Ballmer, Suck this

Steve Ballmer please close your mouth, shut up, and go color or something… you look like a complete fool ranting and raving on stage about linux and windows.  “People who use Red Hat, at least with respect to our intellectual property, in a sense have an obligation to compensate us,” -Ballmer  Mr. Ballmer, I know you have a personal vendetta against RedHat due to the fact that they told you to go fly a kite when you offered to strike a “deal”.  However just because they aren’t going to play your little mind games doesn’t mean they have stolen anything or are infringing on any IP… in fact it makes them look even better and you look even worse.

I hope you have a coronary.

-S

OpenSuSE 10.3 released

OpenSuSE 10.3 was released this week with a plethora of updates and new features, it really looks like a killer desktop OS and goes to show just how far open source products have come.  Now anyone that knows me knows that I’m a big RedHat/Fedora fan… but it looks like I just may have to give SuSE a try based on what I’ve read about on their site and all the screen shots… I’m sure I have a extra PC laying around somewhere.

-Scott

New Polycom IP330 phones review

We finally got in some of the ‘new’ Polycom IP330 models. There are numerous things about this phone that makes it perfect for the consumer or business on a budget, it’s “only” around $110 and includes 2 line appearances, PoE, and a full duplex speaker phone. It’s one killer phone in my opinion and another testament of why I love Polycom.

Here is a pic of our latest toy

IP330

-Scott

FireFox, Java, Fedora… dear lord

So in the event that someone else has this issue and perhaps google can turn up my page regarding this I hope it can help someone in the future.

– Do *not* download the .bin, download and install the RPM from sun’s website

– Install compat-libstdc++-33 as it is required

– ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_01/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

(Note 1.6.0.1 was the available version at the time of writing this)

-Scott

LogIX may see a public release

LogIX – Our internal voice software suite which is a combination of a heavily modified version of FreePBX, Asterisk and some other open source tools.  Due to first TrixBox selling out and now FreePBX we’ve had to fork from those builds and do our own thing as we were not impressed in the direction of those two projects we developed our own.   This *may* become a public project depending on whether I can find the time to manage it.  🙂

-Scott