For those who invest in Anti-virus protection for their *ix boxes. Years ago I remember John McAfee, Peter Norton, and Friðrik Skúlason all started their own anti-virus projects and all made anti-virus free to individuals. Over time Peter bought himself a gay bar in New York, John went mostly into high cost corporate products and…
Month: July 2012
New Project Site
Interesting project site. http://www.clubjameco.com/
Distributed Workforce
Well, isn’t that amazing…. DUH! Most people would prefer to be evaluated based upon what they actually achieve, not whether or not they sit and look pretty in an office. But will entrenched management “get it”? People cannot afford to just sit in an office anymore, and businesses can generate more profit if they change…
Mozilla ThunderBird (Email Client) project becoming more open
The Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client is discussing refocusing their internal resources in a new direction and possibly relying more heavily upon the global community to provide leadership and innovation for the project. There is speculation this is motivated by a desire to drop Desktop software and code only for “cloud” (Internet server) based services. I am not comfortable…
Group Editing using Linux / Emacs
Good post. http://technomancy.us/162 We’ve found SSH, tmux, and Emacs to be a great combination for this. The host prepares his machine with a new user created just for the purpose of swarming, and everyone is given the username, hostname, and password to log in over SSH. $ ssh swarm@zuse.local $ tmux attach Once logged in,…