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In today's world of shrinking budgets and shrinking incomes, charitable organizations are feeling a financial crunch from lower giving. Churches are among these organizations that are struggling to make ends meet while attempting to serve the communities around them. With budgets stagnant or shrinking does it make fiscal sense for a charity, such as a . . . → Read More: Linux: Tux Goes to Church  For those of you who are Linux cognoscente, yes, I know technically Linux is just a kernel. But these days Linux is also a marketing term that means an entire operating system with graphical user interface based on the Linux kernel and distributed under some other name. In marketing it is necessary to . . . → Read More: Linux: What Makes Linux Compelling to Use? This is the first article of at least two articles about this project. The next article will follow once we are further into this project. A possible third article may follow at the end of this project. The first day of September 2010 I received a web-form e-mail from a long-time . . . → Read More: Linux: An Interesting VPN/Remote Project (1) I will say again, for the record, I am not a fan of bloated GUI desktops like KDE and GNOME. I am a GUI minimalist and use the fluxbox window manager for my “GUI desktop”. However, I do like some of the applications that are available for both KDE and GNOME. For a . . . → Read More: Open Source: My Migration from Kontact to Evolution Here is the scenario, you are an independent IT consultant and/or an administrator of some business IT infrastructure. The systems you manage are a mix of Linux and Microsoft desktop and server systems. You do much of your system updates and other management tasks after hours using remote access over VNC or a . . . → Read More: Linux: Using Remote Wakeup (Wake on LAN) I have been touting the security of Linux on the desktop for several years now. But a question from Artremis on my article Open Source: FOSS Security Updates vs Microsoft Patch Day has me thinking about how to attempt to prove that. I know one “cannot prove a negative”, barring odd philosophical views from odd . . . → Read More: Cracking Linux on the Desktop – A Proposal It is almost that time again. The ritual of installing Microsoft patches released on the second Tuesday of each month to fix security problems with its operating systems and software. My company will be monitoring and installing these updates again for some of our local clients this week. It is an . . . → Read More: Open Source: FOSS Security Updates vs Microsoft Patch Day This press release is to announce that for the month of July 2010 ERA Computers & Consulting (ERACC) is following the idiomatic phrase, “Put your money where your mouth is!” when it comes to our Linux PC sales. What do we mean? Read on. For every PC purchased from us in July 2010 with any . . . → Read More: Linux: We Put Our Money Where Our Mouth Is We are proud to announce that here at ERA Computers & Consulting (ERACC) we have researched the parts needed to build Mini ITX, Tiny PC, systems and are offering a quote option on our sales site. Each of these Tiny PC systems is built to end-user specification. We build these with or without a hard . . . → Read More: Linux: We Now Build Mini ITX Systems with Linux Installed Will this “Linux on the cloud” thing with Google, et al take wing and soar like an Eagle or is it just another Dodo Bird, destined for the dustbin of time? For general personal use I think it is going to be a Dodo … or at least be rare, like a California Condor. . . . → Read More: Linux: “The Cloud”, Tablets, Desktop PCs and Control |
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