Monthly Archives: December 2006

Novell OES2 in beta

Posted on December 28, 2006 by martijn

Novell is accepting beta-sites for the closed Open Enterprise Server 2beta. Key features of this OES2 release will be Dynamic StorageManagement, Linux/Windows Integration and Virtualisation. On the announcement website, only references to Linux are made. So willit be that OES2 … Continue reading →

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open movie: Elephants Dream

Posted on December 21, 2006 by martijn

Last night I was at the local cinema for the last show of the Dutch Touch movie. Prior to the main movie a part of the short animated movie Elephants Dream was shown. The graphics where quite stunning and I … Continue reading →

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Course 3068: Migrating from RedHat to Suse SLES10

Posted on December 19, 2006 by martijn

I don’t think bringing out free courses titled “Course 3068: Migrating from RedHat to Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10” can count on great acceptance by the community. It sounds biting towards RedHat. The course title it kinda misleading … it’s … Continue reading →

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Secunia Software Inspector

Posted on December 17, 2006 by martijn

Secunia offers a free online security inspection of Windows PC’s. It audits a PC for insecure versions of applications using the vulnerability database of Secunia.Feature Overview:* Detects insecure versions of applications installed* Verifies that all Microsoft patches are applied* Assists … Continue reading →

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GroupWise TID’s

Posted on December 15, 2006 by martijn

My two new favorite GroupWise TID’s over at http://support.novell.com/Thanks to http://gwcheck.blogspot.com

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openSUSE 10.2: List of Recommended Repositories

Posted on December 11, 2006 by martijn

Vichar Bhatt comes up with quite a list of recommended package repositories for YaST. Both the Guru and Packman repositories have made quite a name for themselves over time and are definitely must haves.

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openSUSE and webcam support

Posted on December 10, 2006 by martijn

Webcam support in Linux still is in a quite premature stage of development. Applications like GAIM and other IM applications (except for aMSN) still lack in any form of webcam support. Recently I got a new Cisco webcam and I … Continue reading →

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openSUSE 10.2 is released!

Posted on December 7, 2006 by martijn

Nice to see that openSUSE 10.2 sticks to the planned release schedule. For download ISOs of the the 5 CD open source version plus an add-on CD with proprietary portions, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader, RealPlayer, and Sun Java Runtime … Continue reading →

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The Linux way to Flickr

Posted on December 5, 2006 by martijn

Linux.com offers a nice article on using the Yahoo flick.com photo service on Linux desktop. Several GUI and CLI tools are highlighted which all make use of the Flickr API. Too bad my personal favorite isn’t mentioned … F-Spot.

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new blog address

Posted on December 3, 2006 by martijn

In the next days, I’ll try to migrate my xs4all.nl blog to blogger.com.For the moment, feel free to check out my blog over @ xs4all.nl

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