Welp, the writing has been on the wall for this announcement to happen. There was a leaked Oracle memo that basically says the OpenSolaris OS is going to be put on ice and that Oracle has plans to make Solaris not only a sustainable OS but also a profitable one – the #1 Enterprise server [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Well, I did it. I determined that purchasing an Apple Macbook Pro was the approach I should take to meet my personal/business computing needs at my workstation. What drove me to this decision? Well, I just can’t stand it when an OS screws me over without giving me recourse. That was the case a few [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Since becoming a daily user of Linux on my desktop over a year ago, I have been taking notice of who else also uses either Linux of OSX for their desktop. I was pleasantly surprised that there are a lot of people out there that have dabbled in Linux desktops or have completely embraced them. [...]
Read the rest of this entry »If you have ventured into using Linux on the desktop then you will more than likely need access to the IFS from Nautilus (equivalent to Windows Explorer on Windows). This tip shows how to use Samba to connect to an AS400 folder share. I had already setup the necessary NetShares on the AS400 a long [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Now don’t ask me how useful running Linux in the browser using Java is, but I am more interested interested in what ELSE could come out from such an endeavour.
http://www-jpc.physics.ox.ac.uk/home_home.html
What will “they” think of next?? Is this the next phase of virtualization? I have already used Citrix from the browser I guess, but that was [...]
So I have been developing in C#.NET the past couple weeks in preperation for a new software release from Krengel Technology Inc named “DB2 Web Service Enabler” (ping me if you want in on being a beta customer). Being that I am on a Linux desktop I naturally wanted to develop my C#.NET code using [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Was doing my usual defrag of the VirtualBox Windows install I have and decided I should learn how Linux does it. Turns out Linux doesn’t really need it:
http://www.itworld.com/nls_unixfrag040929
Cool!
I have been doing a really bad job of posting my articles to this blog as I do at least one and sometimes two a month. Here is one of my most recent ones that shows how to run WDSC from the Linux Desktop using VirtualBox and a virtual instance of Windows XP Pro.
Article Link: [...]
Ok, so that was a lame attempt at a Spanish statement, but what can you expect from a guy that got a C in that highschool class ;-)
Every once in awhile I run across individuals that are head over heals for Microsoft’s development tools, which aren’t too shabby – now if I could only run [...]
What makes the title of this blog entry interesting is that this happened in 2003 – nearly 6 years ago! Imagine how much farther along the Linux/open source community is by now and how much easier it is to embrace everything!
Here’s the article: http://news.cnet.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html
Does Microsoft hold your little beating heart and squeeze it whenever [...]