Another guest posting over at Freewaregenius today. I really enjoyed writing this article because the tool I found just seems like it will be pretty helpful in my day-to-day work. The tool is called MultiBoot USB and it makes the creation of a bootable USB drive with multiple Linux distributions on it a breeze. For me, this means I can carry GParted, Clonezilla, DBaN, Offline … [Read more...]
Status.net and Sharetronix, a “Twitter” You Own and Control
Twitter has had phenomenal growth and reaches millions of people daily. From the outside looking in, it seems they were able to accomplish this while not following the traditional path of getting everything exactly right. Particularly recently, Twitter has a high rate of downtime and a high response time. Combined with the "Older Tweets are not available..." message, I looked … [Read more...]
Recycle Your Gadgets for Free or for Cash with Gazelle
There's a guest post with my name on it over at Freewaregenius. Today's article is about Gazelle.com, a site that assists recycling your used gadgets. If they're really old, Gazelle will ship you a box to return the gadget to them for proper disposal. If it has value, they'll send you a quoted amount of money. It might be a whole lot easier than trying to find a buyer on eBay … [Read more...]
Use HP Web Jetadmin To Simplify Printer Management
In my organization, our networked laser printers are mostly made by HP and we have a large number of them so anything to make managing them and their consumables would be a godsend. One of the things to manage them, HP's Web Jetadmin, has been out there for quite a while but I finally got around to check it out. At this point, anything that can save time and make up for the … [Read more...]
Experiences with Three PHP Frameworks in Brief
I'm by no means a PHP developer but I do like to tinker around with it on the side for fun projects on my own and very rarely if something comes up at work. (A lot of my work involves filling in the gaps. Why just last week I was a Visual Basic 2008 programmer again.) Before embarking on my next project, I decided to check out some of the PHP frameworks I've heard about to look … [Read more...]