Archive for the 'linux' Category

What a diff a tool makes

March 31, 2007

The CRM that my company uses is SugarCRM. We use the professional version as we wanted quoting, but there is an open source version available. We have also elected to have the on-site option, meaning we host it ourselves. There is an on-demand option that gets the task of running a server out of your [...]

configure, make, make install

March 22, 2007

I am not sure if any one area of using a *nix system got to me more than ./configure, make, make install. I finally understand it, and yeah, pretty damn easy. For whatever reason I had a mental block on being able to remember those commands–and even if I did what order they went in. [...]

Disappearing icons

March 9, 2007

So the hardware the sales reps use at my company had grown long in the tooth. We were using 1999 Compaqs set up as thin clients. The server held all programs, as well as acted as a file server–the thing was sluggish at best. We decided to go the route of program run locally and [...]

The Accidental SysAdmin

March 6, 2007

I’m not kidding myself. I am no Linux guru. I get by. I get by way better than anyone else at my company–no offense all. It is a small business and that often means the person who knows more about computers is the defacto techie. Well, I’m much more than that, but in all likelihood [...]