Another sign that the Microsoft empire is failing and falling: Steve Jobs acknowledges that Microsoft will be forced to embrace web-to-deskptop technology. He’s about two years too late. Google, Yahoo, and many others are way ahead in this game.
Another sign that the Microsoft empire is failing and falling: Steve Jobs acknowledges that Microsoft will be forced to embrace web-to-deskptop technology. He’s about two years too late. Google, Yahoo, and many others are way ahead in this game.
You may have read here before about my ventures with Linux on the home pc, where things must work for the whole family, not just me the Linux Geek. Back in March or so, I grew tired of Windows XP on my home desktop. I was sick of having to…
For the last few weeks, the techie blogs have been circulating stories about how Microsoft Windows Vista can be installed and used for free for 120 days. You see, Microsoft gives you 30 days to try it out for nothing, but then they will disarm it and require you to…
I just got through setting up Tomcat5.5, Apache2, and mod_jk on a RedHat Enterprise AS4.4 machine at work. In the past, I have done this by compiling each component separately and fingling with config files until it all worked. But I wanted to stick with RedHat-approved RPM’s from the RedHat…
After about 4 hours of using Ubuntu Linux, I ditched it and installed Fedora Core 4. The main reason was that Ubuntu does not have a root user. This may seem odd to experienced Linux folks, but the intentions behind it are good. Unless you know what you are doing,…
I got fed up. Fed up with a bogged down operating system. I got tired of viruses, spyware, licenses, etc etc etc. Tonight I made the switch. No, not to Apple. To Linux. Full-time, full-on Linux. Ubuntu, to be exact. Within two hours I was up and running a smooth…