I was thinking in the shower the other day (don't ask me why there of all places) that Dell may very well pick Ubuntu to run on their desktop and laptop computers. In case you missed it Dell announced that they would be looking into offering Linux as a choice on their desktop and laptop lines. Ubuntu makes sense for a number of reasons.  read more »

Hopefully, you have all seen our segment in Episode 1 about ZFS. It was mentioned that ZFS was being ported to Linux and BSD. Well the BSD port is the first to become official. You can read the announcement here.  read more »

Well the new workstation has been up and running now for a few days and everything is working great. There was some delay while I figured out a memory configuration problem in the BIOS settings of the motherboard, but the system has been up and running for a few days now without even a hint of a problem (To see a list of the parts I used click here).  read more »

The president and CEO of the company I work for definitely has "The Schwartz" (if you don't understand this joke go watch the movie "Spaceballs").  read more »

OK. This sucks. After the two day power outage it appears that my workstation is fried. Or at least the motherboard is. So, I am off to NewEgg to get some parts to build a new one :) This time I think I will splurg a little and build a kick ass system. Here is what it appears that I can afford. AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 Windsor 2.8GHz Socket AM2 Dual Core Processor Model ADAFX62IAA6CS - OEM  read more »

Sorry everyone! The power just came back online literally 10 minutes ago. There were large scale power outages in our area due to an ice storm that passed though on Tuesday. Over 120,000 customers in our area were affected including our server.  read more »

Here is the news you have been waiting for. We decided to try our hand at audio podcasting with a brand new podcast called Open News. It is intended to be a weekly open source news podcast delivering all the top open source headlines from the previous week.  read more »

Keep watching the site for some exciting news in the next few days. I am not prepared to say what it is just yet, but I think you will like it.

For all those comic book fans out there you might be interested in this. Jeff Baker and Alex Graham have come up with a quiz that will tell you which super hero you are most like.  read more »

That's right. We figure if George Lucas can do it so can we. Some of the footage is kind of old, but it was still good so we used it anyway. There is an interview with the developers of the ZFS filesystem and another cinelerra tutorial. If you are just interested in the ZFS stuff, the audio version is probably OK. Otherwise enjoy the video versions.