Archive for January, 2008

Toronto Wiki Tuesdays: Feb, Mar, April.

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Last month’s Toronto Wiki Tuesday marked a turning point. For the next 3 months in 2008 we have speakers lined up! To date I have usually lead a conversation based on my work with clients but I much prefer to not have to be center-stage all of the time.
Talks at Toronto Wiki Tuesdays usually […]

So, no Slingbox for Linux, but how about a VM for the WINE install?

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Anyone fancy bundling up Andrew Butkus’ Singbox on WINE solution as operating system vmware (or maybe xen) image?

I bought an EeePC for the road

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Technology marches on, smaller, faster, cheaper.
This is especially pertinant at the ultralight end of laptops. My Asus EeePC is a diminutive (7″) laptop running Xandros, a windows-look-alike version of Debian Linix, had a 4GB solid state drive, built in wifi and webcam. The cheaper ones (surf models) don’t have webcams. Here’s the http://wiki.eeeuser.com/eee_hardware_faq
It’s […]

Running my Accounting Systems under VMware

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

A company lives and dies by its ability to sustain its existance. Nothing is more important than knowing where you are in order to make prudent decisions.
My XP laptop (an IBM X30) died last month. As the data was backed up this was not catastrophic disaster in itself.
I’d been running my accounting system(QuickBooks) […]

A new desktop PC for Virtualisation, osx86 and the New Year.

Friday, January 4th, 2008

My trusty laptop (an IBM X30) died a few weeks back. My data is fine but there’s something very unstable about the machine itself. After almost 5 years of intensive use, a survival from someone spilling coffee over it when I first came to Canada, and having accompianed me on many trips around this planet, […]