When I was younger I used
to love to watch Star
Trek. My favorite part of
the show was the
transporter. I was in awe
of the idea that the crew
of the Enterprise could
just transport anywhere
they wanted to go.
Organizations spend a lot
of money on equipment, on
personnel to manage the
equipment and on
infrastructure to insure
that the tools to do a
job are available and can
be run by their employees
error-free.
A transformation is
taking place in
telecommunications to
meet the demands of new
voice and data
technologies. These
technologies include
Voice-over-IP (VoIP), the
packet-switched
alternative to
old-fashioned
circuit-switched
...
In April of 2003, I
stumbled upon Randy
Hyde's Web site for HLA
(High Level Assembly). I
was originally sent to
the Web site via Google,
a popular search engine.
I wasn't searching for
Assembly Language;
rather, I had been
searchi...
I often speak about the
Linux desktop as a viable
business solution and
analyze how and why it
works, what's handy and
where it's progressing
but maybe one point gets
lost and that's the
manageability of the
Linux desktop, not only ...
Doing business in today's
intensely competitive
world is increasingly
stressful. Management
demands improvements in
efficiency,
responsiveness,
analytics, performance
and a host of other
criteria. The pressure to
improve margins a...
In the area of Mail
Transfer Agents (MTAs),
most people would look at
sendmail as the most
popular solution in the
open source/Linux arena.
However, it's not the
only solution. Although
postfix is popular with a
number of administra...
Dee-Ann LeBlanc's classic
Linux for Dummies takes
the new user from the
basics of the operating
system through installing
and using it. Now in its
sixth edition, I talked
to Dee-Ann about the
book, her thoughts on the
direction of L...
Corporate migration to a
Linux desktop requires
rigorous premigration
planning to succeed. The
goal of migration is to
finish with a Linux
desktop that is
cost-effective and
responsive to the
organization's needs.
Without proper d...
The OSDL Desktop Linux
Working Group (DTL)
captures, discusses,
publishes and develops
Linux capabilities
definitions required by
demanding,
enterprise-class desktop
applications. The
ultimate goal is to
accelerate the use of
Li...
As the number of open
source software (OSS)
projects grows, OSS
alternatives are showing
up in more and more
software evaluations at
large organizations.
However, evaluating OSS
effectively requires that
IT professionals use
diffe...
The emergence of
commodity supercomputing
has driven clusters based
on the Linux operating
system into engineering
and scientific research
organizations that
couldn't afford their own
supercomputing resources
before. But Linux
clu...
After a bit of confusion
about what column should
appear in what order, I
think we're in good shape
now and this should be
the seventh of my columns
you read.
With the recent release
of SuSE 9.2 Professional
and Novell's Linux
Desktop operating
systems, the Linux
desktop is ready to
compete with Microsoft
Windows for client-side
computing in a business
environment. I know this
is someth...
Linux' popularity makes
it an attractive target
for application
developers, but it's not
always easy to write
software that runs
without modification on a
wide variety of
distributions. Both open
source and commercial
developers o...
The year 2004 began
auspiciously with the
introduction of the 2.6
Linux kernel and advanced
rapidly for the Open
Source Development Labs
(OSDL), its membership
and the communities it
represents and serves.
Let us reflect on OSDL's
...
New Year's Day, and as
with most holidays, I
found myself at my
in-laws' house for the
entire day. Now, I
actually like my mother-
and father-in-law, but
spending eight hours at a
house without cable or
any kind of Internet
connec...
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I took the advice of a
friend of mine and
steered clear of the
'normal' movie theaters
and went a little out of
the way to go to a DLP
movie theater. The
experience
Canonical CEO Mark
Shuttleworth has been
telling Reuters that Sun
is in the process of
certifying Ubuntu on some
of its low-end and
mid-size hardware. The
code it's
Because AJAX moves so
much application logic
from the server to the
client, it forces many
developers to master a
wider range of web
technologies than ever
before. T
I installed Ubuntu on the
Toshiba laptop. Ubuntu
installed in 15 minutes -
49 for Windows XP and 125
for Windows Vista.
Ubuntu's desktop came
right up. I opened the
Zend has decided, and I
think this is a great
idea, to join in with the
Eclipse community that
was founded in large part
by IBM a number of years
ago. The values tha
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I took the advice of a
friend of mine and
steered clear of the
'normal' movie theaters
and went a little out of
the way to go to a DLP
movie theater. The
experience 
Canonical CEO Mark
Shuttleworth has been
telling Reuters that Sun
is in the process of
certifying Ubuntu on some
of its low-end and
mid-size hardware. The
code it's 
I installed Ubuntu on the
Toshiba laptop. Ubuntu
installed in 15 minutes -
49 for Windows XP and 125
for Windows Vista.
Ubuntu's desktop came
right up. I opened the 
Zend has decided, and I
think this is a great
idea, to join in with the
Eclipse community that
was founded in large part
by IBM a number of years
ago. The values tha