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Top 10 linux sysadmin utilites

Monday, November 14th, 2005

There is an interesting article at Linux.com on the top ten administrator utilities in linux. Titled “My sysadmin toolbox” it goes into some detail on some of the good standby’s that if you’re interested in learning command line linux, you ought to take a look at. The one that I hesitate on is pwgen which […]

Linux livecd 6 month followups

Monday, November 14th, 2005

If you’ve ever given away linux livecd’s and wondered if they were ever tried, you might be interested in reading this newsforge article about a guy that followed up with several livecd recipients about 6 months on. It’s interesting to see what he found. There were a limited number, but it is interesting.    Send […]

klax KDE 3.5 RC1 screenshot tour

Monday, November 14th, 2005

KDE 3.5 RC1 has been out long enough that there’s already a series of screenshots… (11/11/05 was the announcement). Screenshots are available here. The screen caps were taken from the KLAX livecd.    Send article as PDF   

Netscape 7.1 download file could not be saved

Monday, November 14th, 2005

I’ve run across this a couple of times and to save me a few more Google searches…. Under Netscape 7.1, trying to download a file, there is a long message (with a temporary file address), and the following… (long path to file like c:\windows\temp\….. ) could not be saved because the source file could not […]

Free OpenOffice.org training videos

Sunday, November 13th, 2005

For those of you that can’t be dropped into an application and “wing it” learning by doing, newsforge has announced some openoffice.org training videos that are now available for free download. So, if you ever wanted or needed a video walkthrough for you or someone else on OpenOffice it looks like that need has been […]

Opendocument format getting more support

Friday, November 11th, 2005

There is support building for the opendocument format, it seems. The format is designed to prevent document lockin to proprietary formats and the group promoting it would like to see it supported by all office suites. (Currently OpenOffice.org 2 and Staroffice support the format, koffice 1.4.2 partially supports it (1.5 due for release after the […]

Mozilla Firefox RC2 released…

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

We’re inching yet closer to a new official release of the Mozilla Firefox browser. Yesterday was the 1st anniversary of the 1.0 release and today see’s the release of the second Release Candidate for 1.5 If you’ve already got a pre-release version of 1.5 it should automatically update. There may still be bugs, so… you […]

Mozilla Firefox birthday

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

According to spreadfirefox.com, a year ago today was the release of Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Firefox was released prior to November 9th, 2004 in preview releases and early betas, but the official 1.0 came out a year ago today, hard to believe. According to some sources it has as much as 10% of the web market […]

New List of Open Source software for Windows

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

In an effort to educate more people on the value of open source software, there is the Looplist. The Looplist was highlighted in desktoplinux.com today. It’s essentially a user-collaborated WIKI listing Open Source applications which run on Windows based systems.    Send article as PDF   

Windows cleanmgr takes too long at compress old files

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

Here’s a quick fix for Windows 2000 and XP when using cleanmgr to clean out temporary files. I’ve run across many systems that it just freezes (or takes way too long) calculating space saved by compressing old files, or hangs just saying “compress old files”. Well, here’s one way to skip that step.    Send […]

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