Category: Computer Tech

This is an one for the books. Virtualise remote connectivity as well as the os/apps stack. I wonder what they are going to do with it.

Well Judge Kimball has finally put paid to SCO’s lawsuit by indicating that Novell are the rightful owners of the Unix copyrights and patents. That effectively cans SCO’s threat to Linux. It’s also interesting from the viewpoint that SCO licensed Unix to both MS and Sun and they need to pass those collected fees on…

The BSD guys ( Theo de Raadt and co ) have unearthed some fairly serious sounding issues in Core 2 chips, some of these issues even maybe being exploitable from userspace. More here and here.

Groklaw has some very interesting comments on the above header – see here – basically it means that Novell is cutting itself off from the people it gets its software from. Not a good thing to do.

Groklaw has unearthed some interesting information that gives some credence to the possibility that SCO’s IBM legal action was a precedent for MS to attack the GPL and Linux – more here

Recently, MS funded a study checking whether GPL programmers would want the GPL3 to police patents. eWeek had the following headline: “Study: Developers Do Not Want GPL 3 to Police Patents”. Of course, they got it wrong again. 1st, the study had a 11% response rate – not very representative one would say. 2nd, BSD-licensed…

Rob Weir has an interesting article on his blog concerning MS’ ODF plugin – basically it is an importer and does not actually provide a usable format for MS Office users interested in ODF compatbility. We might be given to thinking that this was done intentionally to make it appear that ODF is useless …

So we thought that we’d have to go to 2.1rc4 to get Vista support but it appears the settings and changes below work – even the openvpngui works properly – thanks for the testing Manny …

So there appears to be significant enough changes in Vista that it breaks OpenVPN in a few ways, one of which is that OpenVPN can’t insert routes into the Vista kernel routing table. One ( untested by me ) workaround is to use the following to items in your config: route-method exe route-delay 2 Also,…

I recently did a site-to-site vpn using OpenVPN for a customer who is using dynamic ip ADSL at both ends of the link. Suffice it to say, the link dropped fairly quickly and I had a problem with adding routes after the link came up – I had to put in some waits because adding…

Two new extensions I’ve recently found for OpenOffice is MultiSave and EmailBackup. MultiSave allows one to save a file to oo, ms and/or pdf formats simultaneously. I use this when doing invoices as not a lot of people have OO but most had Acroreader. EmailBackup allows one to send a backup copy of your current…

Barcelona ( server ) and Agena ( desktop ) are on track apparently for a summer ( northern hemisphere ) release. However the names will be slightly different – Phenom according to reports that have been circulating. Performance should be at least on par with existing 65nm Core2Duo systems from Intel but it shoudl be…

From the general articles being posted recently ( and besides MS’ marketing information ), it would appear that Microsoft are losing kudus with their customers. I say this with consideration of the following: bugs are not being fixed even in Patch Tuesday for some time Vista has not apparently made the inroads MS expected system…