Carla Schroder

In the “Linux Rescues Windows From Itself In Yet Another Creative Way” category we have these newfangled Linux-powered instant-on environments. It seems that DeviceVM’s Splashtop has been getting the most attention. Splashtop comes on a ROM chip on certain motherboards, and ASUS says that eventually they want to bundle it on all of their boards. […]

Offsite backups are essential for important data, because we all know the perils of keeping everything in one location: fire, flood, theft, power surges, power failures, permatemps refuse to take it anymore and go berserk– it’s just wise redundancy. But how do you implement offsite backups? I’m tired of reading headlines about how some minimum-wage […]

I am a proud KDE-lover, and I think Konqueror is the best file manager there is. It’s a pretty good Web browser too, though it tends to gag on certain script-heavy, poorly-scripted sites. But that seems a rational response–spit ’em out and move on. Making Konqueror’s Default View What You Want Getting back to Konqueror […]

I am fortunate to have some of the best professional writers in the business contributing to LinuxPlanet. Over the past few weeks I’ve written a few blog entries on how to write good documentation, because, as with virtually all industries, good tech documentation is in short supply. Whether you’re contributing something for free to your […]

It’s a funny thing how Microsoft succeeds in getting their logo and the Windows logo plastered on everything– computers, advertising, and even other companies’ ads. That “We recommend Windows Vista!” blurb is on every darned ad and product catalog that exists, it seems. Every word that falls from the mouths of Bill Gates and Steve […]

In the beginning were C and C++, and hosts of other computer programming languages. These are all based on ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), which as the name implies is based on the English alphabet. Which wouldn’t be an issue except there are lot of other humans in the world, and they don’t […]

Thanks to Canonical and its success with popularizing Ubuntu Linux, there has been an astonishing influx of new Linux users. This is one of those good news — bad news scenarios; the growth is wonderful, but it also brings a growth in user demands, and a carryover of bad habits from the closed, proprietary software […]

Here at ServerWatch we talk a lot about virtualization and the many different virtualization applications, and it is quite a mixed batch. Some are closed-source proprietary applications, some are open source, and some are a combination. Typically, a commercial product will also have a free-of-cost open source edition, which usually has a smaller feature set […]

Last week we introduced ourselves to Sidux, the excellent Debian Sid implementation that makes Debian Sid a bit friendlier. Even though I thought I gave a number of reasons why a user might prefer Sidux to Debian Sid, or Ubuntu, or some other Debian derivative, they apparently were not clear to a number of readers. […]

In our first two installments we ran some price comparisons of iPBX appliances, based on our ficticious 50-person office. We looked at Pingtel’s SIPxchange ECS, RockBochs’ Phonebochs, Asterisk Business Edition, and Switchvox. Our last candidate is Fonality’s PBXtra. But first, I must correct a rather major omission: Some of these charge annual per-user license and/or […]