So for the past couple of weeks I have been doing work at a client’s place of business. This client—like many other small and medium-sized businesses—uses Windows on all of their desktop systems. They have a couple of server boxes that are running GNU/Linux servers, but they are not running GNU/Linux on the desktop at [...]

AllTray is a rather small project—for the moment, there is a single developer working on it (myself), and there aren’t a terribly great number of users, though the users that it does have are most excellent.  For a long time, the users didn’t have the ability to observe the development processes for AllTray, nor did [...]

In 40+ years of computing, there is bound to be software and tools that people are simply not aware of, or have forgotten about, or have moved from the forefront to behind the scenes—there are actually lots of these.  One of the reasons that I watch Freshmeat for software releases is to constantly look for things [...]

I often do not store downloaded tarballs on my drive anymore. I found that I would download them, extract them, play with them, and then remove the generated source directory tree, but never the tarball. Periodically, I would then have to go and clean out the tarballs. Well, I have recently been doing it differently. [...]