Thursday, June 26, 2003

HP to Resell, Support SuSE Linux. Hewlett-Packard Co. and SuSE Linux on Thursday will announce that they have entered into an agreement that allows HP to resell and support SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 on industry-standard HP ProLiant servers and HP's Itanium-based servers. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis] Keep an eye on SuSE. There doing some good stuff lately. Check out their Desktop for Enterprise edition and their server products. 12:28:20 PM    comment []

Very Richest's Share of Income Grew Even Bigger, Data Show. The income of the 400 wealthiest taxpayers grew steadily in the years 1992 to 2000, while their tax burden plummeted. By David Cay Johnston. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] And this is a surprise? [Jon Israelson's Blog] This is something that's drawing more and more attention. My wife and I have been talking about the growing gap among the classes in America. We've been seeing newspaper stories, TV news stories, and Internet stories on this over the past 6 months. It's amazing that we're in the turn of another century and in some ways, economically, we're looking like the turn of the last. 10:59:58 AM    comment []

The second week of running Linux on my work laptop is moving along smoothly. I've only had to boot Windows once. I needed to edit a Word document that someone else had created and I didn't want to munge the layout and formatting with OpenOffice. (I tried, but it kind of munged it.) I upgraded the laptop last night to Redhat 9. Instead of actually doing an upgrade, I decided to wipe and re-install. I backed up my home directory and nuked it. Everything went smoothly. Once I got Java re-installed and the system updated with the latest fixes, I was ready to rock and roll. So far, I only have a few beefs. Here they are: APM - flaky. But, as a coworker pointed out, it's flaky under Windows, too. BUT, it's really flaky under Linux. Why can't my Intel machines work like my Mac? I put it to sleep and it powers down almost instantly. I hit a button and BOOM there it is, awake and ready to do my bidding. Laptop hardware support. I can't hotswap the DVD-ROM for my extra hard drive in my modular bay. Just won't work. (Haven't tried on RH 9 yet). Wireless card. I have an older Linksys wireless card. I wasn't able to get it working in RH 8 without recompiling the kernel and sacrificing to the gods. I haven't tried in RH 9 yet. Overall, I think things are going extremely well. 9:17:01 AM    comment []

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