Ruminations on the Digital Realm


Archive for February, 2007

Ubuntu reaching the Australian Outback

Soon at least. One of my online friends, Claire, is an English and IT teacher in the Australian Outback. She has embarked on a course that will teach her kids a bit about the history of computer gaming with key games from various period. The course outline looks great to begin with and it does [...]

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Another chapter for virtualization

Xen, VMware, Virtual PC, Parallel, Qemu. There is enough going on in the virtualization market. It made me a very happy guy when VMware decided to make VMware Server available for free. The VMware Player is nice, but lacks the ability to create new virtual machines. The server edition is great material and I use [...]

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

So what?

Linus Torvalds doesn’t like Gnome! So what? He recommends Linux users to use KDE instead. Fine. He is entitled to his own opinion. He might have used somewhat more polite language, but even in that sense he is no different from many other Linuxists. But since he is Linus Torvalds the rest of the digital [...]

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

Beta testing Microsoft

I don’t mind using Microsoft software. Really, I don’t. I prefer Linux nowadays and I am looking forward to adding Ubuntu Linux to my toolkit at work (using the free VMware server and the good working relationship with the sysadmin to provide the necessary administrator password ). But you can’t blame Microsoft for being [...]

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

Becoming part of the Ubuntu Herd

With two months to go for the final release of Ubuntu Feisty Fawn it became time to become part to the Herd. Herd 3 to be precise. This morning I started to install Herd 3, while at the same time downloading Herd 4. All out of curiosity of course.
A few days ago Linux.com featured an [...]

Saturday, February 17th, 2007