Just a collection of links that are mostly for my reference, but somebody might find it interesting.
- New project: Ubuntu Home Server (directly in response to Windows Home Server).
- Remote control somebody’s desktop with Crossloop.
- Get Vista-style drive icons in XP with Vista Drive Icon (just yet another reason you don’t need Vista, no matter what Barney says on KTVZ).
- What does a billboard printer look like? Something like this.
- Build your own Hackintosh Mac for under $800 (anybody want to send me $800 so I can try this?). Or I guess I could just try running it on the PC I already have, though it’d still be nice to have a dedicated box for the experiment.
- Essential Tools for a Placeless Office (great collection of ideas and thoughts on if you have a company with no office).
- Fedora 8 Games Spin Live DVD (this is going in the laptop bag for those times when I’m stuck somewhere).
- Is It time for 64-bit on the desktop?
- Identifying slow MySQL queries.
- Getting Redhat Enterprise or CentOS to support 4GB (or more) of RAM using the PAE Kernel.
- The KDE Education project — great linux distro for students and teachers.
- For my reference: To see if any IP addresses have a ton of connections to your server quickly and easily, run “netstat -ntu | awk ‘{print $5}’ | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n”.
- Reserve off part of your desktop for docked applications with DesktopCoral.
- Disable wget if you don’t need it.
- Free software to find your security flaws.
- Mandriva’s open letter to Steve Ballmer.
- Your desktop is not a destination.
- Having a hard time convincing your boss to use encrypted e-mail? This might do it.
- Salvage an old system with Damn Small Linux.
- How to See What Pages a Traffic Source is Linking in Google Analytics.
- How to recover a deleted Word document.
- Top ten off switches.
Update on 11/14: A few more I just found (many from here):