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Like everybody else I’ve seen all the press around the iPad.  Apple in general is pretty good at making simple clean systems.  I use the iPhone and love it, the iPad for the most part seems like a big iPhone.  I am getting older so the bigger screen would be nice, but beyond that what [...]

I’ve recently started using Rackspace for personal use.  For the Linux user this ROCKS!!  But if you need a Windows systems your SOL for now.
First of all “It’s cheap!!”.  This has to be the cheapest commercial (employs more than one guy in a basement) service I’ve used.  You can get a base system for about [...]

“Cloud Computing” is a new buzz word floating around the computer world. The basic idea is you worry only about your OS or your application, not the hardware.
In my case I wanted something similar to a co-located server, but I didn’t want to worry about hardware anymore. There are lots of Cloud services [...]

I just started a new job and they offered me a choice of a Mac or a PC. I’ve always been too cheap to buy one myself so I was excited to get one for work to give it a try. I’ve had this new MacBook for a couple months now and just [...]

This was a article I wrote in 2004 to explain why I liked the idea of using Open Source programs for a Utah Voting System.
Keith Pettit on Open Source software
“The basic idea behind open source is very simple: When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for software, the software evolves. People improve [...]

Ok, it’s a corny title. But I had a new project that was primarily a commandline (CLI) application, but also had GUI components. I also needed this to be able to work in Linux and Windows. PHP just doesn’t do the trick for these kind of things.
I’ve got about 8 years of LAMP type programming [...]

VirtualBox is a free GPL virtual machine system that is comparable to VMWare. The interface and usage will be familar to VMWare. Initial look at performance seems comparable.
According to their website “VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer
for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is
now the only professional-quality virtualization solution [...]

Shoutcast has been around for awhile and it’s a great service. They are
basically a listing service for free internet radio streams. Shoutcast doesn’t
provide the music, they just list the services that do.
When you
go to their website it defaults by listing the top stations, but you
can also search for particular genre or a specific station. They [...]

For my first blog post ever on blogspot I decided to try the ScribFire Firefox add-on.
Overall
I’ve been looking for a Blog service and tool that I could use from
Linux and Windows that would allow me to get my thoughts out in a
minimum amount of technical effort. There are, of course tons of tools
out there. But [...]