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New blog for gm and gp

by ezs | Sep 28, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

Grandma and Grandpa are working on their house. I’ve been hacking away at a new blog for them.

Especially pleased with the Lightbox support for pictures. I’ll see how it goes and maybe put it across to the main photo blog.

Blog backend updates

by ezs | Sep 26, 2007 | patching, Uncategorized, wordpress

I’ve just updated most of the hosted blogs to WordPress 2.3 – so far so good.

I need to update the integrated photo stuff to Gallery 2.2 as well – that’s going to be a lot more involved and needs some good planning and change control.

ITIL podcasts

by ezs | Sep 21, 2007 | ITIL, Uncategorized

Some great podcasts from Mark Haddad – an ITIL trainer.

Here and also on this website.

[Edit: Updated with correct download url]

all ITILed out

by ezs | Sep 21, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

Two weeks of back-to-back training.

Last week Service Support in Birmingham, this week Service Delivery in London.

All in aid of getting the ISEB Managers Certificate in IT Service Management.

Just over a month to the exams; two three hour written papers. Time to get reading and revising.

WordPress updates

by ezs | Sep 16, 2007 | patching, Uncategorized, wordpress

Away from home and the WordPress updates come in..

2.2.3 is a security update; also 2.3 Release Candidate 1 should be out tomorrow.

I also bumped the version of subscribe2 on the family blog – that fixed a lot of problems 🙂

What to run on a new workstation?

by ezs | Sep 12, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

New hardware for Jon and Laurence:

>> Now if you’ve got a 2 x dual CPUs, 6Gb ram , gigabit NIC etc.. then
>> naturally you want an operating system that can make full use of this.
>>
>> Dell have supplied such a beast
>>
>> FreeDOS.
>>

Now we all know that Dell supply FreeDOS to keep the license and bundling police happy.. But what could you run on a new machine that’s less than useful..

Our ideas so far:

NetWare 2.2 with WordStar in the DOS memory
OS/2 Warp
DOS 6.2 with MAME as an arcade emulator
GNU/Hurd for the purists
Digital Research GEM
CP/M-86 with Wordstar and dBase II

So may sad ideas – here’s a list of current alternative OS:

http://www.freeos.com/compare/

What do you think?

Linux will not displace Windows – proof

by ezs | Aug 31, 2007 | fun stuff, Linux, Uncategorized

Haha. This was forwarded to me and made me smile.

Why Linux will not displace Windows

Here’s the incredible response:

You are kidding arent you ?

Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ?

That sounds preposterous to me.

If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.

Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.

Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible.

I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.

Posted by: jerryleecooper Posted on: 03/14/07