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Wither the SLED/SLES clones

Well, a certain well known North American Linux vendor released version 5 of their Enterprise Linux just recently. Already the clones are popping up. So where are the SLED/SLES clones?

We have life!

After several false starts, the Ubuntu Magazine idea has relaunched again, with a rocking plan and a great beta. You can read more on the UbuntuMagazine wiki page or on the forum thread.

You can see the beta directly at this forum post

Ubuntu is your workplace, please act as such

No, ikke, I am not laughing. Ubuntu is not the pub, nor is this the 1950's. It is a workplace, in the 21st century, where such things as sexual harrasment exist. Companies have Codes of Conduct and so do we. Would this joke cause a sexual harrasment suit in a "real" office? Very likely. A similar joke nearly caused one in my workplace recently and was a key reason in a female employee leaving my company.

Also, 2% and dropping isn't a very funny number.

Oh joy of joys

I have just been delivered a new laptop with Windows Vista basic. Please excuse the hold music while I burn a Feisty cd. Too bad work won't let me nuke this Windows garbage.

Andrew Mitchell rocks my world

Seems Andrew Mitchell (ajmitch) has been beavering away on his tool to solve the Ubuntu-doesn't-play-easily-with-LDAP/AD problem. He made the mistake of showing me the beginnings of a GTK tool to join an Ubuntu machine to an Active Directory or OpenLDAP/Fedora Directory Server environment. So of course I had to blog it.

If you launch it on an Ubuntu computer, you would get something similar to the following:

If you want to join a computer to a domain, you would see this (or something very similar):

One step closer to world domination and fixing Bug #1!

Listening to my own advice

Reading the archives of one's blog is something everybody should do once and a while. Besides cringing at my terrible grammer, spelling and general proofreading, I stumbled upon an old blog entry about the Open Street Map project from January 2006, in which I told people to get off their tosh and help them. Seems I neglected to follow my own advice until recently (I blame my lack of GPS, honest). Thanks to Yahoo graciously sharing their high res satellite photos, the large blank area that was Victoria is now a bit more colourful:

and the live map of Victoria

Pictures tell the story 37signals, makers of cool but sadly non-free web-based software, just announced a new CRM, Highrise (You can read more about it on their blog, Signal vs Noise. Shame I only found out about it today, as Userful just signed on with Netsuite for another 5 years. As ugly things make me mad, you probably don't need to guess what I felt like after seeing the comparison below:

Netsuite's Person Record

vs Highrise's

Netsuite's Company Record

There are another 3 to 5 pages of stuff below this and that includes the notes, which are hidden by default...

vs Highrise's

For the record, the Netsuite shots are live from my account.

Installing Gimmie

Given my last blog post, I guess I should explain how easy it is to install and try Gimmie. You will need the gimmie package.

After it is installed, you can add it to the panel like any other applet.

It then looks like this:

PS: This is not the new install codecs on demand, which uses a library called gimmie-codec and which also rocks. This is the "Panel Revisited".

In which branding helped

I was sitting in my Arabic class tonight and pulled out my laptop to take notes in Tomboy. I also just switched to Gimmie, which has a giant "Linux" button now. No sooner had I logged in then I got asked "You use Linux. Hey I tried that Ubuntu thing..." So Alex, you were right. Branding with Linux makes sense

Stop Energy

Don't pay attention to it. That is all I have to say.