Jul 06 2008
You must read this article by Richard Stallman on the BCC News website about Bill Gates retirement (BBC article). Richard Stallman is the founder of the Free Software Foundation and from the article you can see that he sees Microsoft as and Bill Gates as Dark Vader.
I agree with his argument about the Microsoft Tax [...]
Jun 22 2008
In the past I have tried a number of Linux distributions. All those reviews ended with the feeling; “nice for a geek but I don’t think the rest of world wants to go back to the commandline and non consistent GUI’s”. Linux has gone a long way since then and now that Novell is claiming [...]
Mar 15 2008
In the last three I’ve updated some important software I use and I would like to tell you about it.
I have updated:
My desktop OS from Windows XP to Windows Vista,
Wordpress from version 2.0.11 to 2.3.3,
Joomla from PHP-Nuke 7.6 to Joomla version 1.5.1.
Vista upgrade.
Last year in december I decided to upgrade my desktop computer OS to Windows [...]
Jan 03 2008
You have got to read this! [link to document]
Jaron Lanier states that the open-source model will hold back radical, unique and one of a kind new designs. As an examples he uses Linux with it’s many distribution versions, the iPhone as a product and the scientific practice of doing research and publishing your result at [...]
Jun 03 2006
Recently I moved one of my sites from PHPnuke to Mambo. I did not know whether I made the right move and instead of Mambo I should have moved to Joomla as it is a split off of the Mambo CMS.
The last couple of weeks I have been looking at the development around both CMS’s. [...]
May 28 2006
So, I finally made the decision and moved one of my websites from PHPnuke to Mambo [link].
I have all the basic functionality and kept most of the data and users from the old site. I’m pleased with it.
How did I do it?
First I did some research on the functionality of Mambo and Joomla. How easy [...]
Dec 05 2005
Please read this and tell me if you get it?
http://www.fsffrance.org/news/article2005-11-25.en.html
Aug 16 2005
I found a possible Skype killer application; Gizmo. (http://www.gizmoproject.com/index.html).
Gizmo is a free VOIP application which is based on the open protocol
standard SIP.
Why is this important, isn’t Skype the new standard? No, Skype is the hype and nobody has bothered to look under the bonnet. Skype is a locked down box using a propriety protocol and [...]