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5 Ways To Peak Your WiFi Feng Shui: Featuring the Radiolabs Stage 1 Parabolic Antenna - Gizmodo

Of course, they missed out what the real WIFI engineers use - tried and true amplifiers. 80211.net has some of the best.

Interestin that I missed this article, but not too surprising given the article’s author. I find it interesting that Ubuntu get’s top honors. It proves more that religion and community clicks win out more than true capability.

Another interesting fact is that Fedora came in 5th? Wow. The Red Hat slide is becoming more visible.

In this article Eric Raymond speaks out his mind on Desktop Linux. I agree with some points, but not one. Eric mentions that the adoption will only accelerate when the desktop supports 64 bit processors. I disagree. Most are pretty happy with their 32 bit processors to the extent that the chip manufacturers are pushing dual core vs 64 bit. Yes, 64 bit will become relevant, but it has to take hold in the server space and the prices need to come down to a reasonable level before the consumer will take advantage of it. In addition, 64 bit app support is few and far between in all worlds, especially in the consumer world. Eric must have received a spiff for touting 64 bit from someone.

Florida’s first real brush with a named storm in the 2006 hurricane season has passed without much fanfare. Here in Tampa we received a bit of rain, but nothing more. This morning’s showers has now lent itself to the sunshine and aside from the high humidity, it’s a nice day.

On another life note, Nick and Nate are doing well. Nick still needs lots of food and Nate must be going thru a growth spurt since he is in need of more food than he usually wants as well. Work continues to drone on and I continue to drone with it.

Labor day weekend is about upon us. Looking forward to a 3 day weekend and leaving the work drone behind. James and Jeffrey are with us this weekend and with any luck, pool time and play time will abound (barring the afternoon thunderstorm!).

An interesting way to use del.icio.us!
SHIFT.Communications.Novell.SUSELinuxEnterprise10’s bookmarks on del.icio.us

Do you use Gmail? If so you may wish to mount the Gmail Filesystem on your box and take advantage of a free 2g of storage. Not much, but portable and readily available.

Haven’t tried it myself.

If I ever thought a person was on crack, it’d be Tom Yager of Infoworld. He wrote this article where he predicts the market will send linux packing in favor of Windows and Apple? OMG. Where the hell did he get that stuff. I want some!

Let me clue you in to something, Tom. Linux has been put in the limelight for one reason and one reason alone. It’s OPEN. Windows is there right now because of ONE reason. Monopolistic practices. Apple has risen from the dead for ONE reason. iPods.

Apple and Windows will never be open. The beauty of open source is the fact that I can do with it what I please. I have the ability to shift the direction in my favor, make a one off that satisfies my needs, and I have millions of others that are willing and able to help me do it. Better yet, I have several companies that are waiting with bated breath to help me do what I want with open source.

What Tom misses is another fact. There are other very large companies out there that outsize both Apple and Microsoft combined who want Microsoft out of business. The combination of these companies is quite formidable and they are not about to let little ole Apple get in the way.

Last point. Apple misses KEY infrastructure in both their server and pc lines. Applications. Microsoft has been the leader in this space due to the development focus they have had. Key word…had. The problem that MS created is they didn’t think out this strategy and in some cases it has put them out of business and in others it has created such a security problem, that they are being forced to close it up and this is making it very hard on the developers. Linux on the other hand - has millions of apps. Most need refinement, but they are there and getting better with age just as Linux is doing.

Put that in your crack pipe, Mr Yager. Get back under your rock.

In this ZDNet interview with Mike Melanson, the Adobe Flash Player v9 for Linux is discussed. This player is much needed due primarily to the sweeping changes to the Flash specs that make it incompatible with earlier players. Good, new technology, but as usual companies don’t put a priority on Linux and they will fall behind in the dust if they don’t change that stance quickly. New technology will come out that will usurp the proprietary technology and bye-bye to the closed parts that lag behind.

Neil states the obvious, but in an interesting way…Novell and Red Hat compete for the king penguin crown | InfoWorld | Column | 2006-08-21 | By Neil McAllister

I find it very interesting that he insinuates Redhat is becoming the “old” Novell. In some respects, I wish everyone else did.

I’ve been doing more and more research into Virtualization as it’s become quite the topic of conversation. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 includes XEN 3.0 with the distribution and now IBM states it will support SLES10 and XEN 3.0 on it’s servers.
IBM To Support Xen Virtualization Software For Suse 10 Linux - Industries News by InformationWeek

I’ll have to post more details regarding Virtualization in future posts.