It recycles my yim. Whatelse does it do? Why?
Each night, something happens on the net connection
Sunday, February 19, 2006
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Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) is a winner!
Friday, February 17, 2006Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) is a winner!
http://www.technologyrescue.com/welcome.html
Obsolete computers anchored by a Linux server is a cost effective winner.
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Asterix article makes me cautious about experiment
Friday, February 17, 2006http://mobile.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/02/09/1727256&from=rss
Quote:
Asterisk is free software that lets you create a fully functional, easily customizable, private branch exchange (PBX). Businesses like Asterisk because they can save money by using it, and because it is open source, they can add functionality to it easily and inexpensively. Asterisk is also becoming popular with home office users — so much so that it spawned a new project called Asterisk@Home, which released its 1.0 version last year. Now there’s even a version of Asterisk that runs on OpenWrt, a Linux distribution designed to run on your wireless router (see “OpenWrt nears prime time”). I found it to be worthwhile, but I wouldn’t depend on it for my home office.
Now that doesn’t inspire confidence. I’m not that much of a hero to risk failure. Additionally, I really want Asterix for the great PBX features. Maybe I need to go for a big implementation of Asterix on a spare box.
Hmmm?!?!
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ALLWAYSYNC trial ends; deleted
Friday, February 17, 2006Well, despite the advertisement that says “free for personal use”, I find that there is an interesting definition of “personal” use. My loveable luggable needs to disgourge its secrets each night to my home desktop via the wireless lan. Being the typical lazy guy, and after missing a few files, I thought let me consider a free utility for this duty. Google popped AllWaySync, so I looked at it first. It appeared to work ok. Although it did arm wrestle with outlook over who culd lock the pst file. It’s huge. And, it was the reason, I really got religion about backups when I had to spend the better part of a day kowtowing to redmond and reinputting all my email settings manually into LookOut when it barfed them into the bit bucket. I’m not sure I really ever really recovered from that episode. It convinces me more to leave the microsoft fold when vista comes along. Any way, allwaysync has a limit to the number of files and number of bytes you use for free. It says somehting nasty like you’re not a personal user. I am too. So off to the bit bucket with it and one to Karen’s Replicator.
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(web, word, or excel) 2 PDF (for free)
Thursday, February 16, 2006
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TECHNOLOGY: Old Software “Serious Creativity”
Wednesday, February 15, 2006Interesting problem. Some old software from the WIN95 days won’t install on XP. I’ve been reinstalling it as I move from machine to machine. It has in the past. Why not now? It is particualarly agravating when I spend my scarce person technology dollars on something and it ages out. I can understand hardware failure, but software? Now I am sure they will sell me a replacement for 75$ but why should I. I bought it. Whatever it was! Last time I got screwed like this was KeeBoo. Oh well live and learn. BTW I sent them an email. Let’s see what happens.
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A dumb little distraction
Wednesday, February 15, 2006http://www.rnmap.com/smack-the-penguin.php
Sometimes you just feel like whacking something!
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What do I hope to get out of PERSPECTIVE?
Monday, February 13, 2006My objectives are to get a running wiki up on my luggable and my worktop.
Both have to be true wikis even though they may not be always online since I’ll be hosting them on notebooks.
I have to also remember that I have all sort of obsolete hardware that might be able to be brought up in support. The problem is that wireless router at home and the firewalls at work.
Assuming that I could get the PERSPECTIVE running “right”, (It works; the problems are mine.) then something might appear to be “do-able”.
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Playing with the PERSPECTIVE wiki
Monday, February 13, 2006Following up my failed test, attempting to have Frenchy in NC access and update the wiki, I figured I try again on the same subnet. Addressing it as http://192.168.1.100 from 101 works. Hmm. On the morrow, I’ll repeat the test at work and see if it works across the dirty and clean networks. If that works or doesn’t work, put the luggable up on the VWBBie and try again. If both work, I’m befuddled. If either works, I’m befuddle. If neither works, then at least it’s consistent results. Arghh!
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Why am I interested in wikis?
Saturday, February 11, 2006A wiki is the essence of collaboration. If I put all my thinking in a wiki and I give others access to it, then together we can build on it. You would enter your comments or unique pages. Over time, it becomes the logical addition of all our collaborations.
The idea of a wiki has many implementations. Some free; some pay. Most on Linux; a few on Windoze; one on Mac; a couple that are platform agonistic. My goal is to have a free wiki running here at home to allow collaboration on
my projects. If I can do it, it becomes one of my marketable skills!
Thanks for the help. It really did work from my desk at work; the same setup as we tried! And, of course, it works from home here, but that’s not a real test because it was on the same subnet. It’s only usefull if it can be hosted to the internet globally.
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