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You ditched IE because it just wasn’t safe to use and now that you are safe(r) in your Firefox world… errr. At least thats what you thought until now. Read up and make sure your not one of the many that have been force feed more of the Microshaft handy work.
For those of us that have to administer email servers I’m sure you have had moments of “Why did I ever switch from my old email server” moments. Well, I have one of those last week and thought I would share what it took to fix the problem with hopes that it may help someone else keep from kicking their mail server to the curb.
Apple recently dropped the iPhone 3.1 update on the world and many users did the MINOR .1 revision update. I say minor because it is customary to have any .x updates be bug fixes and minor tweeks to the system. However, this was a little more then just a tweek if you look at it from the IT/Security/You Should Have Told Us perspective. Google may have made some noise when they released the Google Chrome OS but in the background they were and have been working on a remote X protocal that they quietly released on July 7th called NeatX. Check out the full scoop here>>. In a bold move, Sony Imageworks moves to open source some of their programs. This is a great shift in the market for those of us that use Linux but are still ham-strung by a few apps that just don’t play well in wine or have an Open Source alternative. Now if we can just get Adobe to hook us up. Check out the full story here >>. I recently installed eeebuntu on my eee900 netbook and after 2 weeks I have to say I love it. I had originally opted to install crunch bang and while I really loved how clean and the interface was it seemed just a little slow. So I figured I’d try out a new distro. The netbook interface seemed painfully slow but once I switch over to the standard desktop all was good. For anyone that is looking to get an Asus netbook and would like to run Linux ( seeing how Asus sold out to Microsoft ) I highly recommend giving eeebuntu a try. For those of us that keep up-to-date with all the newest browsers out there in effort to keep all of our sites working across as many browsers as we can, the Mozilla team has release an update for their Firefox browser. While this update is a security update I find it fitting for in our world as we spend so much time on the Internet. And lets face it. A downed computer mean no work. So in an effort to stay as safe as you can while dipping into the Internet waters why not head on over to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html and grab some protection. I just finished reading a short blog about Google being not only a friend but also a foe to the Open Source movement (read blog). I will say that when I first heard about Google Chrome OS I was a little exited as well as confused to the direction they may take it and what would happen to other Open Source projects that they would compete with directly. The above blog hits on all of those subject and is something that all Open Source users need to not only think about but follow as this may change the landscape for Linux and who will be using it. Of course I see this as a chance to really open up the possibilities and to finally hit a part of the market that would have never used Linux before. This may even open up the door to get those much needed applications that vendors wouldn’t port before because the user base just wasn’t there. All that aside you have to wonder if Google will become the New Redmond or will they stay true to the Open Source community. They finally did it. Google has announced they will be releasing a new OS based on the Linux Kernel. This is not the Android OS but a new OS all together. Check out the full blob here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html |
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