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IE 7 is Released

Chris — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:31:47 +0000

M$ released their “updated” browser today, officially. Here’s a “bottom line” review from ZDNet:

The bottom line: IE 7 was Microsoft’s one chance to
leapfrog ahead of the competition, but the company has only barely
caught sight of the current front-runners. For more features and
greater security, switch to Mozilla Firefox.

Joyent Promotional Video for Sun

Chris — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:22:04 +0000

My domain is hosted at TextDrive, a company owned by Joyent. They are huge on Sun products, especially the new Solaris 10 and the X4500 box. Here is a promotional video from Sun that shows what Joyent is doing with their products.

Server Monitoring Software

Chris — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 01:39:19 +0000

We’ve been looking for a good server monitoring software at work…only to find most of the “free” stuff out there is a pain in the ass to get working. Maybe you get what you pay for? Anyways, I’ve been reading up on Status2k, which is a commercial server monitoring software that many of the big hosts use. It “seems” very easy to install (based upon testimonials, forum posts, etc) and uses PHP and MySQL to run. I’ll be checking into this for sure. Link.

AIM: Lite

Chris — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:27:02 +0000

AOL is adopting a new motto of making “light, open, cutting-edge” software and it’s starting with AIM: Lite. Read about it here and download it here.

Pixel – “Photoshop” for Linux

Chris — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:21:12 +0000

This software looks freakin’ awesome. Supposedly, it does just about everything Photoshop does at a fraction of the cost ($79 for full version), and the best part, it’s available for Linux. Yes, Windows and Mac OS X also…but LINUX! Website and screenshots.

p.s. Did you notice their site runs on WordPress?

Foxit Reader

Chris — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:17:30 +0000

Foxit Reader 2.0 is out. It loads PDFs ultra fast, has a small footprint to install (1.5mb), and does everything Adobe does without the 10 minute startup time. Link.

Unix/Linux Timeline

Chris — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 23:57:30 +0000

Sheesh! This is a huge and very comprehensive “family tree” of the history of Unix, Linux, Solaris, etc. Huge…check it out.

Zenoss

Chris — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:36:08 +0000

Network monitoring software for Linux. Link.

Typetester

Chris — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:09:36 +0000

This is a great resource for testing and comparing different fonts for your site, before you actually make the change. Link.

Joyent Starts Bingo Disk

Chris — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 02:06:00 +0000

Bingo Disk, a new service created by Joyent, was started today. It’s 100gigs of online storage for $199 a year. WebDAV support, totally secure and practically impossible for data loss (by the hardware…if you delete it, you’re screwed). The whole thing runs off Sun Solaris 10 and their X4500 servers. I signed up…will post a review sometime in the future. In the meantime, I’ll be using it to backup tons of stuff (music, photos, etc.) and waiting to see how they integrate this into their TextDrive hosting system (which is planned).