OpenSource
URL shortening
Long URLs don’t play nicely if you’re character-limited, e.g. when posting to twitter, or maybe, including a link in an email or when leaving a comment on a blog or forum. Therefore, the use of URL shortening services, which, for example, can turn http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TinyURL&diff=283621022&oldid=283308287into http://tinyurl.com/mmw6lb are very useful. So, I decided to set-up and host [...]
IM utopia
For Mac OS X, Adium allows users to use one instant messaging (IM) client application to connect to multiple IM services. For Windows, Linux, BSD, and other UNIX platforms, Pidgin offers the same. They allow you to connect to AOL Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, .Mac/Apple Chat, GoogleTalk, Lotus SameTime, MySpaceIM, and many more. [...]
Well, it’s news to me
OK, almost a month late and I read for the first time that Sun is to acquire MySQL. I must have been living under a rock (as they say).
Thought provoking acronym and logo
Is it just me, or is anyone else amused by the acronym and logo used for the 7th Thailand Open Source Software Festival?
Learn Linux and help the world, virtually
Well, sort of. Any regular readers of my blog will know that I bang-on about World Community Grid. It’s so simple to install and it only runs when your computer is powered on but idle; I don’t know why everyone doesn’t run it on their machine(s). I’m also interested in all the statistics — there’s [...]
XAMPP
Developing web sites is fun (well, it can be). Setting up a development environment, however, is not always a fun thing to do. It’s not easy to install an Apache web server and it gets harder if you want to add MySQL, PHP and Perl and getting all this to work together is not for [...]
FreeNAS – Jan 07 SourceForge Project of the Month
More FreeNAS news … I’ve just spotted that SourceForge has announced that FreeNAS was January 2007 SourceForge Project of the Month.
FreeNAS – rebuild and upgrade
I like FreeNAS a lot. It’s a UNIX-based Network Attached Storage server. It’s best points are: great stability, good functionality, open-source and, best of all, it’s free. I’ve been running a FreeNAS box for a while (previous post) and, with the latest release 0.68 I thought it was time to upgrade a little.
Reasons to switch to Firefox
Kill Bill’s Browser has 13 reasons to switch to Firefox. All damn fine reasons if you ask me.
Firefox 2.0 available
One browser to rule them all. Firefox 2.0 is available.
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