Fred Langa has a good article up over at Information Week about small and zero-footprint Linux distros.. I may have to download one of the “run from CD” versions so I have something I can play with at work during slow times. It’s almost summer, once we get through our big annual meeting in late…
Here’s the background. There is one thing in our member database that you absolutely cannot do. It completely messes up everything from billing, to accounting, to well, everything! Let’s call this action “XYZ”, shall we? Now, keep in mind that not doing “XYZ” is one of the first things I tell people when they start…
Looks like Tony has left Penguin Shell. Someone else will be writing that particular Lockergnome newsletter. I can understand what Tony had to say about it, and I can also understand what Chris has to do as a businessman, and I wish them both the best of luck in their separate directions! Thanks for all…
I’m spending my afternoon updating the ROM on the Dell Axim. Yeah I know everyone else has already done it, but hey, I’ve been busy. :)Anyway, I’m now running a full backup and already have the 27MB file downloaded and waiting for this backup to finish. Wish me luck! Later: Everything seems to be working…
Thanks to a kind offer from Matthew Miller, I am now running a full version of MSGTAG, a new email “tagging” utility from the people who brought us Mailwasher. Matthew gave me an activation key for the “Status” version of the product, and I intend to use it for a few days and then do…
I caught one person not following instructions yesterday, and I’m sure I’ll catch more at some point in the near future. You see, over a month ago, our pseudo-ISP changed some of their network setup. They sent me the information in an email. I needed to get everyone’s DNS server changed, which is a simple…