Community Support

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 [...]

Community Support

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 [...]

Ubuntu is Detrimental

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 [...]

Ubuntu is Detrimental

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 [...]

iChm

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.

Safari blowhard switches to Firefox 3, film at 11

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 [...]

Quit blocking Google Analytics.

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…

Dutch Telecom

July 26th, 2008 by vitaliy

Vitaliy Gladkevitch posted a photo:

Dutch Telecom

Akamai

July 26th, 2008 by vitaliy

Vitaliy Gladkevitch posted a photo:

Akamai

Practically Replacing Microsoft Exchange Server – A 3 Part Series – 2 of 3 – Zimbra Collaboration Suite

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.