Ok, so Jonathan Temple, the guy who wrote this article, is 17 but he started using Linux when he was 11. Arguably he might have used the mentioned tools when he was 11, though.
Anyway, the article mentions some cool tools that I didn’t know about (e.g. root-tail) and some that I did but didn’t know […]

Above I’m refering to the now (in)famous clip of Steve Ballmer standing on stage screaming “Developers! Developers”. However, Windows XP still doesn’t come with grep (imagine a unix system not coming with grep!?!?!). Developer tools don’t need to be huge IDEs, they can small and useful command line apps.
If, like me, you get stuck doing […]

I’m doing a lot of work in java right now. Some of it I’ve done before (a long time ago) and am remembering (e.g. Java Desktop Development) and some is brand new (J2EE Development).
As Mike pointed out to me there is a lot more to java than being platform independant. Java provides a huge API […]

I do most of my DB work in PostgreSQL. I like it. It’s object oriented, has loads of functionality, high level of SQL compliance, is Open Source, etc. Unfortunately I have to work in Oracle for my JDBC course. I didn’t think that would be a big problem, I kind of thought that Pgsql is […]

My only real problem with Ubuntu has been caused by using the Canadian repositories instead of the general (US?) ones.
I don’t know how I feel about using packages instead fo doing stuff from source. I guess it’s nice to be warned about updates and stuff but it just seems so weird. Like cheating or something. […]

I got a laptop! w()()T!!!
specs:

P4-M (2.00 Ghz)
512 MB Ram
40 GB HDD
~7 pounds

I decided to go with Ubuntu (5.10 Breazy Badger) and … WOW. *EVERYTHING* works:

Battery Status is fully displayed.
Wireless works (had to be configured for North American wireless networks).

The only thing approaching a problem is that glx gears doesn’t display the frame rate so I […]