Wisdom from the net as collected by Charlie (aka Cyberchuck)
Dec 28th 2006cyberchucktxProject Management & Technical
eproject : SOAS (Software as a Service) Web-Based Project Management. Commercial product, site has many online whitepapers and reference materials. Continue Reading »
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Dec 27th 2006cyberchucktxAudio & Technical
Dec 27th 2006cyberchucktxLINUX & Security & Sysadmin & Technical & Windoze
» Why Windows is less secure than Linux: short TALKback article at ZDNET.COM with two small (yet informative) images showing the calling tree for Windows & LINUX on a typical web request.
Dec 25th 2006cyberchucktxNetworking & Sysadmin & Technical & Web22
WebOS roundup – 10 online operating systems reviewed at franticindustries (web 2.0, social networking, IT technology trends).
Dec 25th 2006cyberchucktxMobile Communications & Technical & Wearables
Forrester Consumer Forum Wearable Computing Concepts from frog design™.
Tribons: sample conceptual product design for a wearable display & communications device.
Dec 24th 2006cyberchucktxOpen Source & Project Management & Technical
Taskjuggler: The Open Source Project Management Software. TaskJuggler is a modern and powerful project management tool. Its new approach to project planning and tracking is far superior to the commonly used Gantt chart editing tools. Continue Reading »
Dec 24th 2006cyberchucktxArt & Education & Media
Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena: These pages demonstrate visual phenomena, and »optical« or »visual illusions«. The latter is more appropriate, because most effects have their basis in the visual pathway, not in the optics of the eye. When I find the time I will expand the explanations, to the degree that these phenomena are really understood; any nice and thoughtful comment welcome.
Dec 24th 2006cyberchucktxMarketplace & Misc & Social Software & Technical
Open-ILS.org: Home of the Evergreen ILS (Integrated Library System) Continue Reading »
Dec 24th 2006cyberchucktxMacintosh & Technical & Virtualization
Fusion: VMWARE on Mac OSX (beta).
Finally!
From the press release:
The new VMware desktop product for the Mac, codenamed Fusion, allows Intel-based Macs to run x86 operating systems, such as Windows, Linux, NetWare and Solaris, in virtual machines at the same time as Mac OS X. It is built on VMware’s rock-solid and advanced desktop virtualization platform that is used by over four million users today.
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Dec 24th 2006cyberchucktxHumanist & Other Religions & Philosophy
Without Gods: towards a history of disbelief.
“The blog I am writing here, with the connivance of The Institute for the Future of the Book, is an experiment. Our thought is that my book on the history of atheism (eventually to be published by Carroll and Graf) will benefit from an online discussion as the book is being written.” Continue Reading »
Dec 23rd 2006cyberchucktxOpen Source & Politics & Technical & Technical3
BadVista.org: FSF launches campaign against Microsoft Vista. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today launched BadVista.org, a campaign with a twofold mission of exposing the harms inflicted on computer users by the new Microsoft Windows Vista and promoting free software alternatives that respect users’ security and privacy rights.
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Dec 21st 2006cyberchucktxDisaster Recovery & Open Source & Sysadmin & Technical
Bacula: the Network Backup Tool for Linux, Unix, and Windows. “It comes by night and sucks the vital essence from your computers”. Continue Reading »
Dec 20th 2006cyberchucktxMarketplace & Media & Online & Open Source & Programming & Science & Tech
open… (opendotdotdot) : “open source, open genomics, open content”- personal blog about the Open Source movement. Continue Reading »
Dec 20th 2006cyberchucktxMarketplace & Networking & Security & Sysadmin & Technical & Web22
Preventing Spam: Bulletproof Solutions at “Smashing Magazine”. EXCELLENT collection of spam handling solutions. Continue Reading »
Dec 18th 2006cyberchucktxLINUX & Marketplace & Misc & Mobile Communications & Technical
PortableApps Suite: at PortableApps.com – Portable software for USB drives.
“your computer, without the computer™
PortableApps Suite™ is a collection of portable apps including a web browser, email client, office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, sudoku game, backup utility and integrated menu, all preconfigured to work portably. Just drop it on your portable device and you’re ready to go. Continue Reading »
Dec 18th 2006cyberchucktxMacintosh & Solaris & Sysadmin & Technical
ZFS: the last word in file systems. from SUN. “The breakthrough file system in Solaris 10 delivers virtually unlimited capacity, provable data integrity, and near-zero administration.” Also to be included (rumor) in MacOSX Leopard(!) and to be used by Time Machine (this is a Quicktime preview), the new backup framework coming in Leopard (Quicktime Previews and description).
Dec 18th 2006cyberchucktxLINUX & Networking & Open Source & Security & Technical
VTun – Virtual Tunnels over TCP/IP networks:
The easiest way to create Virtual Tunnels over TCP/IP networks with traffic shaping, compression and encryption. (Sourceforge Project)
Dec 18th 2006cyberchucktxJavascript & Programming & Security & Sysadmin & Technical
Spam-me-not: A simple anti-spam email link obfuscator in JavaScript for your webpages, by Andreas Neudecker. Continue Reading »
Dec 16th 2006cyberchucktxLINUX & Open Source & Sysadmin & Technical
Partimage: open source equivalent of GHOST. Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX utility which saves partitions in many formats (see below) to an image file. Continue Reading »
Dec 16th 2006cyberchucktxLINUX & Open Source & Technical & Video
MythDora 3.0: A MythTV 0.20 Distribution @ MythPVR.com. Here is a walk through of the entire installation process, including screenshots and a screencast. Continue Reading »