Category: Technology

The Best and Worst of 1994 and Predictions for ’95

March 9, 2007 - Internet , Technology , Web - by admin - No Comments

Worst: There’s not much that’s bad on the Net, but because cyberspace does imitate life, we shouldn’t be surprised that in 1994 some less-than-desirable material showed its insolent face. Pick any tragic event and you can probably recall seeing a newsgroup that taunted its seriousness. There was alt.tonya-harding. whack.whack.whack. Then […]

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

e-Government

March 8, 2007 - Glasgow , Technology - by admin - No Comments

Along with the national sites, like petitions.pm.gov.uk, WriteToThem, and TheyWorkForYou, it’s good to see the councils finally bringing more services online for residents. For a while, people have been able to report lighting and roads faults to them using RALF, and also pay their council bills online at billpayment.co.uk. Certainly, […]

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 […]

Linux & Active Directory

February 14, 2007 - Computers , Linux , Technology , Windows - by admin - 1 Comment

I used to deal with Linux in Active Directory quite a bit, especially with Winbind, Samba and Active Directory. It’s amazing how quickly things change, and I already feel as if my knowledge is atrophying at an exponential rate…