Just last week, I was talking to an owner of small company here in the city. This owner previously commissioned me to redesign their company website, and this time he talked to me about some of the issues they were experiencing with their computers and network within the office. He asked me if I could suggest any technical options he could implement in his office so every transaction could run as smooth as possible. He was actually concerned about computer viruses, sudden corruption of very important computer files, leakage of sensitive company files, etc. So I thought about suggesting to him to migrate to Linux Operating System.
After I sort of talked him out with the advantages of running a Linux system in his office, the final question I heard him asked sounded like a kid wanting to know if he can walk on water. It was a very pessimistic question of whether they would be able to learn to use it. I was surprised I can’t think of any effective answer to support his question for about 3 seconds or so. So, to everyone out there, the following are some of the things that I think would be best to keep in mind if you are used to Windows Operating System but would like to try GNU/Linux: [Continue reading...]
If you are used to Windows or a Mac, and you’re trying to use Linux for the first time, you’ll probably wonder why most Linux distributions doesn’t come out-of-the-box with a TTS (text-to-speech) synthesizer program by default. Well, I’m not really interested in finding out the reason why, but I do know there are quite a few TTS programs available out there that you can download and install on your favorite Linux distro. These TTS programs all have their own flavor so to speak. Among these TTS programs that you might want to try and experiment with are 
With the large number of handheld gadgets and other mobile devices spreading all over the place, and the rapid growth of the Internet specially the World Wide Web, there’s no question most web designers today now also consider including these tiny electronics to their list of viewing tools for their webpages. The first time I tried designing a webpage that could also be decently viewable for mobile phones I was overwhelmed because I never thought getting the right result I wanted could be quite tricky to achieve. To those who are just starting to design websites, there are several number of what we call media types in CSS that you can use for your stylesheet layout and the two most common are “screen” (also your main stylesheet) and “print” (for printable layouts). Example for screen and print media types can be implemented as follows: 
No it’s neither brandy nor rum, it’s just plain pure wine – a type of Windows emulator that enables you to install your favorite Windows application in a Linux/UNIX-like operating system. It’s a computer software, a tool, – so basically it is safe for you, for me, and even for our kids. Some may not know this but Wine has been around for quite a while now. It was first released on July of 1993 roughly two years after Linux’s first release. By the time of this writing the latest stable version is 
Cyber terrorism is once again taking its toll and another decent website became the new victim – this time it’s InDigitalWorks.com, owned by a guy named Goran Zinic from Croatia. This morning I checked one of my old email account and saw this very sad news that Goran Zinic’s website, InDigitalWorks.com, has been hacked and hijacked by a guy who call himself Ahmad Rashid Mohammed that turns out to be living somewhere in Dubai – I doubt it.
Speed, in every sense of the word, is I believe the main reason why we all use computers nowadays; whether in recreation, editing family photos from the previous summer vacation, or even when browsing your favorite website on the Internet – we want speed, and lots of it. That’s one fact I think that everyone would agree.
