Software

Here's another victory: Managing to get TurboLucene to work on Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS.

I need to share this victory with you all! I finally managed to get Apache 2 on Ubuntu 8.04 to authenticate against Windows Active Directory.

As a consultant, you get to see a lot of specifications, or rather, missing specifications in action.

The problems and solutions encountered trying to format a USB disk for Linux and Windows XP.

Small notes regarding arstascouterna.org s upgrading from plone 2.1.1 to plone 2.5.5

It's said that when you are 95% done in a software project, half the work to be done remains. The Uncertian Constants Drives Cost principle is one factor behind this observation.

Having attended courses about medical software development and IEC 60601, TIR32, IEC62304 and ISO 14971 I've made a short evaluation on medical software development using Visual Source Safe (VSS).

It's becoming a big flood of large goverment organizations opting in for Open Source. US Navy is the latest.

As reported by the Open Road, the EU is recognizing the value and importance of Open Source and open standards.

Firefox celebrates 500+ Million downloads by giving away rice...

For the international developers who like me search for excellence and tries to not repeat others mistakes, hers are a few facts from Swedish road administrations expensive road toll project.

Martin on streamlining support vs. the need to modify.

Cape Horn. One of those places we all have some image of. It where two oceans meet and a huge continent ends. It's at the edge of a country know for beauty, brutality and for endless hope.

"I need your silence, your big wide open spaces" The Usual sings. So let me explain why Enterprise Consulting is going to disappoint most good programmers.

While I've been struggling programmaing media logistics systems for Windows .NET (there got to be a better way), Edwin R. Leonard (DreamWorks) wins an Annie Award for promoting Linux in animation.

"Eventually all of the [US] Army's networks will be Linux-based"

"Last month Python surpassed Perl for the first time in history"

If you haven't got a programmers knowledge of IT and still need IT, you end up paying premium and buying from the safe big vendors. Unfortunately for the UK, that has lead to $4 billion in failed IT projects.

Last year I learned the concept 'declaring email bankrupcy'. This year Swedish largest temephone operator and internet service provider Telia heads the news for having lost 300.000 custommers emails, a total estimated 1.9 million emails just before Christmas. Read below for more...

HP and RedHat has achieved Common Criteria certification at the EAL 4 level with the Labeled Security Protection Profile (LSPP) for HP servers running RHEL5.

RHEL5 has also been certified to run on IBM hardware obtaining the highest level of security certification achievable by commercial off-the-shelf operating systems.

Today many newspaper in Sweden reports how several companies in last minute has bought themselves a place in the Swedish Institue of Standards (SIS) in order to make shure the OOXML from Micriosoft becomes standard disregarding the preparing work done within SIS.

Update: The SIS opted for not voting at all at the ISO meeting due to this controversy.

Have you ever had the feeling that centralized IT department in companies tend to inhibit quality, progress and efficency but never been able to pinpoint why? Here´s my analysis.