Jason Brooks

OpenBSD boxes typically arent configured to run with graphical interfaces. However, I find that a GUI makes certain tasks much easier. For instance, browsing through the software packages installed on a system and those packages available for installation goes a lot more quickly when you can scroll and click through the job. OpenBSD benefits from […]

I recently came across a handy, free note-taking application for Linux called Tomboy, which works like a wiki, an application that lets users create a body of linked pages in an open-ended, distributed fashion. Wikis are typically Web-based, making them a good fit for distributed authoring (Wikipedia is an impressive example of what a widely […]

The Tungsten T5, the latest device in PalmOne Inc.s line of business-targeted handheld computers, shares the strengths of the vendors previous Tungsten products—such as an excellent high-resolution display—and adds generous new internal file storage capacity as well as software tools for more effectively managing this storage. Click here to read the full review of Tungsten […]

E-mail is one of the Internets most mature applications, yet todays climate of tighter corporate regulatory controls and increased attacks from malicious and unsolicited mail sources is forcing administrators to look more closely at the way theyre implementing this vital resource. Your companys strategy for effectively managing e-mail must solicit participation from individual users, whose […]

It seems impossible, but right now Im experiencing feelings of gratitude toward the legions of spammers and mailer bots that ensure that our in-boxes are never lonely. The necessity of managing all the unwanted mail they send has become mother to an invention thats going to make it much easier for me to manage the […]

LDAP is one of the most heavily relied-upon standards in enterprise software, but, although the protocol provides for a measure of back-end consistency, the interfaces of products into which LDAP is built vary considerably. Click here to read the full review of LDAP Administrator 3.1. 2 LDAP is one of the most heavily relied-upon standards […]

eWEEK labs tested Xamlon Inc.s Xamlon Professional 1.0 and Infragistics Inc.s NetAdvantage 2004 Volume 3, which are designed to make it easier for companies to create graphical interfaces for their projects, thereby freeing developers to focus on the business logic portion of their applications. Although these products, which plug into Microsoft Corp.s Visual Studio .Net […]

While members of the open-source community are generally supportive of software diversity, flame skirmishes sometimes erupt between devotees of competing projects. When users of the rival GNOME and KDE desktop environments square off on the message boards, the debate tends to center on configurability: What constitutes too much (or too little) choice, and how should […]

There’s no question that tight, centralized management of desktop systems can deliver companies shortened deployment time, simpler system patching and more predictable performance. Featurewise, thin clients fit the centralized management bill by locating the operating system and all user data on a shared server, but this model isn’t always feasible. For instance, thin clients rely […]

The Mozilla organization has gotten a lot of attention for its excellent Firefox Web browser, but the groups Thunderbird mail client has grown into an application worthy of just as much praise. During the past few months, I have used Thunderbird for all my e-mail requirements on Windows and Linux systems. I have been impressed […]