Archive | July, 2008

31 July 2008 ~ 7 Comments

Open Source Digital Asset Management – Part 1

I’ve looked into this before, but haven’t done nothing about it. I am starting to look back into it a bit more heavily. My only requirements are something that works the I think it should (that’s such a clear term isn’t it) and that it’s open source. If there is a commercial backing to it, [...]

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27 July 2008 ~ 1 Comment

A Working Budget

Is such a thing possible? As me and my Wife are planning for a house, one of the real facts about credit cards hit me, variable interest rate. I had a credit card holding my debt from my college years sitting there I was making about twice the minimum payment and had never been late. [...]

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27 July 2008 ~ 0 Comments

ATI Open Source Video Drivers

I finally left the fglrx closed sourced drivers and loaded up the ati drivers from the git repo. These code in git includes the ability for 3d acceleration for the r500 chips. I have an x1300 in my laptop, which I believe is a r515. So naturally I my curiosity won and I had to [...]

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22 July 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Should we fear Google?

This topic has been spoken on a lot, a quick google search shows that this topic has brought up as far back as 2003 when The Inquirer wrote Is Google the next Microsoft?. A buddy of mine in the industry sent me a more recent article by RedmondMag Google, the next Microsoft and ask for [...]

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21 July 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Laptop Power Adapters

Yeah, so … Don’t leave your laptop power adapter at work over a 3 day weekend. It sucks. Especially when it would of taken me two hours to pick it up. I opted to go without it for the weekend. It was a long weekend

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17 July 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Blog / News Spam

There is no doubt that both of these topics are on the top of the discussion boards. They have been proven to save energy and most of the time cut costs. But you know a topic has reach stardom when ‘big’ time news and blog sources right about it, but the 3 page article doesn’t [...]

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16 July 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Browser Stats in the Business World

So most people are talking about the rise of Firefox, and the market share it is capturing. But one thing people are failing to mention is the market that these stats are taking from. If I take one of my own communities (granted very small) which focuses on open source on laptops then you would [...]

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14 July 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Ft Worth Linux User Group Banner

So, it’s only a proof on concept I did in about 15 minutes before going to be, but I thought I would go ahead and show it off. Please critic. Or you can Download the XCF and play with it yourself. The 92.1 Image came from Neo on Flickr and the Tux logo com from [...]

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11 July 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Conslidated Work Week

I use to think that a 4-10 work week was considered flex hours, but I soon found out otherwise. Flex hours is demanding that employees be in the office, say 10 – 2, and then can decide where to put the other 4 work hours around that. A 4 day 10 hours a day work [...]

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10 July 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Is Sun going to burnout?

Some seem to think so, other are hoping they will last until through 2009 to release new products and survive the economic downturn. After reading an article at The Var Guy and another at The Register things are not looking all the great for the company financially. Which in the corporate world, sadly, is all [...]

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