Monthly Archives: February 2006

Master's degree in Linux

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/15/2006
Well, looks like it's time for me to pack up and move to Australia, so I can get a Master's degree in Linux: Australia's Charles Sturt University will next month kick off the world's first certified masters degree in Linux, the open source computer operating system. Writing about and working with Linux is nice, because I'm always [...]
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Using MultiTail

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/13/2006
The tail utility is a staple of systems administration work, but MultiTail is even better. I've written up a short intro to MultiTail on Linux.com. If you do any regular sys admin work, take a look at MultiTail to see what it's capable of.
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Xgl back in X.org development

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/7/2006
Novell announced today that they're contributing Xgl enhancements and the Compiz composition manager to X.org. I wrote up a brief story on the announcement, and reactions from Aaron Seigo, for NewsForge.com. Really, it seems there are two stories here -- both good news. First, Xgl stands a chance of doing really good things for the Linux [...]
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Stealing focus

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/5/2006
The next time the UI folks are sitting around discussing "usability," I'd like to ask that they deal with one of my pet-peeves -- specifically, applications that steal focus from the active application. This is something that's gotten much better in recent years, but it still happens. For example, today, Firefox decided its little informational [...]
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