SafeSquid - Content Filtering Internet Proxy, has many content filtering features that can be used to decide who is allowed what, when and how much on the net. In this tutorial I will describe how to create user profiles, and give them access to specific websites only, while blocking access to all other websites.
Read more »How To Set Up Internet Access Control And Internet Filtering With SafeSquid Proxy Server
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Managed Services: Built On Open Source?
Ben Yarbrough has seen it. Bob Walters has seen it. And now, hundreds of managed service providers are starting to see it. What exactly is “it”? The simple answer: The convergence of open source with managed services.
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Darwine 0.9.58 and some interesting stats
Leopard, Darwine 0.9.58, Freetype 2.3.5, FontForge py25-20080302, Symlinks fonts, Darwine SDK. Tiger should be out sometime on sunday or monday (hopefully).
Read more »Strong Growth for Linux Handsets - Report
Mobile Linux is well poised to take on the surging smartphone market according to a report from the Strategy Analytics Handset Component Technologies Service.
Read more »Wash away the photo workflow blues with blueMarine
Photo buffs who are fond of open source software would do well to look at blueMarine. Right now, the free, cross-platform application's strength is image management, but it is on its way to becoming a complete workflow tool. Its cataloging features are robust, its architecture is extensible, and it takes some intriguing new approaches.
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No Justification Need
In a nicely done spin for the media, OSBC suddenly became about how Microsoft braved the lion's den, instead of the real progress a lot of companies are making in open source development and business.
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How To Troubleshoot Wireless Network Connection in Ubuntu
In setting up their wireless connection for the first time, Im discovering many individuals having problems connecting through Network Manager or other GUI wireless connection tools. In fact my Network Manager is intermittently buggy, connecting sometimes and not others.
Read more »All That Got Stolen Was Microsoft's Thunder
It's bad enough that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) with its big war chest might sue you for producing open source software. But what's really hard to take is the suggestion that you stooped to stealing Microsoft code for your project. At the Open Source Business Conference this week in San Francisco, one show organizer got his revenge.
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Four useful table tips in OpenOffice.org Writer
Tables are for the most part pretty clear, but these four tips will help you get around some less-than-obvious behacvior.
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Suspend/Resume with NVIDIA proprietary driver works in Hardy!
I am amazed, after having owned my Asus A8JS for about a year I have not been able to suspend resume properly, most probably because of the proprietary nvidia drivers. But today I just tried it out…. AND it works… I am amazed! I am using Ubuntu Hardy btw.
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Creating graphs the old-fashioned way with Ploticus
Ploticus is a throwback to the days when Unix programs did one thing, and did it well, using a minimum of system resources. Its SourceForge.net page hints at this orientation by describing Ploticus as "non-interactive" software for "just-in-time graph generation."
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Should Microsoft be afraid of Linux?
Does Microsoft fear Linux? Should it fear Linux? Does it fear Linux only in certain sectors, like Web servers, and not others, like the desktop? What exactly does “fear” mean here? Why do I still watch Lost? All important questions that deserve highly developed answers.
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Enlightening experiences with window managers
Do you remember our youth? The good times we had, the games we played, and that great discussion we had about what makes a window manager different from a desktop environment? Then our relationship sort of got stuck on desktop environments.
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What is the free software community?
In this video, I try to answer the question “What is the free software community?” Comments, or even community posts in response to this, are most welcome!
Read more »js2-mode: a new JavaScript mode for Emacs
"I've written a new JavaScript editing mode for GNU Emacs, and released it on code.google.com. This is part of a larger project, in progress, to permit writing Emacs extensions in JavaScript instead of Emacs-Lisp. Lest ye judge: hey, some people swing that way. The larger project is well underway, but probably won't be out until late summer or early fall.
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