Category: Linux

Windows Home Server

August 23, 2007 - Linux , Technology , Things that annoy Kyle , Windows - by admin - 1 Comment

Recently Linux-Watch.com ran an article on how to do the same job as Windows Home Server with Linux. It’s annoying that people, even those qualified enough to write articles on prominent websites, seem to fall victim to misunderstanding what various platforms offer.

In-flight Crash

April 3, 2007 - Aeroplanes , Linux , Travel - by admin - 2 Comments

Hugh Thompson relates his story of how he managed to crash the in-flight entertainment system with a few well placed keypresses. He goes into the detail behind it, and the amusing outcome of his test case. An amusing read 🙂

More Zap Bugs

April 2, 2007 - Asterisk , Bugs , Linux , Things that annoy Kyle , VoIP - by admin - No Comments

In an astounding piece of ignorance, the Digium bug tracking managers have closed off bugs 8763 and 9081. Both bugs are clearly reproducable, clearly showstoppers, and clearly a big problem, yet they refer the original reporter to Digium support and close off the bug as “No change required”. Now, if […]

Bill Gates recommends Ubuntu

March 9, 2007 - Linux , Technology - by admin - No Comments

Ubuntu has come a long, long way from its beginnings. Now it’s gotten to a stage where even Bill Gates will recommend it. Congratulations Ubuntu! :-p Originally hosted on UMassLUG

Evolution

March 6, 2007 - Computers , Cool things , Linux , Novell , Technology - by admin - No Comments

It’s been around for a while and I vaguely recall checking out the collection of Zip files, but it took this article to encourage me to give it a shot again. Evolution now has (well, back in July 2006) a slick Windows installer to ease the pain of dependency checks […]