August 10th, 2008 by vitaliy
The Slashdot comments on Paid Support Not Critical For Linux Adoption illustrates a very common problem with the Linux community. Many Linux users equate their personal computer use with that of large enterprises, or in other words they give advice based on their own very limited experience and not on facts.
The two comments below were [...]
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August 10th, 2008 by vitaliy
The Slashdot comments on Paid Support Not Critical For Linux Adoption illustrates a very common problem with the Linux community. Many Linux users equate their personal computer use with that of large enterprises, or in other words they give advice based on their own very limited experience and not on facts.
The two comments below were [...]
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August 9th, 2008 by vitaliy
It is impossible to have a conversation about Linux without someone brining up Ubuntu Linux. Whenever I mention that I dislike Ubuntu people either giving me the introduction to Linux speech or simply look at me funny. The matter usually comes up unexpectedly and I do not have adequate time to get my thoughts together [...]
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August 9th, 2008 by vitaliy
It is impossible to have a conversation about Linux without someone brining up Ubuntu Linux. Whenever I mention that I dislike Ubuntu people either giving me the introduction to Linux speech or simply look at me funny. The matter usually comes up unexpectedly and I do not have adequate time to get my thoughts together [...]
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August 5th, 2008 by vitaliy
iChm is a chm reader for Mac OS X, before iChm the two most popular clients lacked some of the major features and are absolutely hideous. iChm is Cocoa based, has an excellent tabs feature, is able to search through documents, and it has tons of other useful quirks.
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August 2nd, 2008 by brad
After ages of preferring Safari I think I’ve just convinced myself to switch to Firefox 3. I’ve added a few extensions to make it work pretty nicely the way I like, and fill in some features it’s missing (and some that Safari itself doesn’t have):
FoxMarks, so I can sync my bookmarks on all machines where [...]
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July 27th, 2008 by brad
I’ve noticed a trend, particularly among Mozilla Firefox users who have the NoScript extension installed, to block Google Analytics from running.
This isn’t Google spyware…
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July 26th, 2008 by vitaliy
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July 26th, 2008 by vitaliy
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July 24th, 2008 by brad
For a long time, Zimbra has been an ‘almost but not quite’ Exchange alternative – it offered the web GUI and the Outlook compatibility, but not the standards based calendar protocol (CalDAV) or the mobile device support of its big brother. Zimbra’s latest version, which has only been in the wild for a few months, is different.
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