Category Archives: Apache and Linux
IE 7 vs Firefox 1.5 vs Opera 9 – The gap is closing
The upcoming releases of IE, Firefox, and Opera show that innovation in Web Browser Development has just come to an end. Companies are simply integrating the more popular features of rival products into their browsers. No radical changes are planned … Continue reading
How To Enable Cookies on your Browser
I’ve been receiving lots of inquiries about enabling cookies on web browsers, so I thought it would be good to have it here as a post. It is necessary for some of the web sites, web content management systems and … Continue reading
Need Protection: Antivirus Software Reviews
Antivirus software is must-have protection. This review picks the best antivirus software based on its virus detection abilities, features, and breadth of protection. Whether you’re seeking total system coverage or an ala carte solution, each of the following products provides … Continue reading
Managing Linux, the Windows way
A couple of weeks ago, I took BEA to task for insinuating that the open source community wasn’t capable of delivering good management tools for its software. A few readers leapt to the defense: BEA is right, they said. Management … Continue reading
Getting your Ubuntu box safely up to speed
As a long-time fan of SuSE Linux, I somehow managed to miss the Ubuntu bandwagon. Now I know what I was missing. I recently replaced SuSE 10.1 with Ubuntu 6.06, also known as Dapper Drake, on my main PC in … Continue reading
PHP vs ASP.NET
When it comes to Web development these days, you have a lot of options. Many of these methods involve preprocessing—that is, embedding code into HTML pages with special tags that signal to a preprocessor that they contain code, and that … Continue reading
IBM prepares Linux version of Sametime
IBM is porting Lotus Sametime to Linux, the first time this enterprise instant messaging platform will support the popular open source operating system. IBM will deliver a Linux version of the desktop client before mid-September in Sametime’s version 7.5, which … Continue reading
HP announces support for Debian Linux
Hewlett-Packard is throwing its support behind the Debian Linux distribution, the first major hardware maker to align itself with the noncommercial community-based Linux offering. HP says it will support Debian Linux on its ProLiant and HP BladeSystem servers, and what … Continue reading
Linux vs Microsoft
Both Windows and Linux come in many flavors. All the flavors of Windows come from Microsoft, the various distributions of Linux come from different companies (i.e. Linspire, Red Hat, SuSE, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Knoppix, Slackware, Lycoris). Windows has two main lines: … Continue reading