Ubuntu by default ships with Terminal Server Client which is a wrapper for rdesktop. While it works I’ve had some issues with it lately: Full screen mode tends to take up both my monitors and results in a weird 2000×1000 … Continue reading
Updated my Ubuntu to 8.10 this week and have been poking around the new features. Yesterday I found “Cruft Remover” under the System > Administration menu. I assumed it was something similar to CCleaner on Windows. CCleaner scans your system … Continue reading
A co-worker told me about this one… SQuirrel SQL bills itself as a “universal SQL client”. At work we use Oracle and I’ve been happy using Oracle’s SQL Developer. At home on Linux I’ve been searching for something to interact … Continue reading
Last night I decided on a whim to upgrade to the latest RC (release candidate) of Ubuntu called Hardy Heron (8.x). It’s due to officially be released in a few days so I figured it should be fairly stable and … Continue reading
Alan has a list of the OpenBD (Open BlueDragon) Steering Committee on his blog: Andy Allan, Peter Amiri, Mike Brunt, Sean Corfield, Mark Drew, Adam Haskell, Jordan Michaels, Alan Williamson, Matt Woodward and Andy Wu LOTS of good names on … Continue reading
This weekend I downloaded the Flex Builder Linux alpha, but ran into some issues and after digging around in the forums it was hinted that a new release would be out ‘soon’. Soon turns out to be this morning. Alpha … Continue reading
I recently purchased a GPS (Garmin 2610) to tote around on motorcycle trips. If you have never tinkered with one – it is VERY cool. Unfortunately the MapSource software that comes with it requires Windows… Ugh. I’ve run VMWare and … Continue reading
I always set ColdFusion to NOT run at startup – why have it eating resources when you aren’t using it? On Windows I had a few batch scripts to easily kick off ColdFusion. I dug around looking for something similar … Continue reading