Open Orifice or MS Orifice?

About twice a year I take a poke at both of the office product suites to see how they’re progressing. This past month I installed the latest OpenOffice 2.x flavor on both Ubuntu 7.04 and on Windows Vista, as well as Microsoft Office 2007 (on Vista only of course).
The shake-down result?
Well, it depends. [...]

Linux Experiment #43: Kids PC

Yes, I know. I have ranted and yakked on and on ad nauseum about Linux. Blabbering is one of my strong points. Ok, so while I pulled the virtual plug on my own Linux efforts (for now, not forever), I decided to victimize my helpless kids once again with techie experimentation. [...]

ASP, CFML, PHP

Back in 1994 when I first started cranking out HTML using vi on a Unix box, it was all HTML. Then came javascript and DHTML. Then came server-side scripting. The first language I learned was the infamous Cold Fusion. Touted for having the lowest learning ramp, it was an ideal tool [...]

Linux App Suggestions?

I finally reloaded my machine with Ubuntu 7.04 and have had a good experience so far.  However, I’m still looking to fill some gaps in terms of replacing what I had on Windows.  For one, a decent (e.g. reliable and pretty-looking) RAR extraction utility.  Preferably a GUI based app.  I was using WinRAR, but then [...]

Another inch closer…

…to switching to Ubuntu.  In addition to finding Floola, a very nice iTunes replacement, I tried out Pan again, but this time I installed the latest beta build.  It’s closer to Newsbin Pro, very close.  However, it doesn’t look like it has the features in Newsbin 5.34.  I still can’t find a decent substitute for [...]