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…

  Posted on Wed 26 Oct 2005 (439 reads) Suse 10 review I have been a Linux user for almost two years now. I think it is about time I put together a review of my favorite distribution. Suse 10.0 was released to the world on October 6th. I got…

I posted this on Usenet a while back. It is a collection of links to various “newbie” Linux sites. I hope it is helpful. Desktop Linux dot com – http://www.desktoplinux.com/ – this site has somegood informaiton for beginners. Tux Magazine – http://www.tuxmagazine.com/ – this was supposed to be aprint magazine, but turned into a…

Comparing Database Counts Recently my company did an upgrade of a vendor-supplied product from one version to another. The new version includes some schema changes to the database. Just to be safe, we decided it prudent to create a new database on our SQL Server 2000 system and use the…

10 Reasons to Switch to Linux 1. It Doesn’t Crash  Linux has been time-proven to be a reliable operating system. Although the desktop is not a new place for Linux, most Linux-based systems have been used as servers and embedded systems. High-visibility Web sites such as Google use Linux-based systems,…

Introduction I’ve been a Windows user for years. I’ll admit it. At the time of this writing, I’m still fairly new to Linux. Being used to Windows, I regularly launch my government’s time service and check my computer clock to see if it is accurate. Generally it is off by a few…

How to setup Apache, Java, and Tomcat on a Windows XP system. Recently I have been tasked with setting up an application based almost entirely on Java Server Pages. The application can run under either Websphere , BEA , or Apache/Tomcat. Being as frugal as possible, I thought it would be a good idea to test…

How to setup Apache, Java, and Tomcat on a Windows XP system. Recently I have been tasked with setting up an application based almost entirely on Java Server Pages. The application can run under either Websphere , BEA , or Apache/Tomcat. Being as frugal as possible, I thought it would be a good idea to test…