This is a note targeted at family and friends who might find that they are not able to connect to the Internet from July 9, 2012 onwards. This only affects those whose machines were are running Windows or Mac OSX…
This is a note targeted at family and friends who might find that they are not able to connect to the Internet from July 9, 2012 onwards. This only affects those whose machines were are running Windows or Mac OSX…
It is wonderful to see the Fedora Users and Developers Conference kick off in Kuala Lumpur today, May 18 2012. The plan was for me to attend, do a keynote and also pitch a talk for the barcamp. But, Murphy…
As promised earlier, the final bits of getting an application that runs on the old hardware on to the VM is now all done. I tried to install the app but, I really did not want to spend too much…
I decided to take the plunge and run Fedora 17 before it’s officially launched in May. My system has been running Fedora 16 x86-64 since the launch last November and I must say that it has been solid – including…
While I would like to stand up and cheer Microsoft on them setting up the “Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc”, I am not convinced that they are doing this in good faith. Microsoft’s founder, Bill Gates, said in 1991 – 21…
I came across this tool, localtunnel, that offers a way to expose a localhost based webserver (for example) to the internet. It is a reverse proxy that brings you to your machine way behind a firewall by bouncing off of…
Some of you would know that I am employed by a company called Red Hat since September 2003, it will be nine years with the organization. That’s longer than I have been with any of my startups (Inquisitive Mind and…
After about two years ago to the day (plus or minus), I’ve finally gotten around to moving a friend’s ancient SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 to run on a modern operating system within a virtual machine. My friend acquired a brand new…
Saw this on identi.ca feed: “@climagic youtube-dl -q -o- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zscrs94_pFc | mplayer – cache 1000 - # Watch youtube streaming directly to mplayer” So, do yum install youtube-dl mplayer on your Fedora machines, then you can pull in youtube videos with the…
Finally, I’ve found time and motivation to attend the O’Reilly organized Open Source Convention 2011 in Portland, Oregon. It has been many years since I was in Portland – in fact, the times I spent in Portland was when I was…
