There is an interesting article at Linux.com on the top ten administrator utilities in linux. Titled “My sysadmin toolbox” it goes into some detail on some of the good standby’s that if you’re interested in learning command line linux, you ought to take a look at. The one that I hesitate on is pwgen which is a utility for generating random passwords. I’ve always read that if you can create the password with a program, it can be broken the sameway. However, I bet the passwords generated with pwgen are better than those that most users pick out (fred or mynewcar for example…)
Category: Software
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Linux livecd 6 month followups
If you’ve ever given away linux livecd’s and wondered if they were ever tried, you might be interested in reading this newsforge article about a guy that followed up with several livecd recipients about 6 months on. It’s interesting to see what he found. There were a limited number, but it is interesting.
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klax KDE 3.5 RC1 screenshot tour
KDE 3.5 RC1 has been out long enough that there’s already a series of screenshots… (11/11/05 was the announcement). Screenshots are available here. The screen caps were taken from the KLAX livecd.
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Netscape 7.1 download file could not be saved
I’ve run across this a couple of times and to save me a few more Google searches….
Under Netscape 7.1, trying to download a file, there is a long message (with a temporary file address), and the following…
(long path to file like c:\windows\temp\….. ) could not be saved because the source file could not be found. Try again later or contact the server administrator.
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Free OpenOffice.org training videos
For those of you that can’t be dropped into an application and “wing it” learning by doing, newsforge has announced some openoffice.org training videos that are now available for free download. So, if you ever wanted or needed a video walkthrough for you or someone else on OpenOffice it looks like that need has been filled. They’re actually excerpts from a video cd that comes from an upcoming book on OpenOffice, entitled Point & Click OpenOffice.org.
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Opendocument format getting more support
There is support building for the opendocument format, it seems. The format is designed to prevent document lockin to proprietary formats and the group promoting it would like to see it supported by all office suites. (Currently OpenOffice.org 2 and Staroffice support the format, koffice 1.4.2 partially supports it (1.5 due for release after the new year should fully support the format. IBM Workplace (based on openoffice) also partially supports the new format.)
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Mozilla Firefox RC2 released…
We’re inching yet closer to a new official release of the Mozilla Firefox browser. Yesterday was the 1st anniversary of the 1.0 release and today see’s the release of the second Release Candidate for 1.5 If you’ve already got a pre-release version of 1.5 it should automatically update. There may still be bugs, so… you might want to wait for the final release if you’re bug-averse….
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Mozilla Firefox birthday
According to spreadfirefox.com, a year ago today was the release of Mozilla Firefox 1.0
Firefox was released prior to November 9th, 2004 in preview releases and early betas, but the official 1.0 came out a year ago today, hard to believe. According to some sources it has as much as 10% of the web market share, although that’s tough to gauge (varies by site content.) It shipped originally with support for “17 languages and on 5 platforms”.
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New List of Open Source software for Windows
In an effort to educate more people on the value of open source software, there is the Looplist. The Looplist was highlighted in desktoplinux.com today. It’s essentially a user-collaborated WIKI listing Open Source applications which run on Windows based systems.
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Windows cleanmgr takes too long at compress old files
Here’s a quick fix for Windows 2000 and XP when using cleanmgr to clean out temporary files. I’ve run across many systems that it just freezes (or takes way too long) calculating space saved by compressing old files, or hangs just saying “compress old files”. Well, here’s one way to skip that step.