Cyber Cynic – Dear me. Just because I recently talked about Windows XP SP3s virtues and vices, some people seem to think Ive turned away from my beloved Linux systems. Nope, Im still a rock-solid Linux desktop user. [...] read more
Operating SystemsSizlopedia – Some days ago the first alpha version of the upcoming version of Ubuntu i.e. Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex was announced by Canonical.
Softpedia has got some good screens of this new version some of which I would like to share with all Linux lovers.
Technically we won’t be getting many new features in Ubuntu 8.10 except for [...] read more
Security Thoughts – Ive been thinking about this for a while but this blog post by Pascal Meunier pretty much sums up my feelings about Virtualisation.Back in the 90s when the Internet was new-ish and just becoming important all the machines running it were Unix boxes. (Maybe not all, but most). And a 386 would typically run DNS, sendmail, telnet (shell accounts), ftp and apache. All on [...] read more
4sysops – For Windows Administrators – Computerworld ran an interesting Computerworld ran an interesting survey about Windows Server 2008. According to these numbers, it seems that Server 2008 adoption might be faster than Vista’s. However, in my view, one has to consider a couple of differences between both operating systems. All in all, I don’t believe that Server 2008 will be more successful than Vista. [...] read more
