MacUpdate has partnered with 10 Mac developers to bring us the MacUpdate Parallels bundle. The Deal: When you purchase bundles now, you’ll be the immediate owner of Hazel, Art Text, MenuCalendarClock, Leap, StoryMill, Typinator and DVDRemaster Pro. Then when the Mac community spreads the word and reaches 5,000 bundles sold, Sound Studio will be unlocked […]
A friend of mine and I have team up together to write some video projection software for use in churches during their worship times. The current most popular package costs over $400 and the freeware alternatives are lacking in several areas, so we are writing our own. It isn’t complete yet but the link to […]
MonoDevelop was recently released and I thought to try it on my CentOS 5 workstation… According to the Mono web site the prefered method for installing Mono on RedHat is to use yum. Once yum is installed, putting a mono.repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d will allow you to install mono and related packages. BUT this is […]
Linux is being used to power PayPal’s entire electronic payment processing system.Their Linux system is currently processing $1,571 worth of transactions per second in 17 different currencies. But know-it-all web user knows better, told to apply for job at PayPal.read more | digg story
I have had another article published by the folks over at Linux.com. This one is about using Swap Space with Linux. It has some techniques that may help you better manage swapping on Linux systems and get the best performance from the Linux swapping subsystem. Read it here: Linux Swap Space
I have started another blog over at tumblr.com, I only just found out about tumblr (I know, where have I been living under a rock) but I really like their interface! Here is the URL: http://garysims.tumblr.com/
The BBC have reported that a British schoolteacher has been arrested in Sudan accused of insulting Islam’s Prophet, after she allowed her pupils to name a teddy bear Muhammad. Apparently this isn’t an insult because it was a teddy bear called Muhammad but rather that it is seen as an insult to Islam to attempt […]
Francois Bancilhon has all but accused Microsoft of dirty tactics in an open letter to Steve Ballmer concerning a Mandriva contract with the Nigerian government. Francois then asks Steve “What have you done to these guys to make them change their mind like this?” Attached comments imply that Microsoft paid them to switch to Windows.read […]
Three fighters from Romania were thrown out of the World Boxing Championships after they were caught trying to steal from a department store in Chicago. Romania is a wonderful country and it is a real shame that fools likes this spoil its worldwide image.read more | digg story
Since this is getting international press coverage we would be negligent not to mention it here. Today is the day of Mac OS X 10.5 (AKA Leopard).If you have been living under a rock for the last 3 months and don’t know what Leopard is they you can see more here. read more | digg […]