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Upgrading? Choose open source first

Posted on 17/09/2012 by Steve Woods

A study by Prof. Jim Norton recommends that CIOs looking to replace legacy systems should consider open source options over proprietary software or public cloud services, according to a report published today by Australia’s ITNews. The report was commissioned by … Continue reading →

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Brazil – a testimonial

Posted on 18/07/2012 by Steve Woods

Casas Bahia is a major domestic electrical appliances retailer in Brazil with 53,000 employees and over 500 stores. For the last 5 years it’s been successfully running SuSE Linux on its mainframes and point-of-sale systems with zero downtime as the … Continue reading →

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Bristol Wireless on Techradar

Posted on 01/01/2012 by Steve Woods

Regular readers will remember that we had a visit from journalist Jonathan Edwards (news passim) which ultimately resulted in Bristol Wireless being the subject of a four-page feature in the Christmas 2011 edition (issue 158) of Linux Format (news passim). … Continue reading →

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Now in the shops (in Portugal): Ubuntu netbooks

Posted on 19/11/2011 by Steve Woods

As of this week, Asus Eee PC 1215P netbooks preloaded with Ubuntu Linux are available in the shops – as long as you do your shopping in Portugal. The Canonical blog reports that the ASUS Ubuntu netbooks can be bought … Continue reading →

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Mr Treasurer’s eeePC – an update

Posted on 10/10/2011 by Steve Woods

A couple of years ago, we reported on Mr Treasurer’s eeePC (news passim). Regular readers will be pleased to hear it’s still performing well, as evidenced by the following (slightly edited for greater legibility – although the hashtags have been … Continue reading →

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Thank you to all our readers

Posted on 29/08/2011 by Steve Woods

The chief scribe had just been examining our website statistics, as provided by the excellent open source AWstats package (a contraction of Advanced Web statistics. Ed.), and thought readers may be interested in their revelations. For the first time since … Continue reading →

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Happy sysadmin day

Posted on 29/07/2011 by Steve Woods

Yes, you did read that correctly; today, Friday 29th July is System Administrator Appreciation Day, the 12th since its inception. For 364 days of the year sysadmins toil away unappreciated, their arcane skills only really being noticed when a problem … Continue reading →

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A tale of 2 hard drives

Posted on 12/05/2011 by Steve Woods

Two weeks ago, your correspondent made one of his regular trips to Stoke on Trent to do a routine back-up of his 79 year-old mother’s computer, which happens to be running Windows XP. The back-up went smoothly: I took a … Continue reading →

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Hotot Twitter client

Posted on 15/04/2011 by Steve Woods

People who know BW’s chief scribe know he’s a great fan of Twitter, the social networking and microblogging website. Over the past couple of years, he’s tried out various Linux Twitter clients, ranging from quick and dirty Python scripts for … Continue reading →

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BW accounts now running on Gnucash

Posted on 11/05/2010 by Steve Woods

It’s been a while (almost 2 years to the day. Ed.) since we last looked at Gnucash, the personal and small-business software that’s available for free under the GPL for Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows (news … Continue reading →

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