Monthly Archives: June 2006

Ohio LinuxFest call for speakers

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 6/22/2006
The deadline is rapidly approaching -- the Ohio LinuxFest folks are looking for speakers for this year's OLF. I went last year and had a blast, and I fully expect this year's to be even better. If you know a lot about Linux and open source, I would encourage you to submit a presentation. Deadline [...]
Posted in Linux, Open Source, Writing | Leave a comment

Tips for new Ubuntu users

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 6/21/2006
Since Dapper is no doubt attracting a whole bunch of new Ubuntu users, I thought it'd be a good idea to write up a piece addressing some common new user questions. It's up on Linux.com now, if you have any questions about Ubuntu, have a look and see if it helps out any.
Posted in Articles, Linux, Open Source, Writing | Leave a comment

Meaningless

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 6/19/2006
This has already been touched on, but I figure it's worth saying again: Saying that something is "open source based" is pretty much meaningless. I'm seeing this term a lot in press releases, and I just want to clarify -- this doesn't buy you any interest from open source pubs. Open source based could mean [...]
Posted in Open Source, PR and marketing | Leave a comment

A look at Flock

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 6/16/2006
I have a review of the Flock beta (0.7) up on NewsForge this afternoon. It's Friday, I know, but don't let that stop you from heading over and giving it a quick read. I tested Flock on Ubuntu Linux -- AMD64 and x86 -- and was happily surprised to how well it works, particularly on [...]
Posted in Articles, Linux, Open Source, Writing | Leave a comment

GNOME's Women's Summer Outreach Program

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 6/16/2006
This is some interesting stuff, the GNOME project is trying to bring more women into the project (and free software development in general) by hosting the first Women's Summer Outreach Program (WSOP). This was spurred on by the fact that GNOME received 181 applications for the Google Summer of Code -- not a single application from [...]
Posted in Articles, Linux, Open Source, Writing | Leave a comment

Synergy, one mouse and keyboard for all your computers

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 6/15/2006
I have an article up on Linux.com today, "Synergy: One keyboard (and mouse) to rule them all," that looks at using the Synergy software as kind of a software KVM -- minus the M, anyway. I get a great deal of use out of Synergy now -- I use it to connect my main and [...]
Posted in Articles, Open Source, Writing | Leave a comment

Creating VMware images with VMware player

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 6/14/2006
I have a short article up on NewsForge today about creating VMware images using VMware Player. This might be useful if you don't have the money for VMware Workstation, and don't feel like messing with a full-blown VMware Server install. For me, it was mostly just fun to figure out how to do it, and I [...]
Posted in Articles, Linux, Open Source, Writing | 2 Comments

  • Categories

  • Archives