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Entries from October 2006

FreeNAS for Network Storage

October 14th, 2006 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

While we were looking for a network storage solution for our organization we found quite a few open-source and proprietary options available. One of the more interesting open-source solutions was FreeNAS. FreeNAS is very well featured, quite well developed and completely free.
Below is a partial feature list for FreeNAS:

Built upon FreeBSD 6
Configured and managed through [...]

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Tags: Storage



GPS Killer

October 6th, 2006 by dcouper · 1 Comment

I am always on the lookout for applications that are actually useful for mobile phones. There are a lot of mobile apps out there but few that are actually something that the average person would use. Now a free mapping tool – now that is a winner!!
Last night I downloaded google maps (which is now [...]

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Tags: Applications · Mobile

Free SourceForge Enterprise Edition Download

October 6th, 2006 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

We have been looking around at different options to help us collaboratively develop some of our software projects. We have been working on a few projects including a Content Management System (CMS) and a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution for our organization. I have actually been really curious about solutions to help us to do [...]

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Tags: Applications



“Waiting for Permission” error in Goldmine

October 4th, 2006 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

I just received a bit of a panic phone call from our database administrator as Goldmine would no longer open. While he was performing the Goldmine database maintenance his workstation died (something else to fix later I guess). When he tried to log in again to Goldmine he came up with this error:

Goldmine Error: [...]

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Tags: Applications

Free Group Project Management – activeCollab

October 3rd, 2006 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

activeCollab is a free group project management program that is very similar to 37Signals project management tool called Basecamp.
I’ve checked out their web-site and it looks like a pretty decent tool. activeCollab is a solution that is designed to be hosted on a local or hosted LAMPP server. This should be a very attractive solution [...]

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Tags: Applications

Free Basic Graphics Viewer – Irfanview

October 2nd, 2006 by chevvy · No Comments

For a very basic, but quick to download and also free (to non-commercial users) I use Irfanview.
Like I say quite basic but can be used in Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003. Very quick to download so if you need a viewer when away from home this is a good one to download.
Allows resizing [...]

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Tags: Applications