random stuff from a digital immigrant
By Eric on Oct 17, 2008 in Geek Stuff, Linux, Microsoft, Open Source | Comments Off
During this time of financial “belt tightening” we are all feeling the pinch and probably no one more than the IT organization budgets across the corporate map. IT is typically the first to get hit, and hit hard, by cut backs. It’s during this time that CIOs and VP’s who wouldn’t have given Open Source [...]
By Eric on Oct 10, 2008 in Apple, Geek Stuff, General, Linux, Microsoft, OSX, Ubuntu | Comments Off
I’ve stated before how I am fortunate to be in a position where I typically work on a Linux, OSX, and Windows desktops on regular basis. Depending on what I am doing and my location I might spend a good amount of time on any of these systems. For the most part, my life style [...]
By Eric on Sep 8, 2008 in Geek Stuff, General, Linux, Ubuntu, Video | Comments Off
Recently I got my invite to try out the new Dropbox service. I am a long time Folder Share user and had heard some good things about Dropbox. I have to say, I am very happy with the performance of Dropbox and was even more pleased when I found out there was a Open Source [...]
By Eric on Sep 1, 2008 in Geek Stuff, Linux, Open Source, Ubuntu, Video | Comments Off
I had made mention last week to a couple of friends how I got a few Adobe Air applications up and running on my Ubuntu install. I walked one person through how I did it and decided to also make a quick video tutorial on the process.
A couple disclaimers, first one is that I [...]
By Eric on Jul 21, 2008 in Apple, Family, Funny, Geek Stuff, General, Linux, OSX, Ubuntu | Comments Off
Sometimes it’s the simple things that amaze people and leave them thinking you are some type of computer genius. My daughters have grown up with computers, and I mean hardcore. Their first computer was a SUSE Linux machine; they’ve worked on Windows and OS X boxes and they know their way around them all. At [...]
By Eric on Jun 24, 2008 in Geek Stuff, Linux, Microsoft, Open Source, Video | Comments Off
I think it goes without saying that I am a huge supporter of Open Source but believe it or not I am also a big fan of Bill Gates. You’ve got to respect what he did for the industry and what he does for the world through his charities. The guy is a geek’s version [...]
By Eric on Jun 8, 2008 in Geek Stuff, Linux, Microsoft, Open Source | Comments Off
Interesting article over on ZDNet. I don’t know what surprised me more, “Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violation” or to hear Microsoft actually has a “open-source and Linux team”.
Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violation
By Eric on Jun 8, 2008 in Funny, Geek Stuff, General, Linux, NotMyPosting | Comments Off
Interesting, something to think about
Funny comic, I love UserFriendly.org
By Eric on May 31, 2008 in Funny, Geek Stuff, Linux, PEAR, PHP, Perl, Ubuntu | Comments Off
For you hard core, Assembly Language Programming hommies.
Article from http://www.joeydevilla.com/2008/05/29/geek-gang-signs/
By Eric on Dec 27, 2007 in Geek Stuff, Linux, Ubuntu | Comments Off
So typically I would not recommend auto login setting be set for your system but there are some exceptions. For example, when that system is a Virtual Machine running on your desktop.
I’ve been playing around a lot with my Ubuntu configuration on a virtual machine running under VMWare Fusion. I got tired of having [...]
