progress update

Posted by Adrian on Apr 27, 2007 in Open Source | 0 comments I haven’t blogged for a few weeks on the progress of our migration project.  The main change for us in migrating to a new open source system is that our CRM is moving from MS Access to a totally new web ased system. This involves an awful lot of work to write a new system from scratch that meets our needs as a specialist label printer.  Rich has found this to take longer than we...
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LUGradio podcasts to hear expert topical open source debates

Posted by Adrian on Apr 15, 2007 in Open Source | 0 comments Some time ago I had the pleasure of doing a PHP course at openadvantage.org run by Jono Bacon.  I remember a conversation at the time about LUGradio, which at the time I put down to his passion for heavy metal music, which isnt my taste.  I have only just worked out that LUG means Linux User Group, and that LUGradio is a podcast on linux.  So I downloaded the latest MP3 podcast (my first...
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fed up with microsoft unreliability, again…

Posted by Adrian on Apr 15, 2007 in Open Source | 1 comment I posted some weeks ago about our main microsoft server at work falling over becuase it was raining, or some other meaningless reason.  Well, yesterday, it happened again, but was sunny. OK, its nothing to do with the weather, but the serious point is that in my experience the timing of failures on our microsoft server is either random, or is significantly delayed from the start of the...
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Experience of installing my first Ubuntu OS on an old Dell PC

Posted by Adrian on Apr 10, 2007 in Open Source | 3 comments Last night I  reformatted my my PC and installed Ubuntu Feisty Fawn beta on it, the first client PC we have moved completely to open source. I had tried the ISO version as a demo which was slow, but seemed to work ok.  As it is a spare PC at home, it didnt matter if it didn’t work, as the exercise was really just an experimental  confidence booster. Cutting straight to it, it...
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choosing, installing and an initial review of the office package – openoffice.org

Posted by Adrian on Apr 8, 2007 in Open Source | 2 comments Ever since the early days of this project, I had seen the openoffice.org suite, and decided that it was good enough for us in almost every way.  In fact, I took this decision on the basis of 1 presentation from the guys at openadvantage.org and a couple of minutes surfing of reviews.  Today, I dediced to download the latest version, and set the defaults on my PC to run all my word...
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learning how to run linux at command line with only a DOS and windows bckground

Posted by Adrian on Apr 7, 2007 in coding, Open Source | 1 comment although the techies love it,probably for good reason, a lotof user interface with linux is at the command line, not the usual GUI interface that we are geneticly engineered to know and understand…. this means that if you really want to use some of the linux features and functions, you have to know how to use the command line. I have some basic unix experience from numerical modelling...
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