Jeremy Allison has decided to part amicably with Hewlett-Packard Co. and move to Novell Inc. He states that he has no problem or issues with HP and feels it’s a fine company doing great things in the Linux world. He does feel that he’ll have more opportunities to evangelize Samba and Linux at Novell.
He was quoted in this NewsForge article that he has been impressed with Novell since his attendance at BrainShare 2004 but it has taken till now to actually decide to leave HP.
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The plan was to go camping to wonderful Goblin Valley. My Brother, his wife and four other friends had made plans to leave Friday night after work. It’s a shorr three hour drive from my place. The weather was looking good and I was stoked. I took Friday off to take care of some errands I needed to take care of and to pack.
Then it came…
The email, webmail, DNS, gateway and firewall server of a company I have been consulting for over ten years had crashed. The hardware ATA RAID system had experienced a total failure.
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I really like Thunderbird as an email client. It supports most of what I like to do with mail. One feature that I have missed from other mail clients I have used however, is the ability to bounce email (send with original headers, not forward) to one or more persons. In the past I have dealt with this in a rather cumbersome way, logging into my shell account on my server and using pine to bounce messages when needed. That gets tiresome quickly so I end up forwarding many things I should have bounced.
Enter the “Mail Redirect” Thunderbird Extension.
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Google has one of the coolest features if you so any shopping online - Google Search by Number. If a shipping company has shipped your item and has a tracking number, most likely you can track it (without knowing the company’s website) by typing in the tracking number alone into google. If google knows about it, the result is the shipping company’s website with your tracking info. Very cool expecialy if you have packages being shipped by several courier companies. The original info can be found in this google blog article.
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I recently installed SuSE Professional 9.3 on my workstation in my office at Novell. After installation there was an error when using the Yast Online Update (YOU) tool that caused it to fail getting updates. After researching the issue abit and talking to a few people (Marcus Meissner, Xin Wei Hu and Anders Johansson) I was able to solve the issue.
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Unfortunately the ProView PL576Ws LCD monitor, as nice as it is, had to go back. There was no way that it would do 1280×720 (720p) and the purpose of buying it was to be a second monitor in my home theater. So, I took it back to Staples this afternoon.
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Well, I picked up a ProView PL576Ws 15.4″ widescreen LCD display from Staples tonight. It is probably the cheapest HDTV monitors avaialable at the sub $300 USD level. I brought it home, plagged it in and noticed that while it supports 1280×800 and a few “standard” resolutions, it does not support native 720p (1280×720) HD resolution. I am somewhat dissapointed in this. For a monitor that can certainly display resolution-wise 1280×720, it has no native support for this resolution dispite it being billed as a “widescreen” monitor (it’s “Ws” in the model name denotes it’s widescreen capabilities).
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Andrey Filippov, who is a member of the Salt Lake Linux Users Group (SLLUG) has just released an amazing write-up detailing the work he has done over the last 6 months making an Ogg Theora camera using an FPGA and embedded Linux.
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According to this announcement on Astonomy Picture of the Day, water has been found in liquid form on Mars.
Read on for details of the announcement…
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