In the latest trending release from marketshare.net an interesting market share hit to IE and Safari took place in the month of November.
Here are some statistics from Jan 2009 to Nov 2009.
You can see that Opera is nearly flat for the year, while Chrome has had over a 150% increase in usage, and the biggest drops come from IE, and month over month [ continue reading... ]

Sun Microsystem is holding a webinar for the latest release of VirtualBox 3.1 titled, What’s New in 3.1.
Slated for the Webinar is:

Teleportation
Speedups
Snapshots 2.0
Live demo

You can register at the link below:
https://dct.sun.com/dct/forms/reg_us_0712_490_0.jsp

Today at work we ran into quite a crappy issue, which thankfully I read about a few days ago.
We started having some guests that were unresponsive, with the following error in /var/log/messages on the underlined ESXi 4 Server:
“NMP: nmp_DeviceAttemptFailover: Retry world failover device “naa.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx””
After talking to some of the other Admins, and looking at previous tasks and events, I saw that someone was trying to [ continue reading... ]

On Dec 1st, Nokia released QT 4.6.
The major new improvements are: (from nokia’s website)
Here’s a little video of the Hand Gestures:

Do you think QT will be the cross platform IDE of choice in the future? I believe it’s development speed, and improvements could catapult it to being the leading platform in Mobile Devices, and could possibly form Windows to be usable.

I’ve been reading a story about the Dell Latitude E6500 BIOS and possible over throttling during normal operating conditions, and decided to upgrade my BIOS. Although this task for windows users is pretty straight forward (you download the .EXE binary, and run it). However, with Linux we don’t run the .EXE binary natively.
So our option is to create a FreeDOS Bootable USB, to boot [ continue reading... ]

If you’ve recently have had problems logging into your yahoo account you may not be the only one. On my systems all of a sudden it stopped working and once I added the host entry bammm it worked.. (was able to ping the name just fine, so forward lookups were ok..)
But here’s what I had to do:
Add:
66.163.181.173 scs.msg.yahoo.com
into /etc/hosts
have fun, hope it [ continue reading... ]

Opera 10 Beta 1 was release yesterday and I decided to give it a whirl on my openSUSE 11.1 workstation, and boy was the performance, appearance and overall experience was phenomenal.
I personally use the browser for Mail (IMAP w/ GMAIL), RSS and ATOM feeds, IRC and Web Browsing. Although there are some room for improvement on future releases (a folders for RSS feeds, more [ continue reading... ]

Have you gotten the itch to install OpenOffice.org 3.1? Are you running openSUSE? Well you’re in luck. The openSUSE Build Service has had the OpenOffice beta packages for a bit in their UNSTABLE OpenOffice Build Service.
Wonder what OpenOffice.org 3.1 will bring and why it’s a much anticipated release? Here’s some snippit’s from the oooninja.com:
Antialiased drawings
By far, the most requested feature in this release is [ continue reading... ]

As the excitement of SLED 11’s release swirls around, Novell has given the opportunity for people to get a Sneak Peek. Here’s some verbage from Novell’s site:
SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 delivers interoperability and mission-critical support for your complete computing environment—desktop to data center, physical and virtual. Get your Sneak Preview today and see how it can help you reduce cost, complexity and risk.
Interoperability
The most [ continue reading... ]

So right on the cusps of the Emergency patch release by Microsoft on Oct 17th, I decided to try to read up on it (I run Linux, so I was immune anyways). Read More about that here
But to my surprise when I went to go read up on security on Microsoft’s stuff, I thought “Hey, they must have a security subdomail”, so I went to [ continue reading... ]

Today one of my co-workers ran Partition Magic on his work box, to free up some contiguous free space to expand his C partition (System). However, as he was moving the non system partition to the end of the disk (to get contiguous free space) his computer shut off.
He then tried to boot up, and Windows came up with the normal “File missing or [ continue reading... ]

Switching from Windows to Linux and what you need to know:
Since we are in touch economic times the most important question is “How much will this cost me”? The answer is nothing, zero, zilch or nada. Whatever phrase you want to use (unless you’re really a stickler and want to divide your monthly Internet bandwidth cost against the time it took you to download [ continue reading... ]

As you may have noticed currently there is no package in the openSUSE 11.0 update repo to install Microsoft fonts during your openSUSE 11.0 installation. As we have learned that sometimes you just need fonts like Times New Roman and many others that are provided from Microsoft.
So, are you here because you wanted to find out how to install the said fonts. So here’s [ continue reading... ]

So you may be using VMWare Workstation on a nice shiny Linux box, just to find out you cannot use your Bridged networking over the Wireless Card, confining you to the sofa nearest to your Router sitting in an obscure place. So what do you do? You fix it of course.
How?
Download this patched version of vmnet.tar created by Hauke-m from the VMWare Forums and Funderburg [ continue reading... ]

So, have you recently had to run a Microsoft Windows Repair on a machine using the Windows XP CD and then were unable to do a Windows Update? Well, you can thanks M$ for that. What happened? Whelp first off, your Windows XP Version is now 7.0.6000.381 and that is where the issue stems. WU’s have changed quite a bit from that version and to [ continue reading... ]