The requirement for a new brochure last week got me tackling one of those periodic (and in my case instantly forgettable) gotchas - how to do I import EPS images into Inkscape? I’ve been using Ubuntu Linux for years but...
November 2, 2009 11:18 AM
The requirement for a new brochure last week got me tackling one of those periodic (and in my case instantly forgettable) gotchas - how to do I import EPS images into Inkscape? I’ve been using Ubuntu Linux for years but...
November 1, 2009 8:10 PM
Last night I spent a delightful two-and-a-half hours on the phone. And this despite the fact that: (a) it was Saturday night; and (b) the call started at 10pm which meant I was sitting at my desk instead of down...
October 27, 2009 8:56 AM
Energy efficiency - that's the name of the game.Every company I meet these days drops energy efficiency (or power efficiency - the terms seem to be interchangeable, suggesting that rather a large number of people in the IT business skipped...
October 23, 2009 10:10 AM
by John E. Dunn
In the Internet age, operating systems are made little by little, update by update. So why the fuss about Windows 7 upgrade which comes on a DVD inside a cardboard box?Every other bit of software feels like a choice, but...
October 23, 2009 7:57 AM
It's been a day that the industry has waited for for some time: Windows 7 launch day. It seems that it wasn't long ago that commentators were asking whether Vista would be Microsoft's last operating system - we all know how...
October 19, 2009 5:36 PM
No-one derives pleasure from seeing someone lose a job but there must have been a few smiles around the software community when it was reported that SCO president and CEO Darl McBride had got the boot from SCO.The news came...
October 16, 2009 3:32 PM
by John E. Dunn
The WEP encryption standard fell first in the war against wireless insecurity, discredited by simple hacks. Now, with the arrival of high-speed wireless technology in the form of 802.11n, it is WPA's turn to feel the chill of obsolescence. The...
October 16, 2009 9:29 AM
In the build up to the release of a series of benchmarking tests for network monitoring / management applications based on Open Source technologies, Tom Callway speaks to Tarus Balog, the CEO of the OpenNMS Group and current maintainer of...
October 11, 2009 4:06 PM
by John E. Dunn
No application better typifies the ubiquity of ‘part-time software' than Acrobat Reader. Everyone uses it at some point, but very few use it every day. And that's where the danger starts.It's suffered a consistent flow of vulnerabilities in recent times,...
October 7, 2009 10:12 AM
An enterprise thrives or fails according to how well it does what it does. That much is, or should be, obvious. Inevitably, as they grow processes are put in place which seek to improve efficiency. In recent years with essentially...
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This blog includes contributions from engineers and members of the technical marketing team at Sirius Corporation plc. Topics cover Open Source projects like PostgreSQL, J2EE, Cyrus, OpenLDAP, Samba, Debian GNU/Linux, Plone/Zope, Drupal, Alfresco and much more.
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It's been a day that the industry has waited for for some time: Windows 7 launch day. It seems that it wasn't long ago that commentators were asking whether Vista would be Microsoft's last operating system - we all know how...
Energy efficiency - that's the name of the game.Every company I meet these days drops energy efficiency (or power efficiency - the terms seem to be interchangeable, suggesting that rather a large number of people in the IT business skipped...
No-one derives pleasure from seeing someone lose a job but there must have been a few smiles around the software community when it was reported that SCO president and CEO Darl McBride had got the boot from SCO.The news came...
Last night I spent a delightful two-and-a-half hours on the phone. And this despite the fact that: (a) it was Saturday night; and (b) the call started at 10pm which meant I was sitting at my desk instead of down...
In the build up to the release of a series of benchmarking tests for network monitoring / management applications based on Open Source technologies, Tom Callway speaks to Tarus Balog, the CEO of the OpenNMS Group and current maintainer of...
In the Internet age, operating systems are made little by little, update by update. So why the fuss about Windows 7 upgrade which comes on a DVD inside a cardboard box?Every other bit of software feels like a choice, but...
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