Linux

Had a good lunch with Dana today and in the ensuring (computer security related) discussion he mentioned that someone, somewhere had compared Windows 2000‘s defaults services to those of Redhat‘s Enterprise Linux, and found them to have the same number of attack vectors (that’s “vulnerabilities” to normal people 🙂 Since I have no access to […]

I’ve been trying to check out the latest GNOME before it’s released by using GARNOME but have been plauged by compile errors. Well, “plauged” is probably a bad term… I got “a” compile error and didn’t see an obvious way to fix it, so I gave up. The same error has prevented me from trying

Last night was the FVLUG meeting and it went really well… we actually had people! 17 showed up I think, which is pretty good for not having a meeting about a year. I was relieved that it wasn’t just me, Silverstr, Wim and Raskal like it has been sometimes in the past. Of course, if

I’m normally pretty impressed with Linux and it’s gains in the desktop, but every once and a while I find something that makes me cringe, and I know if I’m cringing, I know my UI expert buddies foz and engel would be rolling around and screaming in pain. This came up to me under the

Yesterday at work I installed the Ximian Desktop version 2. Aside from a 300 meg download, which crapped out right at the end (but seemed to manage to still recover) it went very nicely. Read below for more.

Been playing with the K Desktop Environment version 3.1 for the last couple of days, and have to say I’m quite impressed. Once I figured out how to change some of the silly shortcuts (ie: non-ctrl+r for reloading a webpage) and got some other stuff going, I’m pretty impressed. I’m still a terminal guy though.

Awk! Classes are over, but exams begin right away! Wish me luck… Random cool Linux site: The #LinuxOS Homepage [archive.org link] Very cool page, I like the Leading the Resistance title.  Good propaganda, and some interesting things, like that MS’s NT for the alpha is only 32bit, and Linux is (of course) full 64bit code.