Title: Technology & Life Integration: Fiction or Future

It looks like a divide and conqueror plan to me

Published on Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:10:54 GMT

Going through my Saturday morning news articles I came across a title guaranteed to catch my eye. It is an article on Yahoo news titled "Microsoft to Drop Linux, Unix Versions of Enterprise Search". Naturally I had to read this article to understand what it was all about. As I read through the disheartening words it began to appear to me what microsoft is doing. Being a large a read more..

Sigh! A simple USB stick causes so many problems.

Published on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:49:21 GMT

This is going to be a rant against windows. If you don't like hearing negative things about windows then don't read this. Seriously, don't read this. On the other hand, if you like hearing about windows problems then please continue :) So many times there are people who waffle on about how windows just works. How everything is all plug and play and automatic. Us Linux people like to call it plug and pray :) In this particular case it was trying to get windows to recognize a simple little King read more..

Linux, the chicken and the egg.

Published on Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:24:03 GMT

This is the question that has been asked throughout the ages. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The answer has never been fully resolved to everyone's satisfaction. Linux has a bit of a chicken and egg quandary too. To compile a Linux distribution you need to start from Linux. However I am approaching this question from another angle. It is a well known fact that Linux can run and is running on just about everything under the Sun, and HP, Dell, IBM and any other company name you can t read more..

But Linux has so many little things wrong with it!

Published on Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:06:13 GMT

The time has come. You have heard so much about this Linux operating system. Everybody seems to be raving about it. Just about every job description for Information Technology has the words Linux knowledge bandied about in them. It's time, you think, to give this Linux the good old college try. So you prepare some space on your hard drive. Perhaps copy those piratebay, bittorrent and rapidshare downloaded movies, music and, er, saucy pictures, to some sort of backup media. Slipped in the shin read more..

Backing up your booty.

Published on Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:56:14 GMT

Every day we are bombarded with information. Every day we generate gobs of our own information. Most of that information is transient. In other words in one ear and out the other type of stuff. Even still the amount of information that is important to us and which wii will use later or just for archival purposes is growing as fast as our pockets can afford larger hard disks. This is because it seems that, no matter how large our hard disks are, we always find ways to fill them. Often igniting th read more..

Some things in Linux are hard. Get over it!

Published on Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:27:57 GMT

In the continuing scuffles between the various operating system advocacy's there is a recurring argument against Linux that it is hard to use. I emphatically disagree. Using a configured Linux distribution is no different to using any other configured operating system. You turn your computer on, play around with your mouse (computer mouse that is) and bash away on the keyboard. Things may have different names and be in different positions but those differences are, for those of average intellig read more..

Oracle should learn a lesson from Linux

Published on Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:22:50 GMT

Oracle is a big world wide database company. They produce large and complicated ERP systems whose size, just for the applications side, number in the range of sixty plus gigabytes. Naturally a software solution of such a large scale needs to be maintained and patched every now and then. Heck, any software project, no matter what size, needs the same thing. Being a fully assimilated system administrator I occasionally have to patch and maintain this ginormous Oracle collection of bits and byte read more..

Are source compiled packages really faster?

Published on Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:14:23 GMT

It is often a question of debate. Are packages compiled from source really faster than pre-digested ones? In other words will your Linux distribution run faster with apt or rpm packages compared to having everything compiled from source on your machine? Most people will say that compiling from source will make your machine run faster. There is a caveat to that which I will explain. Most binary distributions, due to having to cater to a multitude of different hardware configurations, compile t read more..

Linux gives me confidence

Published on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:11:42 GMT

This something I never had with windows. Confidence in my operating system. What do I mean by this? Well let me explain. Just recently I was doing a remote upgrade of Ubuntu Jaunty to Ubuntu Karmic. Everything was going along as easily as a hot knife through butter. Configuration files were changed, packages were downloaded and were in the process of being installed. Then it happened. Halfway through the upgrade. At the most sensitive part where the packages were being installed. The computer read more..

Linux users more experienced with windows.

Published on Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:13:48 GMT

It is hard to make up an article title to adequately express the meaning of this article in a few short words. What I really wanted the title to be is "Linux users are more experienced with windows than windows users are with Linux". This is part of a comment on a previous article and it struck a cord with me (c# I think :) so I wish to expand on it further. Even though more and more people are starting out their first computing experience with Linux, due to the support of major computing har read more..

Linux and windows people are the same.

Published on Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:02:47 GMT

There is a common belief propagated around the web that Linux users are a different breed of people than windows users. In the beginning of Linux history that would have been true. These days it is not. Linux has evolved to such an extent that anyone can and does use Linux. Ever since the dawn of computing there have been 10 types of people who use computers. There are the average users who just use a computer in the course of their daily work and there are the power users who love to delve i read more..

It's the eye of the beholder.

Published on Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:37:18 GMT

I am sure you know the saying. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. That definitely seems to be a true statement. I think that I am fat and ugly. My wife thinks that I am fat and handsome and a commenter on a forum talking about a post I wrote on my personal web site mentioned that I look nerdy (LOL). Not just beauty though, every single aspect of our lives changes depending on the eye of the beholder. Somebody read more..

My operating system is better than yours.

Published on Fri, 25 Dec 2009 02:18:44 GMT

It's all over the intanut tubes. My system is better than your system. Nyah, nyah, nyah! Usually with a response along the lines of sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me. The endless fights between windows and Linux advocates never seem to end. Both factions accuse each other of being FUDmunsters and zealots and both factions defend their own actions aggressively. It has been claimed that people have an almost religious zeal for their respective operating systems read more..

From windows to Linux. Was there a choice?

Published on Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:09:09 GMT

Ever since windows came out, until Linux and it's brethren came along, there has really been no other choice of operating system. Before you get your knickers in a knot and start spouting off the multitude of operating systems that were available at that time, let me explain. Around the time of windows 3.x there were a few competing operating systems, or more specifically, windowing systems operating on top of DOS. GEOS is one that I can remember, OS/2 was another. These were commercial offer read more..

My thoughts on windows 7

Published on Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:52:41 GMT

Even though I have had windows 7 beta for a while I have not played with it seriously. Sure I set it up and had it connected to the enterprise network, installed the programs which I use and gave it a quick run. After that I left it and went back to using windows xp as it uses less resources under a Virtualbox session. Before you become too shocked at me, a hard core Linux advocate, using windows, let me just state that as I have to support windows machines as part of my job, some things are read more..