| Subcategories: | Page 1 of 11. The View from Mudsock Heights: Let Us One Final Time Pay Homage to the Great Yellow GodBy Dennis E. Powell | Feb 1, 2012 at 23:58:2Let us have a moment of silence for the Eastman Kodak Company. I’m serious. “The Great Yellow Father,” as it used to be called in the photography press (when there was a photography press), has filed for bankruptcy. RHEL 6 for the Clueless: the Mail ServerBy Ed Hurst | Jan 20, 2012 at 0:38:52If you are running RHEL, you are already running a mail server. It’s installed by default and setup to run. Of course, it only delivers mail locally, and only from sources within your own machine. Right now, there are no sources, so there is no mail. But the server is running. The Gifts of Christmas: the Procrastinator’s Guide to Android SmartphonesBy Timothy R. Butler | Dec 21, 2011 at 22:55:45In our general smartphone guide, we laid out the basic smartphone situation and then looked at Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 and Apple’s iOS. In this piece we move on to a sampling of Android phones available this holiday season. Whether you are looking to give someone an Android handset for Christmas, or are thinking about picking one up for yourself, these contenders cover a good deal of the Android landscape this season, ranging from the impressively affordable AT&T Impulse 4G to Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S II. The Gifts of Christmas: the Procrastinator’s Guide to SmartphonesBy Timothy R. Butler | Dec 21, 2011 at 20:21:0Trying to pick out a smartphone for someone for Christmas is a difficult task. There are now dozens of potential contenders, priced from free to hundreds of dollars. How can you pick out one that will delight your recipient and serve him or her well for years to come? OFB Labs has thoroughly tested ten of the most recent smartphone offerings from AT&T, Sprint and Verizon to help you sort out which are best for your gift giving this year – or for picking up as a gift to yourself with some Christmas money. RHEL 6 for the Clueless: Samba File SharingBy Ed Hurst | Nov 26, 2011 at 1:53:49In my explorations with RHEL 6, we have come a long way towards a useful computing environment. One piece we have not taken time to explore much, however, is one of the most important for many users: file sharing. If you intend using your RHEL machine to serve files amongst Windows machines, one of the first things you should consider is using Samba. The Gifts of Christmas 2011: The Tablet GuideBy Timothy R. Butler | Nov 11, 2011 at 21:19:28With the Kindle Fire’s impending release adding yet another interesting dimension to the tablet market, selecting a tablet to give as a gift this season has become all the more complicated. More than likely, Amazon’s entry will dramatically change the playing field, but other tablets continue to have significant merits that make them worthy of gifting consideration this year. We look at the cream of the crop of those other tablets in light of the new Kindle, below. The View from Mudsock Heights: The Wonderful, Tiny, Quirky Tablet Computer that Has Won My HeartBy Dennis E. Powell | Oct 21, 2011 at 8:57:35If one were to do a survey of the next tablet computer from a major manufacturer likely to disappear — the HP TouchPad now being gone — the near-unanimous choice would very likely be Research In Motion’s Blackberry Playbook. And that’s too bad. The little 7-inch Playbook is a really cool machine, a Mercedes to HP’s Ford F-150. Freedom, Apple and Richard StallmanBy Timothy R. Butler | Oct 14, 2011 at 22:36:9When news broke of Steve Jobs’s death, their was an outpouring of sadness from both those who knew the man and those of us who knew only the products his farsighted perfectionism had helped to mold. Amidst the mourning over a technology pioneer and visionary, there was a contrary opinion from another technology pioneer and visionary known for his nearly 30 year long campaign against proprietary software. Richard Stallman was glad Jobs would not be able to create any more “jails” to lock people in. The View from Mudsock Heights: The Bargain-Basement HP TouchPad and How to Make It Better Even NowBy Dennis E. Powell | Oct 5, 2011 at 20:48:43Don’t it always seem to go: you don’t know what you want until it’s marked down to a fraction of its retail price and there is a brief but vast buying frenzy. Yes, I was drawn to think of what Joni Mitchell ought to have written when, a few weeks ago, I discovered that my life would never be complete until I had one of the discontinued Hewlett Packard TouchPad tablet machines. Java on Red Hat Enterprise LinuxBy Ed Hurst | Sep 27, 2011 at 23:56:57The bundled Open Java on RHEL is okay. It’s also painfully slow, particularly compared to the competition. Most people still call it Sun Java, though it’s now owned by Oracle. Because we have installed the development packages, we have the Open JDK (Java Development Kit) so we’ll have to replace it with Oracle’s JDK for Linux. This is so much faster, there simply is no comparison, at least on desktop applications. That would be things like Jedit (a java-based text editor), the Bible Desktop or "JSword" (java version of Crosswire's Sword Project) and any number of java games. |
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