Introduction I telecommute at least one day every two weeks and need access to my corporate network. Since we use a Cisco VPN at my office, I have been using the Cisco client to connect. However, after a recent kernel upgrade, I noticed that I got the following message when…

It occurred to me recently that I’ve now been using Linux in one form or another for fifteen years. Thanks to the power of Google, one of my early posts to USENET about getting a Linux-based office program to sync with my Palm Pilot PDA is still lurking…. https://groups.google.com/forum/?nomobile=true#!original/staroffice.com.support.install.linux/vLu-5B6FBwg/m8quB_SYjoEJ Here…

As I’ve mentioned previously, the trend in information technology design has been for a shift from desktop computing to mobile computing. While many things are still done better at a desk with a full-size keyboard. This post, for example, was produced at my home desk on my laptop. I recently noticed…

xhttps://www.inc.com/magazine/201404/jason-fried/do-not-overdesign-your-website.html?cid=sf01001 Great short article on why it is sometimes better to keep things simple. I’ve always been in favor of simplistic design for web sites – one of my pet peeves has always been having to wade through the cluttered mess I find on many sites. As seen in this…

Microsoft has just released the source for Singularity. This is the up-and-coming .NET based operating system. I downloaded and compiled it just for fun. Wonder if it runs on Linux? 🙂

After exhaustive study, I have obtained a copy of the Windows Vista Kernel Source code. It appears that Microsoft has moved to utilizing more of the .net environment to handle kernel events. Here is the kernel386 source code: using genuineadvantage;using propriatery.codecs;using os2.core.modules;using vms.core.modules;using sun.java.core.libraries;using apple.macintosh.gui;using Win31.api.thunk; public class kernel386 {public…

Just this weekend, Novell released OpenSUSE 10.1 to the world. It was a little late, but we were still very excited. This is my initial review of the product. The Operating System – now released under the OpenSUSE name – decends from the SuSE distribution of Linux. Novell – who…

Introduction For those of you who know me, you are aware that I mostly use Linux (SuSE) at home on my desktop. I refuse to load Windows XP on my machine, and I only run Windows 2000 when necessary to perform video editing. Now, when I am in Windows 2000,…

Okay, you’ve setup your SUSE Linux system and are ready to use it. Suddenly you’re on a website with something you wish to comment on and you want to send an email. You click on that Contact Us link and…. …nothing happens.  What’s up? Well, your browser needs to know how to…