Random Toad

Wow!

Yeah, I know it’s everybodies favorite buzz word, but here’s some software that will try and free you from buying Windows Servers, Group Policies are good http://www.nitrobit.com/GroupPolicy.html To me, the idea behind the Open Source Enterprise is to reduce cost, improve flexibility & maintainability. It’s likely that there will always be a need for Windows desktops in most SMEs, unless it’s a clean sheet site & you can avoid getting locked in at the start.

Just seen an excellent example of this over at http://wanderingbarque.com/everfixedmark/2005/04/16/the-things-they-married/trackback/

I used an old Blackberry 5820 for a while, I was working on a project that took advantage of it’s Java environment, GPRS connectivity & a serial port to verify single use barcodes for event promotion, I was quite taken with the email on the go, it’s much slicker that IMAP/POP3 on your Phone over WAP or a crap email tool on the phone (I’ve had several Sone Ericssons, T68i, T610 & T630, they have a mail tool which is useable, but not very.

In my day job, my company does a lot of work with BEA WebLogic & Ultimus, both of which have BPM stuff, both of which are very resrouce intensive (memory, cpu, time, money), is there an alternative? http://www.citi.qut.edu.au/members/research_areas/bpm/projects/yawl/ http://xflow.sourceforge.net/

So I’ve had Debian Unstable on the laptop for a week or two now and I think I’ve finished all the config/migrate work. I’ve got the wireless card working (using ipw2100 & waproamd, I tried wpasupplicant, but I only need WEP and WEP is broken for wpasuplicant & ipw2100’s), gprs over bluetooth and the the built-in modem (using sl-modem-daemon & sl-modem-source). I haven’t got suspend working at all, for disk or memory.

I thought I’d start a blog, to record some useful or interesting events, I don’t like PHP � prefer Perl, so I found this one, I already use the guys Photo Gallery Software here, but I found the blog quite limiting, so jumped to SixApart’s MovableType…