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 …
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. …
Way to go Poland for (once again) stalling the process of the EU ruling/deciding on Software Patents within the EU. Many aspects of the proposals, and current laws/regulations in some other countries in regards to software patens are truly and unquestionably stupid! There are so …
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 …
I’ve been looking for years, and I’m still looking.. What am I looking for? A gallery application that will allow me to source photos from a “collection” and then write a story using these photos. I’ve looked at numerous so-called gallery applications, and they all …
After having sucessfully upgraded from SuSE 9.1 to 9.2, I noticed all my terminal shortcuts stopped working. Lo and behold, my Eterm binaries had been removed (gasp!). So I’m currently stuck with sucky gnome-terminal. Why, oh why did my Eterm go away.. 🙁
I just finished upgrading some ten installations of McAfee’s VirusScan Professional at a customer site. Most of them were upgraded from 7.x to 8.x, for some it was enough to renew the virus update subscription. I’ve been doing IT for the better part of my …
Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it 😉 (Linus Torvalds)
Wow! Two new toys in the world of Linux! SuSE Linux 9.2 looks to be a lot of fun, and comes with a number of nice improvements over previous versions. Running the upgrade procedure on a SuSE Linux 9.1 installation worked like a charm (albeit …