ogs22's blog: 2004

Thursday, December 02, 2004

VNC for MacOSX

VNC for MacOSX a handy way to access native aqua apps remotely with out shelling out 199GBP for Apples remote desktop solution (which is undoubtedly better - but hey its £199!)

Tuesday, November 09, 2004

Slashdot | Firefox 1.0 Released

Slashdot | Firefox 1.0 Released
A new Firefox release and a new default homepage http://www.google.com/firefox

Thursday, October 28, 2004

PuTTY: a free telnet/ssh client

PuTTY: a free telnet/ssh client
A security hole has been found in Putty - upgrade if you use it.
http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe

BBC NEWS | Business | UK report says Linux is 'viable'

BBC NEWS | Business | UK report says Linux is 'viable'
Well I prefer *BSD and MacOSX but any (mainstream) acceptance of Linux can only be a good thing for operating systems in general.

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

nano-itx
Pictures of the EPIA-N8000 - thats one small bit of kit
Also: Dual and Quad processor mini-itx - nice!
I've been running a mini-itx since March 2003, fanless and very quiet the machine has been very reliable (running FreeBSD which helps!) I've only ever had to reboot because of upgrades to the OS.

Wednesday, October 06, 2004

Apple - iCal

Apple - iCal
I've been looking for a decent group calendar system for the MMP staff and being a Mac user (recent convert) I looked at using iCal with webdav for publishing, this is great and I've yet to find an issue with it - except for when you add the windows users in to the equation, there is a lack of decent windows clients the only one that comes close is Mozilla's calendar plugin this works OK but still doesn't come across as user friendly and polished as iCal does, but given Mozilla track record recently with Firefox and Thunderbird theres hope for it yet, if I could make the moz calendar publish after every change to an event it would be good enough to use.

Skype - Free Internet telephony that just works

Skype - Free Internet telephony that just works
Indeed as the title says handy p2p software for making computer to computer calls for free and computer to normal phone fairly cheaply (especially long distance) quality seems ok theres a bit of latency but should be managable.