I just read here and here regarding a move by Microsoft to put the ECMA 334 and 335 specs under the Community Promise. From the Port25 blog: ECMA 334 specifies the form and establishes the interpretation of programs written in the C# programming language, while the ECMA 335 standard defines the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI)… Read More »
Previous to the final release of Ubuntu 9.04 there was a ton of buzz surrounding the new Boot Splash. Personally I don’t see what the big deal is. I am one of those weird people that likes to see the boot output, and have missed it since it was removed. It looks pretty, and I… Read More »
I just wanted to thank everyone who commented or otherwise sent congratulations for the new baby. She really is a joy and I’m glad to see so many people from so many parts of the world sending notes. Thank you. I am back into work this week so I may finally have some time to… Read More »
We are very happy to announce the arrival of our second daughter, Elizabeth, today. She was born early this morning. 9lbs. 7oz (big baby!), 22″ long. She and mother are doing fine and resting.
As I’m sure is the case with the rest of you (particularly if you use Twitter), I’ve been hearing more and more about the Iranian Election and the difficulties the people there are having in getting connectivity outside of the country. Without getting too detailed, it sounds like the incumbent president has cut off internet… Read More »
Recently I asked for some user-contributed content for the site, and while I didn’t get the amount of feedback that I’d like, I did get one good suggestion that I knew I needed to pass on. How to share your internet connection. This tutorial outlines, in a very simple way, how to share your wired… Read More »
I came across a short how-to on the Ubuntu Forums today that I wanted to pass along. I don’t take credit for coming up with these steps. The credit belongs to user dragos240 of the Ubuntu Forums. I figure there have got to be a few of you that are interested in trying this out,… Read More »
For those of you that enjoy the bleeding edge and want to help test the next release of Ubuntu, the second Alpha release of 9.10 is now available. You should be warned that this release is not meant for the faint of heart or production machines. It will very likely break before it is done,… Read More »
This article is part of a series regarding firewalling and network security using the Firewall Builder tool on Ubuntu. This is user-contributed content. If you would like to contribute an article, please see the About page for contact information. Using Built-in Policy Importer in Firewall Builder Author: [email protected] http://www.fwbuilder.org This article continues the series of… Read More »
Recently a friend of mine was talking about starting his own consulting business and it got me thinking about how viable it might be to completely run a small business on free software like Ubuntu. I mean completely run your business on free software, down to the last detail. I don’t mean mostly, but 100% create, manage and… Read More »