Topics by John A

The French parliament is now going to dump Windows in favour of open-source. More specifically, Linux. The planned switch date is June 2007, with over 1000 parliament workers switching. No word yet on what Linux distribution they're going to use, or what email client -- one thing is for sure: …

Ever had trouble remembering if that website ended in .com, .net, or .org? Well, your troubles just got a whole lot worse. [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7475986.stm[/url] "We're running out of .com addresses? Let's just let people register whatever extension they want!" Brilliant ICANN, just brilliant. And it looks like some of those TLDs …

I think we've all observed the trend of eye candy incrementally increasing in the user interface of consumer operating systems, particularly the commercial ones. Vista's Aero and OS X's Aqua are perfect examples: both use large amounts of transparency, and contain "sparkle" in the windows designed to enhance a user's …

So here's the deal -- I'm dual-booting Mac OS X and Windows XP on my MacBook. On Mac OS X, I have the clock synced to network time. And, being a good Unix system, it sets the system time to GMT. That's all fine and dandy until I install Windows, …

Since this became a debate in the other thread, I thought it would have enough weight to become its own thread. Thus, I'm posting this here. If you want to whine about code tags, then take a looksie over here: [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread84443.html[/url] Basically I'm asking for your opinion on a code …

Hey everyone, isn't Mac OS X great? The only problem is that a lot of open-source software is only for Linux. Well, there will never be an end-all solution, but there's many ways of making it better. Here are the solutions I recommend: - Dual-booting Mac OS X and Linux …

Hello all, This is a relatively simple problem I ran into when designing my site, so hopefully you can help me out here. I have a div like so (for example): [code=html]<div class="box">testing</div>[/code] And here's the CSS: [code=css].box { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 50px; color: red; background-color: blue; }[/code] …

I'm writing this to let you know that I've found "bug" in the Dashboard widget iStat. It's not a bug per se, but you should know about it. iStat offers many statistics about your Mac -- amount of time running since reboot, temperature, fan speed, etc, etc. However, if you …

Debian Linux is what you might call very, very flexible because it runs on nearly any hardware configuration, from Motorola chips to PowerPC to the x86 structure. So whatever your machine is Debian Linux can most likely run on it. However, because installation is so different between different setups, this …

Here's (in my opinion) some of the best Linux software available: [B] Stuff for your GUI:[/B] [URL]http://www.kde.org/[/URL] Still using Gnome? Need a more powerful environment? Maybe you should try KDE. It's a matter of personal choice, but I prefer it to Gnome. [URL]http://www.kde-look.org/[/URL] Allows you to download skins and anything …

Hi, this never really bothered me before, but now it sort of does. My ADSL connection's IP address is DHCP assigned, and when I first got it, I just plugged it into my Mac, and it worked painlessly, so I never gave it much more thought. But one thing I …

I finally got one of those MacBook beauties! So I set about putting Wine on it so I can finally access some of the programs I've been missing out on as a Mac user. So when I try to run Darwine, it says it can't find the truetype libraries. When …

My iMac G5 has had this problem already for a little while, and I think it's in need of codecs reinstall. iTunes and QuickTime work normally, but that's about it. RealPlayer and Windows Media Player 9 play video, but without sound. Same goes for their respective browser plugins. I think …