Jack Wallen

I decided it was time. The Linux mascot will be tattooed onto my forearm. I was recommended by the leader of Derby City Roller Girls whom I work with at Hair Strobel. When someone is covered in tattoos, you tend to trust their recommendation. The artist, Caroline Moody.

PC Mods are the stuff of dreams for many computer fanboys. We’ve seen all types – from characters to spaceships – to fishtanks. But Mr. Torquil Harkness had a trick up his sleeve. Take a PC with a mini ITX board and turn it in to a steam-punk-esque laptop PC. The results are very special.

Recently in my open source blog, I wrote about the newest Enlightenment window manager (E17) being ready for prime time. Even though the developers state that it’s not “really” ready for production-level machines, I disagree. I received a lot of requests for a gallery of screen shots for E17. Your wish is my command.

Working (or living) within a Linux-based network is become more and more commonplace. And with the popularity of Mac OS X rising, Apple-based computers have to play well inside a Linux network. With the help of Samba this is not only possible, it’s easy to configure and establish. Jack Wallen takes a look at how a Mac OS X computer connects to a Samba share.

I was playing around the other day and came across a Firefox extension that gave me a bit of a chuckle. I found it in a article called,”Firefox extensions you DON’T want.” At first I thought, “I should report this in my blog (for whatever reason; I have no idea.) Then I thought, “No it’s …

E-mail clients are often loaded down with too many features; sometimes a
simple e-mail client is all you need. Jack Wallen compares three Linux e-mail-only
clients.

Over the weekend I read about the New Zealand Open Source Society barking about patent threats within the OOXML standard. They complained that the 6000-page documentation was “peppered” with potential patent liabilities. First of all, I have to begin by asking this question: How can Microsoft, a company known for its inherent ability to break …

Linux can be intimidating for a Windows administrator because a lot of configuration for network services must be done from the command line. Jack Wallen shows how to configure a DNS server using GUI tools in Linux.

Linux is increasingly becoming a popular alternative to Microsoft Windows for network administrators wanting to provide services for their organization. Learning a new OS like Linux can present some challenges to a long time Windows administrator however. This is the beginning of a series of articles aimed at the IT administrator new to Linux wanting to set up various servers. This first article will describe the steps to setting up an Apache server as a Web server for your organization.

I’ve run the bases with Linux email clients. From Pine to Balsa to Arrow to Evolution to Kmail to Thunderbird the list leads like a science text book. But I’ll give you one guess as to which client I always seem to return to. Did you guess Pine? You guessed correctly. Email is one of …

Linux word processors are chipping away at Microsoft Word’s ownership of the usability label. Check out this Daily Drill Down to see how StarOffice 6.0 matches up to the current word processing leader.

Polling Place examines the results of TechProGuild’s Quick Poll: If the majority of TechProGuild members could master one aspect of Linux, it would be security.