Archive for October, 2009

Department of defense and Linux

Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Department of defense and Linux

The US Department of Defence has done a study on OpenSource software and prepared a document to give guidance. The document is giving guidance on how to approach opensource and by this making it valid for the military to use and consider opensource besides closedsource software. For a long time the US military was... »

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100% of 50% to Linux switch

Thursday, October 29th, 2009
100% of 50% to Linux switch

As some people may know I did a switch from windows to Linux at my previous employer and was very happy with it. After some troubles I had running all the tools I needed on a Ubuntu instance running on top of a Dell laptop. Now I have spend the past time working... »

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Location aware printing

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Location aware printing

Years ago people started to talk about not using paper anymore. Especially in IT and consultancy firms there was a lot of talking and discussion about not using paper anymore and doing all from your computer. We have made some steps. A lot of the invoices send to you are now digital and your... »

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Oracle EBS certified on Windows

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Oracle EBS certified on Windows

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 (12.1.1) is now certified on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (32-bit) running on x86/x86-64 hardware. Note that MS Windows Server 2008 x64 (64-bit) and MS Windows Server 2008 R2 are not covered by this announcement. »

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Goverment open data

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
Goverment open data

Lets say you are a government, a city counsel or any other form of government and you have a huge huge set of data on all kinds of topics. And you do want to give this to the public. What do you have to do to make this data useful to the public? Do... »

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Google side wiki

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
Google side wiki

Google launched a new product named Google SideWiki. It is a browser plugin which can be used to add comments to a existing website without the owner of the website having any control about it. So now you have the option to leave a comment to something on the web even if their is... »

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future social mobile apps

Monday, October 12th, 2009
future social mobile apps

Sometime you come across a company, a product, a concept or a idea that is so great and so stunning that you want to know more and more about it. I had this experience with TAT or "The Astonishing Tribe". TAT is a company Swedish company who makes concepts and idea for mobile applications... »

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Fun with Linux find

Sunday, October 11th, 2009
Fun with Linux find

sometimes finding out the way a Linux or UNIX command is working can be fun. For example I have been looking into the way how the find command is working and I have had a lot of fun with it. find can give you a great option to locate exactly the files you want... »

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Oracle Sun integration roadmap

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Oracle Sun integration roadmap

As we all know Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems some time ago. One of the big issues that will currently be on the table in those offices is what to do with some of the products. For example Sun is and always have been a big supporter of MySQL and this is a direct competitor... »

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Free WiFi and coffee

Sunday, October 4th, 2009
Free WiFi and coffee

More and more you see free WiFi coming to coffee corners and coffee shops. Starbucks for example is giving away wifi and some countries a stop at your local hamburger place is also a good place to do some work. However, as all is about money the question is if it returning anything to... »

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