The Linux community.

Why you should contribute Linux has evolved, and continues to evolve, under the open-source philosophy of the free sharing of ideas. If not for this massive, shared, open community environment, Linux — and much of the open-source software that runs the Internet — wouldn’t be here. It’s a testament to this community and its philosophy … Read more

How I fixed the Java out of memory issue on an Amazon AWS instance.

I was trying to get openmeetings working on an Amazon AWS instance today and I kept getting Java out of memory errors. I fixed this with this simple solution I found: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18078859/java-run-out-of-memory-issue. This fixed my problem and allowed the java application to start with a limited amount of memory. Try this out if you have … Read more

The Simpsons S9E14 “Das Bus”. A commentary on corporate America and Microsoft.

This is Bill Gates in the Simpsons. This episode features the billionaire software mogul as the evil mastermind that shuts down Homer Simpsons`s Internet company. This shows the reality of life in the corporate world, where you may not want to buy someone out, but you can shut them down in other ways. Microsoft are … Read more

Hotmail service hacked or nonexistent for many users?

http://contacthelp.com/comment_list.php?listing=287 The Hotmail service has gone through a rough patch at the moment, the service is now unavailable and will be for some time for many users. This is not a good thing if you had Ebay and other services linked to this account and you can not log in at all, there are many … Read more