High-end project management tools and low-end to-do utilities are a dime a dozen these days. But what if you need something less complicated than a full-blown project management application, but more flexible than a simple to-do list? In that case, give jWorkSheet (JWS) a try. This tiny Java-based tool offers basic project and task management features sprinkled with worksheet-like capabilities. The result is a simple yet functional tool for keeping track of your projects and tasks and the time you spend on them. It’s especially useful if you bill per hour and a need a simple utility to track your time.
Monthly Archives: December 2007
Installing MyDNS And The MyDNSConfig Control Panel On CentOS 5.1
In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure MyDNS
and MyDNSConfig on CentOS 5.1. MyDNS is a DNS server that uses a MySQL
database as backend instead of configuration files like, for example,
Bind or djbdns. The advantage is that MyDNS simply reads the records
from the database, and it does not have to be restarted/reloaded when
DNS records change or zones are created/edited/deleted. A secondary
nameserver can be easily set up by installing a second instance of
MyDNS that accesses the same database or, to be more redundant, uses
the MySQL master / slave replication features to replicate the data to
the secondary nameserver.
Whether you refer to online maps occasionally or on a daily basis, you can add several extensions to your Firefox browser to make Web-based mapping services even more useful.
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A very interesting howto written by Dr.Small, which might come handy to a lot of people, or perhaps some time in future.
I run into all kinds of predicaments when operating from behind a router, and one of them is, to be able to record my External (or WAN) IP, while behind it.
I am going to explain to you, how I succeeded in doing it, so you may do the same, if you are in the same ditch, and are like me, and run a ssh server or so. When you leave the computer, and you haven’t checked your WAN IP for days, (if you have a dynamic IP), it tends to change.
So first off, here is a list of things you will need for this project:
- Expect. A simple little application. I’ll explain how to get it, in a second.
- A external or secondary website, which you have FTP access to.
So, let’s start off and get the necessary things we need, while we are at it.
Trolltech developer showing off the neat effects you can get with KDE4 on a low end system
Related: Trolltech and KDE collaborate on Phonon
A streaming version of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s iPlayer online TV on-demand service has been launched for the Windows, Mac and Linux platforms.
BBC iPlayer (formerly known as iMP, Integrated Media Player, Interactive Media Player, and MyBBCPlayer) is a website and computer program being developed by the BBC to extend its existing RealPlayer-based “Radio Player” and other streamed video clip content.
But …. it is not available to all internet users. Most of the content in UK only, well at least for now.
Last month AMD introduced the ATI Radeon HD 3800 series as “enthusiast gaming performance for the masses” through the Radeon HD 3850 and Radeon HD 3870, which are both sub-$250 graphics cards. While rudimentary, the Catalyst 7.11 Linux driver (also released last month), supports these two RV670 GPUs with better support coming through the Catalyst 7.12 Linux driver this month. To see how well these two PCI Express 2.0 graphics cards are able to perform under Linux, ASUS had sent out their EAH3850 TOP and EAH3870 TOP. We have tested both of these graphics cards using Ubuntu 7.10 and have compared the results to other products using the fglrx driver, including the ATI Radeon HD 2900XT 512MB. These are the world’s first Linux benchmarks of these new mainstream ATI graphics processors.
The ATI Radeon HD 3850 and 3870 are designed to be affordable GPUs and direct competition for NVIDIA’s recently released GeForce 8800GT, which we should be showcasing here under Linux shortly. These two ATI graphics cards use the RV670 core and are built using a 55nm TSMC process, which results in a smaller die size and a more energy efficient graphics processor. However, as this is an “RV” GPU, it does have a reduction in memory bandwidth and the internal ring bus compared to the flagship Radeon HD 2900XT.
Asus Radeon HD3870:
- 851MHz Core Clock (RV670 reference: 775MHz)
- 2286MHz Memory Clock (RV670 reference: 2250MHz)
- 512MB 256-bit GDDR4 Memory
Asus Radeon HD 3850:
- 730MHz Core Clock (RV670 reference: 668MHz)
- 1900MHz Memory Clock (RV670 reference: 1650MHz)
- 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 Memory
Common Specs:
- DirectX 10.1
- OpenGL 2.0
- Dual Dual-Link DVI
- HDCP Supported
- PCI Express 2.0
Related: Using HDMI With ATI Radeon HD Linux Drivers
Creating Encrypted FTP Backups With duplicity And ftplicity On Debian Etch
When you rent a dedicated server nowadays, almost all providers give
you FTP backup space for your server on one of the provider’s backup
systems. This tutorial shows how you can use duplicity and ftplicity
to create encrypted (so that nobody with access to the backup server
can read sensitive data in your backups) backups on the provider’s
remote backup server over FTP. ftplicity is a duplicity wrapper script
(provided by the German computer magazine c’t) that allows us to use duplicity without interaction (i.e., you do not have to type in any passwords).
Lisa Hoover talks about highlights from the past week — and a little about next week’s stories, too, including a "sneak peek" at the Asus EeePC.
Arena Solutions produces and sells a hosted, subscription-based product lifecycle management (PLM) tool for manufacturing companies. Arena founder and CTO Eric Larkin uses open source tools to develop, secure, and maintain the software-as-a-service product. He believes that open source is the path to success for subscription software. "It’s a more cost-effective way to build and scale a SAAS business," he says.