Citrix has released Xenclient. A hypervisor designed to run on Laptops. There’s some excellent arguments for doing so in a corporate environment. I just read a nice, concise overview of Xenclient at Standalone Sysadmin
Category Archives: Cross-Platform
USB Redirection for Remote Desktop & Virtual Desktop Implementation
No it’s not open source but it is available for both Linux and Windows. IncentivesPro make a product I recently used for a Virtual Desktop Thin Client Implementation. That is USB Redirection for Remote Desktop. It uses a proprietary client/server and so I used Windows XP embedded thin clients to redirect specialised USB Thermal Laser …
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An Open Source PDF Editor for Windows, Mac & Linux
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Interesting OSS links: Skype for Asterix / Wavemaker / AccountLabPlus
Haven’t had much time to go into detail with these but I think it’s worthy to take note of them Skype for Asterisk has been released at last. A new Skype for Linux Beta 2.1.047 has been released which fixes CPU problems with new PulseAudio and works brilliantly and also adds SMS support. Also, I …
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Linux Chromium now supports Flash
Chromium is the open source version of Google Chrome for Linux. It’s still in alpha stage but it’s been very stable for me. The biggest downside is lack of Flash support for things like Google Analytics and Youtube. For Ubuntu, install Chromium like so: echo “deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main #chromium-browser” > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/chromium.list sudo apt-key adv …
How to type a degree symbol in Linux
Today, I came across a document where I had to type a degree symbol in Linux. Thanks to this post at Arch Linux Forums, it was painless to find out how. So here it is: In windows, apparently you hold down Alt+0176. Linux is different and to achieve the same, hold down Ctrl+Shift and type …
Easy DVD Authoring in Linux thanks to Wine and DVD Flick
I haven’t spent much time with Video editing / DVD authoring on either Linux or Windows. Mostly because I don’t watch much video except for a wierd philia for watching Cop Chases on Youtube or at the other end of the spectrum, watching the extremely interesting TedTalks using Miro or Google Tech Talks. Anyway, my …
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Open Source Web Design and Development Tools – Inkscape and Kompozer
I have been using Linux on the desktop part-time for nearly 6 years now and full-time for 3 years. My web development experience began using Macromedia’s tools and when I migrated to Linux, I took them with me with the help of the Wine project to run them under Linux. The majority of the functionality …
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A Quick List of Personal and Small business time tracking apps
My list of different time tracking / logging applications: Application Price / License Unique Feature OS’s Timesnapper $39.95 Intermittent screenshots recorded Windows Only Rachota Open Source All platforms Java – Linux / Mac / Windows Gnome Time Tracker Open Source Power shell can kick off any process Linux (possibly Windows?) CaptureWorks $79.00 Automatically monitors files …
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Seamless on/offline: Design winForms and deploy as ajax webapp on mono
Visual WebGui looks very interesting from a perspective that it allows you to develop a winforms application as you normally would and deploy it as a webapp (also). As per some previous posts, I like to be able to jump seamlessly between platforms. I don’t want to be tied down to anything if I can …
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