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Re: Anatomy of a standalone KDE Mac package

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:27:57 -0600

There was this blog entry about the state of packaging for the Mac. Containing "Then you think to yourself, if only those nice boys and girls in KDE-land had a native solution for installing their software," ...

Vacation message with Sieve script

admin — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:08:30 -0600

A while back I had some issues setting a vacation message with Sieve and ended up summarising the required steps in this blog entry.

Scripting technology demonstrations in (Open)Solaris - V.2

admin — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:13:10 -0500

This blog entry represents an update to my earlier blog on " Scripting technology demonstrations in Solaris ". I created this entry, because I rewrote the software to include new functionality and to no longer ...

The Unix Hater's Handbook, Reconsidered

admin — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:22:02 -0500

A commenter on my post pre-announcing asked "esr, from the perspective of a graybeard, which chapters did you consider good and which chapters did you consider bad?" Good question, and worthy of a blog entry.

Improving Mandriva's Boot Performance

admin — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:22:50 -0500

Fred Crozat, who heads Mandriva's French engineering team, has written a blog entry that explains in detail some of the work they have accomplished. These boot improvements include not waiting for the network to startup for D-Bus or the display manager, eliminating the creation of legacy ptys by the kernel, enhancing initrd, and improving udev.

Ubuntu Saves Compaq Presario 2100 From Death and Windows

admin — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:07:34 -0500

Are you ready to throw out your old, slow, bug-filled Windows PC? Before you do so, consider this story about how Ubuntu 8.04 saved an aging Compaq Presario 2100 from certain death. The blog entry appears on Works With U, the independent guide to Ubuntu Linux.

Dan Curtis Johnson

admin — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:36:52 -0500

In place of an actual blog entry, here are a few things that have been on my mind: I was going to write this myself, but Charlie Stross explains why I won't be using Google Chrome better than I can.

Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 release - live - Day 2

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:12:58 -0500

This is day 2 of the finishing of Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1. If you havent read what happened day 1, please take a look in that blog entry

New iPod Nano, iPod Touch, iTunes 8.0, and Blu-Ray in OS X 10.5....

admin — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:44:06 -0500

Digg.com's Kevin Rose has posted a new blog entry and YouTube video claiming to have knowledge of upcoming iPod updates with a significant number of details:

- Revamp of entire iPod line.
- Small cosmetic changes to Touc...

Hell Has Frozen Over

admin — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:52:46 -0500

A blog entry concerning the recent influx of cash from Microsoft into the Apache Software Foundation. Some of us find it disturbing.