Try saying that 16 times fast. A new group of analysts is trying to assess how much, and what, open source software is installed. To participate in the census, go to OSSCensus.org and download their free software package, called OSS Discovery. Sounds like a submarine. It’s written, for whatever reason, in JRuby, a Java implementation [...]

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At long last Microsoft has released the third Windows XP service pack to manufacturing and the update will be available to the public on April 29. The rather quiet announcement came Monday after repeated delays caused Microsoft to push back the release of XP SP3. Unlike Windows XP SP2, which was for all intents and [...]

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Six Apart, makers of Movable Type, Typepad and other popular blogging services, have launched a new Facebook application designed to broadcast your posts to just about any external source you’d like. Blog It allows you to compose and post updates within the Facebook interface and have them simultaneously appear on any one of the ten [...]

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Microsoft has removed HyperTerminal from Windows Vista, if you need to connect to a Cisco router through a local COM port, you can get HyperTerminal from Hilgraeve, the company that Microsoft licensed the application through. You could also use the old XP Hyper terminal. Just extract two files hypertrm.dll and hypertrm.exe. You can put them [...]

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The package repositories for Debian and Ubuntu contain myriad wonders. There are software packages you’ve never heard of, that you can install with a single command, and that will revolutionize your entire life. What the system lacks is discoverability, though. How is one to find the neat stuff that’s out there? First there was the [...]

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