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With impeccable timing…. Desktop Linux is reporting that Resolvo systems has released their “MoveOver Enterprise” desktop migration tool to assist migrating from Windows to Linux in the Enterprise.    Send article as PDF   

Well, I alluded yesterday to a struggle with installing Windows XP under Qemu. Here are some details on the long and (still winding) road. At this point I have a working XP install running under Qemu but, I’ve run out of disk space (2G) and need more space before I can upgrade it to SP2. […]

There is a Newsforge article talking about “Best Practices for the Linux home office”. They cover a lot of ground for the newcomer to linux. But some of their advice is excellent for computing in general. One is to treat your work machine like a production system (not development) the advice here is not to […]

I’ve been using a site the last two days that I thought others might find useful. If you don’t know about it already, it’s bootdisk.com. They have available for download all sorts of Dos, Windows and Linux boot discs.    Send article as PDF   

Tux magazine has a comparison of su and sudo as ways to administer a linux system. Many people are under the mistaken impression that you just login as root (gui or otherwise) and that’s the only way to do it. In fact, I’ve used su primarily. Although in some circumstance sudo has it’s benefits.    […]

Eweek is running a round up of some of the alternatives to Exchange. Bynari’s Insight server, Communigate Pro Real-Time Collaboration, Gordano Messaging Suite, and Scalix Server are all mentioned and compared. (No mention of Kolab or other open-source alternatives which, depending on the feature set required can serve for the task.)    Send article as […]

Firefox 1.5 will have DHTML accessibility code donated from IBM. DHTML is code that makes some of the dynamic web pages like google maps as interactive with desktop-like application responsiveness. The accessibility code will help pages be narrated to the viewer, or magnified for easier reading. Also it will assist in navigating pages using the […]

Recently I’ve had an experiment with the way Google crawls a site. I had a client site that had not been spidered in spite of being submitted to Google a good while back. I looked at the site and saw nothing amiss. There was plenty of text on the page everything looked good. I found […]

Hylafax is a linux server application that can be configured to be the central fax gateway for your business (or home.) Essentially it can deal with queing and sending faxes and receiving them. Faxes can be saved as tiff or pdf files.    Send article as PDF   

Extreme tech has an article talking about building your own render farm. So, you want to rival ILM or WETA? With off the shelf (even used hardware) it’s possible to do amazing things graphically. They discuss several things linux related as the way to go. Also ghost4linux *(g4l) is mentioned.    Send article as PDF […]