Of the many controversies in free software, this is one that I have long found to be interesting.  People seem to define things in different ways, which leads to confusion (and arguing) when one person calls a system a "GNU/Linux" system and the next calls it just the "Linux" system.  Too often, I have found people saying "You [...]

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 [...]

Windows 7 Sins.  It is the name of a campaign and Web site launched by the Free Software Foundation in a misguided (IMHO) attempt to publicize some of the issues in software choice.  Right from the start and without reading a word on the Web site, it says two things very strongly: Windows 7 commits [...]

Yeah, alright.  Those are words I would never have thought I’d see in a title in a blog post, “thanks to Microsoft.”  But, it is true.  Microsoft is adding C# and the CLI to the list of technologies that it promises it will not sue for.  This is Microsoft’s “Community Promise”, which means that to [...]

So, one of the things that I have wanted to do for a long time is setup the network at home such that it could become easier for us to use, and for me to manage. For some time now, Kerberos, LDAP, and NFSv4 is a combination of things that I have wanted to get [...]

This post is a bit of a “brain dump” of sorts for some thoughts that I have as to replacing AllTray with a more versatile, powerful, and robust tool to handle various needs of users when it comes to taking applications and docking them to the system tray. Why? I’ve used AllTray for a long [...]