New York enterprise Windows User Group April 2011 meeting
The topic of the April 2011 meeting of the NYeWin presented by Hansang Bae, who currently leads the Network/Application Performance Engineering Team for Citi, was WireShark. WireShark is a professional...
View ArticleTop 20 open source content management systems
While researching competitor open source projects to WordPress and Drupal, I ran a number of Google searches for open source Content Management System (CMS), Enterprise Content Management (ECM), and...
View ArticleopenSIS and Moodle
A couple of interesting open source projects cropped up during my research into open source Content Management Systems (CMS). openSIS is a commercial grade, secure, scalable and intuitive Open Source...
View ArticleBrazil and open source
Since the election of president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva almost a decade ago, the government of Brazil announced its endorsement for open source software. As of 2003, Brazil’s National Information...
View ArticleOpen Source – Enemy of the State?
While researching the topic of open source software adoption in Brazil, I found a couple of interesting blog posts dealing with the U.S. government’s official stance on intellectual property rights...
View ArticleUbuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat as a desktop OS
Over the weekend I decided to take a fresh look at how competitive Linux is on the desktop (on the server end, LAMP already has a very high adoption rate). I downloaded and installed the latest version...
View ArticleHow to troubleshoot Suspend/Hibernate in Ubuntu 10.10
The only problem I encountered using Ubuntu 10.10 was failure to Suspend or Hibernate. To be more specific, the issue was — not being able to Resume from Suspend or Hibernate. To be even more specific,...
View ArticleHow to install VMware Workstation 7.1.4 in Ubuntu 10.10
Installing VMware Workstation 7.1.4 for Linux in Ubuntu 10.10 is pretty straightforward. You no longer have to do it via command line, since VMware does provide a bundled GUI install. Continue reading →
View ArticleGoogle found guilty of patent infringement for using Linux
Jury upholds patent infringement claim against the Linux kernel, tells Google to pay $5 million in damages, with more lawsuits against big Linux users threatened Continue reading →
View ArticleLinux kernel patent infringement lawsuit details
Yesterday we received alarming news of a court ruling in Texas, that awarded Bedrock Computer Technologies $5 million in damages from Google, allegedly because Google is using versions of Linux kernel...
View ArticleDemise of OpenOffice
One of the first things you notice when installing Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal,” [other than Unity desktop GUI] is that OpenOffice (OOo) has been replaced with LibreOffice. OpenOffice, is (or was) an...
View ArticleWinZip vs. 7-Zip
Occasionally I get calls from users asking what to do when prompted to buy WinZip software after their initial trial period expired. Now, the reason why they installed WinZip in the first place speaks...
View ArticleLast great version of PDFCreator suite
PDFCreator, the free PDF converter tool, seems to be out with a new version every couple of months or so. I like this software and has been an avid user for years, having long ago abandoned the bloated...
View ArticleTop free and open source log management software
As mentioned in the previous post, in my quest to find an alternative to Kiwi Syslog, I looked at a few Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings first, and then started exploring open source log...
View ArticleOpen source — IT pro’s salvation from the Cloud
In an earlier post, “Adapting IT jobs to applications moving into the cloud”, I suggested that an average IT professional’s skillset is changing primarily due to the fact that applications are moving...
View ArticleWhat is the best Linux distribution for deploying LAMP?
A common question that comes up fairly often, is which Linux distribution is best to use for deploying the LAMP software bundle? Quick reminder, the acronym LAMP refers to the first letters of Linux...
View ArticleFree open source support ticket system written in PHP
A few years back I was asked to find a support ticket system that was self-contained, web-based, preferrably open source and written in PHP. That way it can be easily modified and integrated into...
View ArticleHow to install Hyper-V Integration Services (ICs) in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
After you install the guest OS on the virtual machine in Hyper-V, you need to to install the Hyper-V Integration Services in the guest OS. Since the Hyper-V Integration Components were contributed to...
View ArticleHow to set a static IP address in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Most of this information is described in detail in the official Ubuntu documentation, so I will only include the steps necessary to configure a static IP address from the command line in Ubuntu 12.04...
View ArticleTree.io — the all-inclusive cloud-based business management system
That is how Tree.io is marketed. I stumbled upon it while looking for alternatives to osTicket. Tree.io is open source software created and maintained by Adam Awan of Tree.io Ltd based in London, UK....
View ArticleOpen source wireless access point (Wi-Fi) routers
Recently, one of my coworkers had asked me to recommend a good wireless router for home office use. Based on my past experiences, I suggested looking at products from Linksys and Netgear. It should be...
View ArticleOpen Source as a marketing gimmick
Open source is free and open to innovation. It’s what the people want! It just sounds cool. Obviously by this point the marketing people have arrived. It seems that there is a new marketing trend to...
View ArticleHow to setup NTP server in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
The initial Google search on “implementing NTP server on Ubuntu” produced a number of conflicting results. As it turned out, the process is very simple — much simpler than described in some blogs. The...
View ArticleHow to set the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
To set the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) for a Ubuntu 12.04 LTS host, one needs to edit the /etc/hosts file. Please note that the FQDN is specified in the hosts file and not the /etc/hostname...
View ArticleHow to install updates in Ubuntu via command line (CLI)
Ubuntu was built to compete with Windows, and as such it includes a lot of features Windows users take for granted. Canonical packaged Ubuntu with the automated process for downloading and installing...
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