Archive for the ‘OS’ Category
Monday, February 15th, 2010
To identify the right CRM solutions for your business, you first need to understand what CRM is. Customer Relationship Management is a way of doing business and it requires a strategy from which you will define processes that can be supported by people and software.
Where most folks get it wrong is by confining CRM to the sales organization, or customer service or marketing. The fact is, each of those areas is a critical part of CRM and there could even be an impact in some of your back office groups as well. (more…)
Tags: B2B, CRM, Customer Relationship Management, Goldmine, SaaS, strategy
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Saturday, November 7th, 2009
Sun Microsystems in the first half of this decade, created a project called Looking Glass. This was an inovative project for creating a 3D desktop. Unfortunately the project died in 2006 and there hasn’t been any work on the project since then.
This is very unvoftunit since it lead to several new technologies including several innovations that Apple is using today in there latest OS.
Take a look at this
Tags: java, MacOS, Sun
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Monday, September 7th, 2009
Windows Vista provides two entirely new features to manage windows using Windows Flip and Windows Flip 3D. Linux is already using this technology. 3D-Desktop is an OpenGL program for switching virtual desktops in a seamless 3-dimensional manner on Linux. The current desktop is mapped into a full screen 3D environment where you may choose other screens. (more…)
Tags: 3D desktop, Beryl, Mandriva, Nvidia
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
The latest version of Knoppix represents a radical remake of the venerable Live CD Linux distribution. Knoppix 6.0 is leaner, faster, and more versatile than ever. In addition to that, the new version brings another significant improvement: the amazingly fast boot process. Even when Knoppix runs from a CD, it takes less than a minute to boot to the graphical desktop. (more…)
Tags: Knoppix, Linux, netbook, OpenOffice.org, Operating System, Pidgin
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Recently a friend requested I help him with an installation of Ubuntu Server. Since he was completely new to the process of installing Linux (he’s a COBOL programmer 
) I thought it would be smart to walk through the process of installing a Ubuntu Server, step by step. (more…)
Tags: Assad Kahalahenie, COBOL, Linux, Server., Ubuntu, Virtual Machine, VirtualBox.
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
As Assad Kahalahenie pointed out on a recent Dr Dobbs post, many people seems to be getting over-exited about the new Google ChromeOS. I think that many bloggers are making more of ChromeOS than what it actually is. Maybe it is time to sum up what Google’s new OS is and what it is not!
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Tags: Assad Kahalahenie, CromeOS, Google, Jolicloud, Linux, Moblin, netbook, Ubuntu
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
IDEs can be useful when you’re coding; however, you may, like me, have a preference for an editor you already know.
The exuberant-ctags package offers some of the source code navigation features of an IDE within Emacs or Vim. (more…)
Tags: command line, Emacs, IDE, Linux, OpenSource, Operating System, Vim
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
Earlier Google announced their intention to release an operating system based on Linux. The reaction of some people was: “No, another neutered, watered-down, capitalized “Linux”.
Linux will once again be viewed as a sub par, ‘specialized’ OS.” Well, this is not possible because Linux is not really an operating system, it is a kernel. And it is actually very successful as a specialized operating system’s kernel. Let me explain. (more…)
Tags: Google, Linux, Linux kernel, OpenSource, Operating System, Ubuntu
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
Screen is a very useful program which in effect gives you multiple console screens in the same window. It’s handy if you’re using a console rather than an xterm, or if you’re connected to another machine, as it means you can do multiple things at once without having to move to another console or open another ssh connection. (more…)
Tags: command line, GNU, Linux kernel, OpenSource, Operating System, Ubuntu
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