This site is dedicated to Linux, OpenSource, Software, Hardware, and pretty much anything IT related.
I am using this site as a medium to comment on things in the IT world, as well as write down tips and tricks that might be helpful.
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
