Pitfalls Of A Release Schedule
I have a problem with Ubuntu Studio. There, I said it. I think that Ubuntu Studio is a wonderful distribution, packed with all the programs needed for my music composing hobby. But, there is a...
View ArticleUbuntu and The Community
Ubuntu is owned by a company and not by the community. This is the statement that a lot of Ubuntu lovers do not seem to understand. The underlined plan of Canonical is to make money, not to make a...
View ArticleWindows Is Still To Blame For Spam
Recently, there was an article that came out that stated that Linux has a higher ratio of spam computers running Linux than Windows. Even though the ratio is higher, to which the ratio is always...
View ArticleUpgrades and Solutions
Let’s face it, upgrading a distribution sucks. In my entire career in Linux, I have had to upgrade my distribution of choice at least once (usually because I’m changing distributions and upgrades are...
View ArticleSoftware Patents
There have been two stories recently that really got my nerve on end. Both of them are dealing with Microsoft. The first is that Microsoft has banded together with a giant group of other technology...
View ArticleDealing With Korean Hackers
One day, at work, I took a look through the logs and noticed that one of our servers was being attacked by a whole bunch of different IP addresses. They were not continuous attacks, really, only...
View ArticleBlocking Script Kiddies
This is a continuation to my previous post on Dealing With Korean Hackers. When I last left off, I started banning all IP addresses with iptables because the mod-rewrite utility in apache was not...
View ArticleOnline Dating Part Two
The last time I posted about this, I talked about the word “fun” and how it is such a bogus term used for what one enjoys doing. This time, I want to go over some of the commonalities found within the...
View ArticleLinux news sites
There are a few Linux News sites that I frequently check out. One day, after reading yet another “Top 5” blog posts, I asked myself, why do I still go here? I am not going to answer that question here,...
View ArticleWildcard Search Strings
I came across this while updating my companies web based sales tool. I had to create lookup files for all of our sales files. The format of the files are as follows. (order number):(account...
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