From reduced packaging to energy savings to extended equipment lifecycles, Linux can help you green up your tech environment. Jack Wallen looks at some of the eco-friendly benefits of running Linux.

An interesting pdf paper about Firebird and Apache+PHP

I wrote the modification/tips needed for running RoR on Firebird

Migrations don’t work yet with RoR and Firebird but you can use Flamerobin for creating tables by hand

Zack Urlocker of MySQL fame was at the Stanford Accel Symposium earlier this week and, along with some other open-source heavyweights, participated on a panel that attempted to cull some lessons learned in building open-source businesses.

Asterisk is the world's leading open-source PBX, telephony engine, and telephony applications toolkit with immense flexibility. 'Asterisk Gateway Interface 1.4 and 1.6 Programming' book by 'Nir Simionovich' will give you a firm understanding of Asterisk Gateway Interface (AGI) development and proper AGI development practices.

Recently, I found my Ubuntu 8.10 a bit slower than before. I think it is because of the applications I installed that makes it slow. My system is getting bloated and I even Firefox is getting slower to open up. So I decided to install Xubuntu.

You can copy command line output to X Windows clipboard directly using xclip command. You can read from standard input (keyboard), or from one or more files, and makes the data available as an X selection for pasting into any X applications such as gedit, OpenOffice or Firefox / email client.

Always Innovating have announced a new ARM based touch screen/tablet computer, which they plan to start shipping the US in May/June with a price starting at $299. The Touch Book will come with the Touch Book OS, based on the Angström Linux distribution.