For a long time I have noticed that the pace of development of rdesktop seemed to have slowed, and that the rdesktop-users mailing list had gone quiet. What I hadn’t noticed until recently is that there is now an alternative called FreeRDP.
FreeRDP is a fork of the rdesktop project that intends to rapidly start moving forward and implement features that rdesktop lacks the most.
I had never heard of fsniper until it was mentioned in a mailing list today, but it sounds excellent:
Linux.com :: Automatically process new files with fsniper
Now I am wondering if I can use it to prompt an rsync to sync our shared documents to our remote site, and it seems I could. This is a major headache for me, as we have two branches and a shared documents repository.
We’ve all had occasions when we have needed to find where all our disk space has gone, well under KDE3.5 it was easy - you just ran Konqueror and then selected View » View Mode » File Size View. But shock horror, under KDE4 that option seemed to be missing. Fortunately it was only an apt-get away:
I’ve decided to move to a proper blogging platform, rather than continue to use my home grown solution. Please update your feed reader to:
I did consider setting up my own Wordpress server, but rightly or wrongly I decided to save myself the effort, time will tell whether that was the right decision or not!
Nothing annoys me more than this - companies that use the Linux operating system for their devices, but who don’t provide a driver for Linux clients to access the same devices. For example Garmin, Tom Tom and Road Angel to name but three that have effected me personally. I know that the counter argument is that we want Linux to be used by these companies, and I appreciate that they may well be contributing in other ways, but this still upsets me.
I have decided to set up a web for my wider family, as a place to chat and share information. I’ve had some experience with Drupal 6, but knowing how tough it can be to upgrade between versions of Drupal, I decided to opt for Drupal 7.
Drupal is great for one main reason - it is extendible to the n’th degree - a Drupal site can be a blog, a forum, a static site, a database application. In fact there is very little you can’t do with a Drupal site. There is a price to be paid for all the functionality, I do see Drupal as being something of a jack of all trades and yet a master of none, but, if you want flexibility without the need to host multiple services, then Drupal is it.
Apparently I am not the only one that thinks that the Debian graphics are appalling:
| [Debian 6: First Impressions | Linux Magazine](http://www.linux-mag.com/id/8188/) |
I have looked into moving to Barclays on-line business banking, but apparently it requires a hardware card reader that only works on Windows and Mac. This is a major problem as we run Linux everywhere and only access Windows via RDP to a virtual server.
I don’t have the HP Management suite installed on my HP Proliant servers, largely because they proved to be a huge resource hog, but I would like to be able to monitor stuff. On PCs I am used to being able to use lm-sensors, so thought I’d give that a go. Installing it prompted me to install ipmitool, which in turn needs openipmi.
Just installed Etherpad on our openvz server. Having created an openvz guest for the purpose, running Debian Squeeze, installing Etherpad proved no more difficult than adding the Etherpad repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
