Nice article by whurley […] You buy the shovel, but you want the hole. It’s amazing how easy it is to forget that software is just a tool. Companies purchase software so their employees can execute specific tasks. You don’t need a laser-guided shovel with built-in GPS navigation to dig your hole. A plain ol’ …
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Video: Ubuntu 8.10 – Test (3:07) The ne Ubuntu release Intrepid Ibex has been released on time. I really like the way it works. The clip has been recorded by golem.de and shows the GNOME UI which is used by Ubuntu. I had time to install the Kubuntu derivate myself. Itcomes with a fully integrated …
Today the OOo Community officaly released their latest GA 3.0. At the moment their servers suffer hard, because too many people want to get this great piece of software. But what is OOo 3.0 (oooh… so many Os ;) ) all about: Native Mac OS X Aqua support -> finally a great Office Suit for …
Really interesting clips from Mozilla Labs… on vimeo Aurora project which is comparable to KDE4 actions, zooming user interface ect. Part 1 Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo. Part 2 Aurora (Part 2) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo. Part 3 Aurora (Part 3) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo. Part 4 Aurora (Part 4) …
Once a year InfoWorld releases a top ten list of open source applications in different areas. Because I’m really interested in enterprise applications… here is the list: Content-Management: Alfresco ERP: Compiere Projekt-Management: dotProject Application Monitoring: Hyperic HQ Business-Process-Management: Intalio BPMS Reporting: JasperReports Enterprise Portal: Liferay Portal E-Commerce: Magento eCommerce Business Intelligence: Pentaho Open BI Suite …
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… now serving all common platforms Team-XBMC is proud to announce the first cross-platform Beta version of XBMC media center for Linux, Mac OS X (Leopard and Tiger), Windows, and Xbox, in preparation for the upcoming stable release of XBMC, code named ‘Atlantis’. There are three important news items associated with this release: 1. The …
I’m currently migrating my fathers office. I’m using Zimbra and Samba to get a Exchange + Active Directory like environment. The following clip is a good demo: Zimbra + Samba Integration Currently everything works as supposed to: Central Login and Userdatabase (via Zimbra LDAP) Samba as Primary Domain Controller and WINS Server Roaming Profiles, SSO …
If you ever wanted to check out what KDE 4 is all about. Then you have to try the following. Get the VMWare Server and create a new VM with 512 MB of Ram and approx. 10 Gb of HDD space. You also need to get the Ubuntu JeOS (JeOS = Just enough Operating System …
Plex is a Mac OS X based port/fork of XBMC. Here is a smal video showing the great Aeon Skin.
Boxee is the second Speaker (approx. 13th minute) …
