxreview.net/blog The Blog of Brad Chamberlin Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:26:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On Thursday I installed the latest Ubuntu release (7.10) on my Dell 700m laptop.  Prior that it was running an older Ubuntu release (6.10) up until about two weeks ago when, in anticipation of the new release, I backed up my data and started experimenting with other distributions.  This has ... http://www.linuxreview.net/blog/2007/10/22/78 Since I started blogging I have used many tools to create and publish blog posts.  I have blogged from Writely (now Google Docs), Zoho Writer, Flock, Sun's Weblog Publisher for StarOffice/OpenOffice.org, and OOoBlogger.  Several days ago I discovered a Firefox plugin called ScribeFire and used it to create my ... http://www.linuxreview.net/blog/2007/08/19/76 I just read on David Coldrick's blog that Sun is proposing to dual license Netbeans under both the CDDL and GPLv2 licenses.   He links to this FAQ page on the the Netbeans site.  This is great news for Linux users, such as myself, as this will give distributors the ability ... http://www.linuxreview.net/blog/2007/08/17/75 I just purchased one of the first Dell's pre-installed with Ubuntu Linux. I had several motives for doing so. The first, and primary, reason for the new computer was that my current work PC here at home has been giving me numerous hardware issues causing the computer to ... http://www.linuxreview.net/blog/2007/05/24/74 I have found it absolutely amazing that Microsoft and all it's uber-fan-boys have found the Apple “I'm a Mac, I'm a PC” ads so objectionable. People either seem to love them or hate them, hell, Bill Gates doesn't even “get” them. Personally I find most, if not ... http://www.linuxreview.net/blog/2007/02/10/73 A while ago I became interested in blogging from OpenOffice.org when Sun released its “Sun Weblog Publisher” several months ago. Weblog Publisher is a, non-free, plugin for StarOffice/OpenOffice.org. Once I saw the announcement I proceeded directly to the Sun website to purchase the plugin. At only $9.95 I thought it ... http://www.linuxreview.net/blog/2007/01/20/72 ...well, a little more than a weekend. The same weekend that I experimented with Vista I also started experimenting with Xen. I had briefly experimented with Xen in the past but that was mostly with the Xen LiveCD available at the XenSource website. [SLES 10] To start off I figured ... http://www.linuxreview.net/blog/2006/10/04/69 A while ago I registered to download the RC versions of Windows Vista. Recently Microsoft released RC1 of Vista and I received an email with a product-key and a link to download the ISO. So why would a Linux/UNIX/Mac guy want to bother with such a thing? ... http://www.linuxreview.net/blog/2006/09/19/68 Finally, with recent release of Sun's JDK 5.0 Update 8 I can run Netbeans on my systems running Xgl!!!  It was such a pain having to open Netbeans in a seperate Xnest window to do any development (or use one of my none-Xgl systems, hooray for the Mac!). [Upstart] It appears that ... http://www.linuxreview.net/blog/2006/08/27/67 Over the weekend I saw a link on Digg pointing to "Multi-Touch Interaction Research". Rather than interacting with a touch screen with a single pointer they are working on interfaces that allow you to manipulate objects on the screen with more than one finger/pointer at a time. After watchcing ... http://www.linuxreview.net/blog/2006/08/07/65