Archive for the 'Open Source' Category
I was a hard core Netscape user before the days of FireFox and before that I was all about IE4 . (Sorry for the re-run but Kayla didn’t let us sleep this weekend!) So I have realized change is good and you live and you learn. So when I heard about Flock, I decided to [...]
For those of you out there still living in the dark ages, and still using Telnet on Windows because you haven’t found a more viable alternative (You know who you are) We have some good news for you!
Maybe you haven’t decided to switch to a more secure solution because you use Windows Servers and Windows [...]
Hey everyone, it’s Scott from AndroidGuys here. Thanks to Karl and the other Admins here, I’m back with another article!
Yesterday, we put an article up on AndroidGuys where we talked about Google’s foray into the television world. I’d like to expound upon that piece and explain how open source could radically change the [...]
Hey Boys and Girls,
Shhh, this one is a little secret for all you hardcore aTa fans…
We here at www.asktheadmin.com have an inside scoop that is sure to be the talk of the (virtual) town about Google and their new Gphone.
We all know it’s reality that Google is, in fact, working on their own phone. It’s [...]
Good afternoon! My name is Scott Webster and I am one of the administrators over at AndroidGuys.com. I’d like to thank Karl for letting me fill in today as a guest blogger.
I’m here to talk briefly about the current state of Smartphones as well as what we might come to expect from Android and [...]
I was a hard core Netscape user before the days of FireFox and before that I was all about IE4 . So I have realized change is good and you live and you learn. So when I heard about Flock, I decided to give it a go. For you Face-bookers. Flickr’ers and Bloggers you can [...]
IBM/Lotus has fired a shot across the bow of MS at their flagship Office.
I give you Lotus Symphony!
Totally free and easy to download @ 136MB for the file.
Symphony is based on OpenOffice.org and the Eclipse framework and is meant not only to give consumers and businesses an alternative to Microsoft Office, but also to promote [...]
So who’s ready for Zimbra to go mainstream? It might just become reality. Looks like Yahoo is scooping them up for a measly $350 million.
We have covered Zimbra here and here, here and here. The first article is a link to their free test drive where you get the feel for their product. A lot [...]
For those of you that have heard of MythTv you know it is a free open source DVR software package. We love Free over @ AtA so we bring you this release for your perusal. You can not only achieve TiVo like DVR functionality it gives you so much more like an on screen [...]
Time for some technical blogging.
Today’s topic….Linux.
Some of you may have heard of Linux. Here’s what it is in a nutshell….An operating system for a computer, not unlike Windows of Mac. But there is a difference…it can be free!
There are a lot of fun things with Linux and a lot of distributions that are [...]
For those of you out there still living in the dark ages, and are still using Telnet because you haven’t found a viable alternative (You know who you are). Maybe you haven’t decided to switch to a more secure solution because you use Windows Servers and Windows hasn’t adopted using SSH. Maybe you think SSH [...]


