In a small windows network you can contact (i.e. ping etc.) one windows computer from another using their name even if there isn’t a DNS server in the network. However, from a computer running linux, you would need to know the ip address of the computer you want to contact. The “computer name” the windows computers use in this instance are their netbios names which other computers discover using WINS resolution. Linux computers are usually not set up to use this.
The most common solution is to just add just add the PCs to your hosts file. But that would become tiresome if you have more than a couple of computers, and would not work at all if your computers use dynamic IPs.
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Google have just released their own Web browser. When they announced it via a set of comic strips, it took some people by surprise especially after the april fool stunt a couple of years ago. The comic strip itself tries to explain how the web has evolved and why we need a new browser to cater for that.
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Mozilla Ubiquity is another little project in progress over at Mozilla Labs. It provides a command line interface to the web… well a very small part of it anyway. They released an early alpha version a couple of days ago so I thought I’ll give it a go.
It comes as a Firefox extension that currently works in Windows, OSX (requiring another software download) and partially in Linux. Once you’ve installed the extension you can press ctrl+space to call up a little console. Read the rest of this article »
Mozilla have a new project brewing in their labs called Snowl. It is supposed to be An Experiment with Messaging in the Browser
They call it a conversing
tool. Its purpose is to help us follow and participate online discussions by helping us keep track of all our conversations.
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There are a fair few project management tools available for Linux that differ in simplicity of use as well as the features they include. Most of them would be suitable for smaller projects, but there are a couple that would be as suitable for complex large scale projects as the commercial solutions such as Microsoft Project.
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Reading this blog post about the OS as a platform I recalled a gripe I often have when installing software on Linux… the lack of a common interface for applications to register themselves with the OS/Desktop Environment. By that I mean, there is no facility for an application installer to say: Read the rest of this article »
I’m putting up all tools ans scriptlets I make for helping me with web developmet up on my Software & Web Development site at http://t.prosignia.net/
Check ‘em out. You might find them helpful.
Update (11 July): Checkpoint have released a new update for ZoneAlarm that resolves this issue.
If your internet connection stopped working after you installed windows update patches released yesterday, it’s most probably because you are running Zone Alarm with its security level set to high. One of the patches (KB951748) released yesterday doesn’t play very well with zone alarm.
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There have always been stories of how cool google is as a workplace, as well as recent stories of people leaving google. Sergey Solyanik is one of them, who is going back to his previous employer … none other than Microsoft.
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There are plenty of office suites as well as a whole host of other productivity software freely available for GNU/Linux. Most of these provide the average user with all the functionality they need from a word processor, desktop database or spread sheet application. Some will even open documents created in Microsoft Word or Excel with varying degrees of success. There will be some issues when it comes to Read the rest of this article »
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