Ubuntu 10.10 – T minus 5 hours
Ubuntu 10.10 (which is being released on 10-10-10) is set to release in less than 5 hours. I’ve just gotten the final kinks worked out of my 10.04 machine, so here’s to hoping the upgrade doesn’t wreck my system!
Dell E1505 Ubuntu – no wifi
I own a Dell E1505 laptop from about 4 years back that contains a 1390 Wireless Mini-Card. This card uses the Broadcom 4311 chipset. As this laptop is a secondary machine, it is subject to frequent OS installs and all kinds of testing. The biggest issue I’ve had with it has been Ubuntu 9.10. I …
Google Maps update problems on Droid Froyo
I’ve been running and RC build of Android 2.2 aka Froyo on my Motorola Droid for a few weeks. It’s great, overall, but there are still a few quirks. One of the most noticeable issues is that Google Maps doesn’t like to update. To manually fix Maps, modify /data/system/packages.xml, removing the section that starts with: …
How To: Schedule Winamp Recording
I like to listen to a weekly streaming radio show, but I’m usually not around to catch any or all of the stream. I then need to scour the interwebz to find a ripped recording of the show, which is usually on Rapidshare/Megaupload/etc. This method takes a while to find/download (that is, if it’s even …
The Motorola Droid is the bomb
I recently purchased a Motorola Droid smartphone. I was looking forward to the Android operating system that it comes with and am very impressed with the amount of progress that has been made in the modding community. There are tons of alternative firmwares available across the web that include tons of different enhanced features, including …
CA ITM (business antivirus/anti-malware) sucks!
Like the title says, CA Integrated Threat Management (aka CA ITM, eTrust ITM, etc) is god-awful! We’ve been running it at my office for almost two years and I’m glad to say we are NOT renewing the subscription. I can’t count how many infections I’ve removed from employee’s PCs that CA has missed but free …
VMware Server 2.x – a nightmare
For the past year and a half we’ve been running one VMware product or another. We started with VMware Workstation and Server, and while Workstation proved to be (and continues to be) an invaluable tool, Server just wasn’t cutting it. I had used Server 1.x at home to host a few virtual servers without any …
DrewGreen.net: Now running on IIS 7.5
For the past few years I’ve been running a few websites on a Ubuntu server running a LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) configuration. I’ve been running an application called EHCP (Easy Hosting Control Panel) which is a simplistic web control panel to host multiple sites in a reseller environment. I was using it for the …
Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 now publicly available
Yesterday marked launch day for the latest generation of Windows client & server operating systems. Having used Windows 7 for the better part of the past year (during the beta testing stages), I can safely say this is a product any consumer will be happy to have on their computer (except maybe Mac fanboys). I …
Office 2010 Beta available on Torrent sites
As the title suggests, the Beta of Microsoft Office 2010 is now available on Torrent sites all across the interwebs. Here’s a TPB link (includes x86 & x64 versions). So far, I’m really liking 2010. The most noticeable change to me is the addition of the Ribbon to Outlook. The layout seems a bit more …