By Mark on Apr 24, 2008 in Linux, LinuxToday, LinuxWorld, Open Source | 0 Comments
When you live in Raleigh, NC you realize any trip to the west coast isn’t direct. What’s really bad is when you I to a small city on the west coast I have a double layover trip. This time to beautiful Bellingham, WA. Today I will be enjoying the fine amenities of the Atlanta and [...]
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By Mark on Mar 22, 2008 in Linux, Open Source | 1 Comment
I saw an announcement that the OpenMicroServer (OMS) is now available in the U.S. It has been produced in Japan for some time but has just been made available domestically. What’s cool about it is that it is small and can be powered from an Ethernet port. It reminded me of the BlackDog USB Server [...]
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By Mark on Mar 17, 2008 in Linux, LinuxToday, LinuxWorld, Open Source, Web Applications | 1 Comment
Mandrake Linux Founder now Ulteo Chairman and CTO Gaël Duval today announced a new beta release of the Ulteo Online Desktop a hosted desktop solution built from open source technology. The Ulteo product suite includes the following:
Ulteo Online Desktop (Ulteo OD, version 1): UOD lets users store their documents online, and open them with [...]
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By Mark on Mar 15, 2008 in Linux, LinuxToday, LinuxWorld, Mozilla, Open Source | 0 Comments
Recently, I installed Ubuntu 7.10 on two laptops. One of my first tasks after updating all my software was to install my favorite Firefox extensions. Unfortunately I was unable to do so. I didn’t receive an error message the download and installation process just stalled.
I wondered if the problem was Ubuntu specific so [...]
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By Mark on Feb 16, 2008 in Featured, Linux, LinuxToday, LinuxWorld, Open Source, Syndication | 0 Comments
I have been watching the Linux laptop market for a while now. I used Linux on a Dell for over six years and was reasonably happy until I discovered EVDO. There simply wasn’t good support for the cards so I switched to Mac OS X.
I got a little excited over the OLPC very cool [...]
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