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I’ve heard a lot of buzz surrounding web2.0 lately, but I think I finally have seen it. EyeOS is a browser-based operating system. I haven’t played with it much, but this is very cool, and I look forward to installing it on my server at home and playing around with it. It’s still in beta (version 0.8.7 is the current release) but it seems nice already. There are a couple of demo sites up, so go check it out.

Linky Love

I’ve started a page (also available off to the side) with a list of my favorite FREE software. I got the idea from here. Leave me comments as to your favorite free software, and maybe I’ll add it to the list

1. You can now get weather from Yahoo! through an RSS feed. What makes this cool is it enables web programmers to include weather information onto their web pages with relative ease. Talk about some new plugins for blogging/CMS software.
2. Zimbra is an open-source, web based email package with a “commitment to improving enterprise messaging and collaboration.” There is an online demo that you can try the software out. Right now it’s only in beta, but it looks very promising.
3. RoundCube is a new open-source, web based email package geared towards the individual user (as far as I can tell). This is still in the alpha stages, but based on the online demo it looks very promising as well.

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted, so I’ll try and sum it up for everyone.

1. We bought a house, as I mentioned here. With home ownership comes the responsibilities of a home owner…like managing a lawn, cleaning windows, and having a pet We got us a kitty, which you can see here. His name is Orley, named in memory of New Orleans. He was born on June 15.
2. As of today the Red Sox lead the AL East by 1.5 games. It is definitely going to be another intense September.
3. Microsoft has decided to release seven — yes seven — versions of it’s next operating system named Vista. Talk about mass consumer confusion just waiting to happen. Seriously, release three version at most: Basic, Intermediate, and Professional. The MS-hater in me believes this is their way to appease anti-trust people. “See, we offer a stripped down version, but no one wants to buy it.”
4. Judah turned one. Check out the photos here.
5. I’m playing my first season of Fantasy Football. It’s kinda fun. I think I’ve got a pretty good team. My #1 QB is Carson Palmer, and he is having a monster year so far.
6. A co-worker and I are starting to develop a professional website for Christian admissions professionals. We are trying to nail down the intent and scope of the site, as well as finding a software package that will meet the intent and scope that we decide upon Right now I’m toying around with tikiwiki. I just need to find a way to make it look less “geeky”.
7. Work is keeping me ever busy. I was commenting to Aj that I don’t remember feeling this busy last year. She pointed out that last year I was still learning my job, and this year I’m doing my job. Plus I think I have more responsibility this year, including having more people to supervise, which takes up more of my time.

Ok, I think that does a fairly decent job of letting you know where I’m at. Let the next week begin.

I’m currently undertaking a labor of love. My wife would say I’m just playing around I’m building a file/print/web server for use at home. Here’s what it’s currently made of:

• AMD K6-2 350 MHz
• 64 MB RAM
• One 3 Gig HD (/boot and swap partitions)
• One 120 Gig HD (root partition)
• Gentoo Linux 2005.0 (kernel gentoo-sources 2.6.11-r11)

I’m trying to update all of the currently installed packages (the core system packages), as well as install the packages that I will need to make it a file (cifs and samba), print (cups), and web server (apache and php).

At a former job I got to work with a network admin who used Gentoo. My previous linux experiences had solely been with SuSE or Red Hat. I hadn’t ever heard of Gentoo before then, but after working with him to setup my first Gentoo box I haven’t turned back. At some point I might check out the Fedora Project, but for now I’m quite satisfied with the customizability I can have with Gentoo. Since my processor and RAM are pretty minimal I’m going to keep this installation very minimal for the time being.