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Roundcube: the world's coolest Open Source webmail project?


At Sirius we have recently started using and deploying Roundcube in favour of the tried and tested (but very old) Squirrelmail. Impressed by it's beautiful front-end, ease of use and obvious extensibility, Tom Callway spoke to Till Klampaeckel and Thomas...


Tags: horde/imp, ilohamail, imap, roundcube, squirrelmail, thomas bruederli, till klampaeckel, webmail

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Chrome OS - is the world prepared?


So, was it worth the wait?Google has given us the merest peak at what Chrome OS is going to offer the user and straight away that it's apparent that the talk of how Google would have the clout to take on...


Tags: chrome os, google, microsoft, netbook

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Microsoft's free anti-virus - a friend for free or one that won't leave?


Much to the AV community’s surprise (and in some cases, chagrin) Microsoft’s free-to-download Security Essentials turns out to be half decent, a step up from the ‘why would anybody bother’ mediocrity of Windows Live OneCare, which Microsoft could never make...


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30 years of hurt - 3Com gives up the chase


HP's projected acquisition of 3Com has reawakened a lot of old memories - and raised a lot of questions.3Com is almost a bit-part player in the industry now but there was a time when 3Com was networking - or at...


Tags: 3com, cisco, data centre, hp, networking, procurve

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OSX and OpenLDAP: taming the Leopard


The goals of this blog are to illustrate how to: authenticate Mac OSX Leopard workstations from an existing redundant OpenLDAP infrastructureconfigure Mac OSX Leopard workstations from an existing redundant OpenLDAP infrastructurestore and manage configuration settings on an existing redundant OpenLDAP...


Tags: openldap, osx, workgroup manager

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Karmic Koala polish fixes EPS support issues in Inkscape


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...


Tags: eps, eps2pdf, epstopdf, ghostscript, indesign, inkscape, istockphoto.com, karmic, linux, openoffice, pdf, pstoedit, scribus, svg, tex, texlive-extra-utils, ubuntu

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Sungard's John and Bob: the guys who get it to work


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...


Tags: gigabit, managed service, mpls, network, wan

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Counting the (real) cost


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...


Tags: burton, consolidation, data centres, energy, schneider

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Windows 7 - a computing tax people are willing to pay


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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Microsoft with all to play for


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...


Tags: apple, linux, microsoft, operating system, os, vista, windows 7

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