http://www.jsimmons.co.uk Applied Information Technology Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:10:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have been an keen advocate of open source software and Linux in particular since discovering it back in early 2000, and the power it gave me to manage network environments. Network engineering is more core skill, and I discovered Linux and a myriad of network management tools ... http://www.jsimmons.co.uk/2010/03/01/the-linux-desktop/ Pictured below are the people involved in creating and developing Ubuntu Linux. This is just before version 9.10 was launched. if you have not tried Linux before. I recommend you give Ubuntu Linux a try. Many thanks for all your hard work guys. http://www.jsimmons.co.uk/2009/12/14/thank-you-ubuntu-developement-team/ If you read my article on " What is Applied Information Technology" you will see that I take the view that the use of technology in business should create strong benefits, otherwise technology becomes a burden. You should be able to see a direct business benefit in the operation of ... http://www.jsimmons.co.uk/2009/12/02/how-to-fail-even-with-good-technology/ Have you seen those adverts on the web or in the internet mags advertising server co-location. Co-location is where you pay a company to place your server on the internet in a data center. You pay a monthly or fee and you may sometimes a setup fee. Just like a ... http://www.jsimmons.co.uk/2009/06/01/caveat-emptor-buyer-beware/ A rather dangerous security flaw which can cause major havoc on the ability to deliver internet services has been discovered. A team of security researchers have discovered a security flaw in the protocol called TCP. TCP is the blood that flows through the internet. Without TCP the internet would not ... http://www.jsimmons.co.uk/2008/10/04/sockstress-is-able-to-cause-internet-meltdown/ The New York Stock Exchange depends on Red Hat Linux to perform. They use Linux for trading systems and they purchase support from Redhat. Key fetures looked for are: Speed Reliability Cost Flexibility http://www.jsimmons.co.uk/2008/10/01/nyse-depends-on-linux-to-perform/ The Great Office War from Runawaybox on Vimeo. http://www.jsimmons.co.uk/2008/09/11/another-day-in-the-office/ I have recently come across a very promising ecommerce product called Magento. The current version is 1.14. At the time of writing this post, Magento is just over 1 year old. It is still a very young product and show's great promise. It is designed using current PHP coding standards, ... http://www.jsimmons.co.uk/2008/09/04/magento-open-source-ecommerce/ When you boot from a Ubuntu Live CD, you do not get access to your LVM volumes. LVM is a storage arrangement which allows you to create a file system across multiple discs. For example If you have 2 500GB discs, You can make a file system 1TB in ... http://www.jsimmons.co.uk/2008/09/04/using-lvm-with-a-ubuntu-live-cd/ Over the past few months quite a my friends and associates have been complaining about the latest windows operating system, Windows Vista. The complaints range from the fact that they perceive windows vista to be slow, or certain hardware devices or programs have stopped working since installing Vista. Some problems have been so hard ... http://www.jsimmons.co.uk/2008/07/11/you-do-have-a-choice/