SuSE Linux 9.3

So the delivery guy dropped off the SuSE 9.3 shipment an hour ago, and now the first machine has been upgraded from SuSE 9.2 to SuSE 9.3. How smooth did the upgrade go? Well, apart from 30 or so packages that needed manual attention, everything …

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HP D530 and Maxtor = Bad batch?

I’m beginning to wonder if HP has purchased a bad batch of Maxtor harddisks for its D530 series of computers. In three months, I have come across three HP D530 SFF machines with a Maxtor harddisk going belly up. All three machines were at three …

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Drupal Theme: Kopernix

I finally found a light, yet styled theme for Drupal; it’s called Kopernix and is available from www.kopernix.com. Obviously, it’s not being used here since joho.se uses Serendipity, but you can see it in action on homrighausen.com.

Flash Gordon: Google Labs

It’s obviously me.. you can tell I’m getting old.. anyway, for those of you who haven’t seen this, check it out: labs.google.com.

Sloppy thinking in good product

What in the world would make a manufacturer like D-Link produce a nice and affordable router/gateway/firewall/VPN piece of equipment like the DI-804HV, and not include support for configuration by means of SSH and/or HTTPS? This product is by no means “brand new” or the “latest …

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SuSE goes PowerEdge 750

After having hesitated for many months and years, I finally got my hands on a new Dell server waiting to be configured for SuSE Linux (SuSE 9.0 Professional). Although the sales person was dearly convinced it would work without any problems (“Oh yes, we know …

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Svar till “Öppen Källkod kan aldrig bli affärskritisk”

På CS/Debatt 9/3 2005 skriver Stefan Dahlgren (vd, Bea Systems) att “Öppen källkod kan aldrig bli affärskritisk” (sic). Sådana här uttalanden hjälper varken hans egen sak (vilket uppenbarligen går ut på att främja Bea Systems produkter) eller att förtydliga för människor vad “Öppen källkod” innebär. …

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Has Sun seen the light?!

Sun today announced something referred to as OpenSolaris.. they also announced that they’re releasing a “free-to-use” license for some 1600 patents they claim to own. I’m not quite sure what all this means in regards to “real life”, but I’m sure millions of people and …

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