Vim != usability plus a bit of Unix humour

I came across this link today..the title of it says –15 Years of Vi + 5 years of Vim and still learning maybe it’s my sick sense of humour but I like it plus it’s a great vim resource I need to keep track of. The question is, is it a usability issue or is …

Nomachine NX – Desktop Sharing & Shadowing now available.

Wow.. a great week it has been in the enterprise Linux world. Last week, we had: Mindquarry 1.1 released TinyERP released a web client and a new version OpenBravo 2.30 released and while it’s not truly open source, NoMachine released V3 of their NX server and finally, they have introduced desktop sharing and session shadowing …

VMware Server Serial Catch 22

I got a bit tired of recompiling vmware each time Ubuntu upgraded the kernel, so I decided to move to Ubuntu’s Vmware packe.. so I uninstalled my copy and installed from the repos.. The only problem is it asked me for the serial number which were stored in my email and I use imap, and …

Open Source Collaboration – Part 2 – A day with Mindquarry

In my last post, I wrote about my search for an OSS (compatible) collaboration product and how I came across three contenders. Mindquarry O3Spaces PengYou I took a better look at the demos for PengYou and realised that it’s main functions are: Webdav server Very nice file manager for the webdav server Plugin for OpenOffice …

Tilda – The Yakuake terminal equivalent for Gnome

I finally discovered there was an answer to my long, lost friend Yakuake that I gave up when I moved from KDE to Gnome. Katapult, of course was easily replaced by Deskbar but I couldn’t find a Yakuake replacement until now. The answer, as in the title of the post, is “Tilda” Why are Yakuake …

Open Source Sharepoint Alternatives – Remote Collaboration

I originally titled this article “Open Source Collaboration – Stumbling upon Open Source Gems” but I know that I have been searching around using the current title’s keywords, so I thought it would be worthy to use it. I’ve been in discussion with David Lee from Open Source Green Vehicle about using MediaWiki as the …

SQLyog Community running under Wine with Feisty Fawn theme

In one of my previous posts, I outlined using VMware as a platform for web development. I’ll just outline some of the advantages of that: Developing / adding content locally into Joomla / Zen-cart is much faster than remotely You always have a backup copy if your webhost dies Once you get more than 2-3 …

Multiple User Workstations – with full 3D graphics capabilities

Mostly for my own reference – a collection of links for Software / Hardware setups for multiheaded (as opposed to headless) servers. ThinSoft Omni TS Groovix Linux Console Userful Kood Terminal Server Patch for Windows XP Technorati Tags: multiuser workstations, linux Powered by ScribeFire.