http://blog.agileware.net Experience Justin, Michael and Alex's adventures in an Agile world. Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:38:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What a lovely surprise at the end of a hard days work ;) Checked the Novell website looking for some other information and behold! The SUSE 10 announcement is there on the home page, available now for free download - SUSE 10 Enterprise Server and Desktop. Woo hoo! We should have ... http://blog.agileware.net/index.php/archives/2006/07/18/suse-enterprise-10-now-available/ If you are based in Canberra or the surrounding regions, then I would like to invite you to join the inaugural meeting of the Business Linux User Group, Canberra. BLUG is a user group dedicated to discussing and supporting Linux and free software within a business context. The meeting will be ... http://blog.agileware.net/index.php/archives/2006/07/17/youre-invited-to-the-first-business-linux-user-group-meeting-in-canberra/ Well, it definitely *feels* like Christmas in July. There is no less than 3 major software releases I've been hanging out for which are scheduled for release this month, these include: VMWare server: released yesterday. Simply amazing software. I cannot recommend this software enough. Virtualise your server management, run multiple operating ... http://blog.agileware.net/index.php/archives/2006/07/14/christmas-in-july/ Comparing OpenOffice 2 to Microsoft Office Interesting interview on searchopensource.techtarget.com with Rob Miller. I particularly like this quote: Miller: One [IT manager] I know told people: 'This is the latest office update.' He said no more than that and just put it on their computers. One day they came in, and ... http://blog.agileware.net/index.php/archives/2006/04/01/interesting-reading-for-those-looking-for-microsoft-office-alternatives/ This press release from Novell's Brainshare Conference 2006 caught my eye today. A great example of SUSE Linux and Lotus Domino in action. The Ministry’s decision-making processes, correspondence and e-mail communications run through a central Lotus-based process management and documentation application. All correspondence is scanned into the application and initiatives are ... http://blog.agileware.net/index.php/archives/2006/03/22/finlands-ministry-of-defence-relies-on-suse-linux-and-lotus-domino/ The 5.10 release of Ubuntu and Kubuntu was delivered with the 1.195 release of the Open Office package, which was the final Beta before the 2.0 release. It works fine and is much more stable than many other commercial Beta software I've trialled from "reputable" vendors. There are been a ... http://blog.agileware.net/index.php/archives/2006/03/15/how-to-upgrade-openoffice-in-ubuntu-or-kubuntu/ Andreas Pleschek, from IBM in Stuttgart, Germany, heads open source and Linux technical sales across North East Europe for IBM. Andreas was presenting at the Linux Forum 2006. At the end of the presentation, Andreas Pleschek revealed that the laptop he used for the presentation was running a pre-release of ... http://blog.agileware.net/index.php/archives/2006/03/09/ibm-will-not-be-upgrading-to-windows-vista-instead-using-linux-and-lotus-workplace/ This is our first Show'n Tell Thursday posting (what a great idea Mr. B Balaban and Mr. R Oliver!) and even though today is actually Friday, it's better to be late than never! So here goes. Since our office entirely moved to a Linux desktop environment, we ceased using the Lotus ... http://blog.agileware.net/index.php/archives/2006/02/24/show-n-tell-thursday-identifying-email-created-by-a-local-imap-client/ How do you make a web page stretch to fill the height of a browser window? A lot of sites are arranged with a header, footer, and a space for content in between. This site is a good example. These look fine when there is plenty of content on ... http://blog.agileware.net/index.php/archives/2006/02/21/make-a-page-at-least-100-of-your-browser-height/ Here's a photo of a big Red Kangaroo relaxing in the afternoon heat. He was totally oblivious to the crowd of people around him and obviously didn't have a care in the world. australiana/redkangaroochillingout From Whiteman Park in Perth, Western Australia. Photo courtesy of my brother in law. And no, the Roo is ... http://blog.agileware.net/index.php/archives/2006/02/18/australiana-great-red-kangaroo-chilling-out/