I have now made the final push to go opensource on all my windows 7 applications. Although I would say the overall project has been a success there are one or two areas of failure.
Here is a list of tasks and software I use to complete them.
Web Browsing – FireFox
Email – ThunderBird
Office – OpenOffice
FTP – [...]
I am looking for an Open Source HTML editor to replace Frontpage which I have been using for years. I quite liked frontpage for it’s 3 tabbed approach to pages. I could draw tables in the design mode, go into the html mode and edit it to remove the frontpage fluff and add php code, [...]
I am starting work on a new website and using Zend Framework (as previously mentioned). One of the most demoralising things when coding is not seeing the finished results of your work for weeks/months.
Secunia offer a free personal edition of their PSI software. This software checks all the software on your computer and checks that you have the latest patched version installed.
This saves you going through each program to see if there is an update for it. It is not a virus scanner or security product but it [...]
This is pretty exciting news, Currently plugins run in the same process as FireFox itself which means that the plugin can actually crash the whole browser.
Once this work is completed each plugin will have its own process and if it crashes it won’t pull down the whole browser. It also improves speed. I am guessing [...]
My DVD drive stopped working. I use a piece of software called AnyDVD by Slysoft which allows me to put my DVD’s onto the hardrive of my media center. I was blaming this software and tried everything on their website and nothing worked. I then tried uninstalling it and the DVD drive was still not [...]
Well that how the Daily Mail would report it if they did stories on tech.
Microsoft Corporate Vice President for Trustworthy Computing Scott Charney spoke at the RSA security conference. He compares connecting to the internet with the health care system where general taxation covers things like education programs and quarantine. Marco at http://stop.zona-m.net/node/109 takes [...]
Sorry for not posting in a while, I have been very busy converting a Bus into a Motorhome (RV for our US cousins) You can see details over at http://www.fulltiming.info
In the mean time I know this is old but it bears looking at again.
Upside down ternet
The email at the end is quite amusing.
I have just installed Windows 7, and being an MS hater I was expecting the usual install problems. You know the ones, Install Windows, Reboot, 2nd Stage install, find driver disks, install one driver reboot, install another driver reboot… Oops driver doesn’t work, reboot search the internet. Can’t search the internet as network driver didn’t [...]
I am finally ready to make the big break. I quite like the idea of running KDE as I love linux on the servers I manage.
Unfortunately it doesn’t run iTunes even under Wine. So Dual boot is an option.