Archive for January, 2007

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

Peekvid is a website with over 20,000 movies, TV shows, cartoons, and more.
Let me tell you, this is a great service:
1. they offer free content!
2. you can watch tv or cartoon series before they are being broadcasted in Belgium (anyone interested in the next season of “Lost” or “Prison Break” ?)
3. you can download [...]

VirtualBox, open-source virtualization

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

Innotek, releases an Open Source edition of their product, VirtualBox.
VirtualBox is “a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use”. In other words, it does what VMWare is doing with their workstation and server editions.
Time to test !

Started using activeCollab .

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

activeCollab is an easy to use, web based, open source collaboration and project management tool. Set up an environment where you, your team and your clients can collaborate on active projects using a set of simple, functional tools.
This week I did a setup of activeCollab on my server. After a 20 minutes installation, [...]

Links

Sunday, January 14th, 2007

MediaCoder is a free universal audio/video batch transcoder distributed under GPL license, which puts together lots of excellent audio/video codecs and tools from the open source community into an all-in-one solution, capable of transcoding among different audio/video formats. With many extra features and a expandable architecture, MediaCoder is more than a GUI of a [...]

Jabber integration with Cisco

Friday, January 12th, 2007

Jabber announced integration of its technology with Cisco so you can transition from a Jabber real-time collaboration experience into a web conferencing session using Cisco’s technology:
January 9, 2007 – Denver, Colo. – Jabber, Inc. today announced that the Jabber Extensible Communications Platform (Jabber XCP) has been integrated with the Cisco® [...]

Music Maestro!

Monday, January 8th, 2007

Born on the 8th of April 1975, Anouk inherited her musical talent from her mother.
At the age of 19 she got in the music academy, but after two years, she quits. In 1996, she met Barry Hay, lead singer of ‘The Golden Earing’.
Impressed by her performing skills, he decides to help Anouk in [...]

Creating multiple user accounts in Linux

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007

Creating users can be a boring job. Usually you use “useradd” to create a new user. But let us assume that you need to create 1000 accounts!
Will you still use useradd from the commandline?
You can use newusers command, which update and create new users in batch.
The newusers command reads a file of user names [...]

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