KnowledgeTree & SAS - Debunking myth from reality
I've received the latest newsletter from KnowledgeTree a couple of days ago. It goes along these lines: How do I keep my business documents protected? Your business documents must always be secure....
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KVM, VMBuilder & Puppet - (Really) Automated deployment
I've spent some time automating the deployment of virtual machines using vmbuilder and puppet. There are two reasons behind this:I give every IT person in the company (about 8-10 of us) a VM for...
View ArticleEven Accenture say so
In a press release that surprised me (I'm more used to thinking of them as a .net developing, MS Shiny Partner, if ain't got a 6-figure pricetag it ain't worth nothing sort of a consultancy), Accenture...
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Archaeological Archives, Online
Open data in Archaeology is growing in popularity, so I thought I'd write a quick post about it here. We've recently released our latest Open Source GIS application and we're continuing to use as much...
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OA Digital releases gvSIG OADE
Hello everyone, posting this on behalf of my colleague Ben as he was being a bit shy Please forgive him the "Press release" style - this is the result of months (if not years) of work so we're all...
View ArticleInteracting with Ubuntu One - what it could be (There should be an app for...
Nowadays we tend to have more and more devices that allow us to connect to the internet. Forget about the family desktop, now people have netbooks, smartphones, laptops - so very often, more than just...
View ArticleOpenStreetMap + Launchpad? Not yet
At the end of last year I tried to encourage the use of OpenStreetMap within Launchpad rather than the existing Google Maps; there was a bug and a blueprint for people to comment on and I hoped that we...
View ArticleMoney for nothing
So, there I am, helping my much loved and elderly aunt with her computer. The computer's a tad old, running, more accurately crawling, mostly unpatched Windows XP Home and, like many of its age, the...
View ArticleOA and the GSoC
An OA member of staff is offering to mentor a GSoC student to add support for SQLite3/SpatiaLite to the gvSIG desktop GIS software as part of our and gvSIG's involvement with the Open Source Geospatial...
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Divided we stand, united we fall
This is a thought that has been troubling me for some time, but the upcoming release of 10.04, the next long term support (LTS) version of Kubuntu (and the Kubuntu Gnome Edition ) makes this post...
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KnowledgeTree calls out to its community
Short introduction: KnowledgeTree (KT) is a document management system written in PHP, targetting small to medium businesses. I would name Alfresco as its closest competitor. At Oxford Archaeology we...
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Troubles with KVM... Anyone got a version working?
Dear Planet Ubuntu, I've been having issues with KVM for several months now (running Ubuntu Hardy LTS). I was using kvm62, had many issues with it (non fontional SMP, issues with network drivers, ...),...
View ArticleBlueprint plug: Within Launchpad use OpenStreetMap instead of Google
The new year is almost upon us, so I thought I'd plug one of my wishes for 2010, the use of OpenStreetMap within Launchpad rather than Google Maps. There's a blueprint here. This move would, I believe,...
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Returning your Palm Pre to health with a Koala
So much has changed; Palm devices now use and support Linux, are cute and very, very neat (oh, and for iPhone users: among other things, the Pre can run more than one application at at time ). But...
View ArticleKoala's LTS
I know that Karmic isn't a LTS release, and that this has very little, if not nothing at all, to do with Ubuntu usage within a modern corporation, but I couldn't help think of the OS I'm using when I...
View ArticleMaking progress part 2: small successes all add up
So, a quick-ish follow up so my previous post doesn't come across as too negative, and to show that progress in this area can be made with just a little effort.We are having significant success as a...
View ArticleMaking progress part 1: A little advice or a question?
I guess the question needs to be first: do you (the community and individual users) want Ubuntu to be a real alternative for typical home users? You know, not the equivalent of a kit car relative to...
View ArticleKVM84 in the starting blocks
Remember my post from March? Where, we're nearly there. Dustin announced a few days ago that he was expecting to push kvm84 in -updates next week. I've been beta-testing and chasing bugs on this for...
View ArticleWorld's most detailed fail
Picked up by the BBC here:Global Digital Elevation Map covers 99% of the Earth's surface, and will be free to download and use..."This is the most complete, consistent global digital elevation data yet...
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The 100 papercuts and the fleshwound
The 100 papercuts and the fleshwound. I actually bought support because of this bug, and they fixed it for me by telling me to disable the wacom tablets in the xorg.conf file; I also share...
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