Viewing Articles with the tag: open-source
7-Zip: Compression vs. Speed
14.Dec.07 | 5 Comments
Earlier this year I had discovered the joys of running 7-Zip with the multi threaded support. At the time, I saw some incredible time savings. Since then, however, the files being compressed have gotten much larger and I’m back to some inordinately long compression runs.
As a quick refresher, 7-Zip is an open source file [...]
More on Remote Desktop: Royal TS
23.Aug.07 | 3 Comments
Last week I mentioned the nifty ability of Remote Desktop to connect to the console on Windows 2003 servers. As part of that, I mentioned the command line option and a Vista gadget.
The neighbor and I were chatting earlier this week. Knowing that he spends a lot of time connecting to remote servers, I [...]
Bandwidth Monitoring and …
17.Jul.07 | 3 Comments
When it comes to network management, I’ve always been more of a “let’s buy some switches and pull some cable” kind of guy. Actually managing, extending and supporting an existing network was never all that interesting to me.
Now that it’s party of my job, however, I suddenly care a lot more than I used [...]
Frets On Fire
09.Jun.07 | 39 Comments
I recently discovered Frets on Fire, an open source game very similar to the Guitar Hero games. Guitar Hero is one of those games I’ve never owned, but always looked longingly at — I’m just not ready to commit to a gaming console. But oooh, I want to play!
Frets on Fire appears to [...]
No Ubuntu Today
24.Apr.07 | 3 Comments
I noticed that the 7.04 “Feisty Fawn” release of Ubuntu was recently announced. My work laptop has been giving me some grief lately so on a whim I grabbed the ISO, booted from it and installed Ubuntu.
The laptop is a two year old Toshiba Tecra, running the 1.60GHz Pentium M and Centrino chipset. [...]
