Last night the hard drive in my wifes computer started to make that “click, click, click” sound that can only mean one thing – imminent head failure on the drive. Since the hard drive was only an 8GB hard drive it also offered a chance…
Photo Editing on Terminal Server
Photo and image editing in a terminal server environment has always been a challenge. Most photo editing software out there will not run on a terminal server because it requires multiple instances of the software to be open, and usually requires a higher colour level…
FreeNAS for Network Storage
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…
Free SourceForge Enterprise Edition Download
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…
“Waiting for Permission” error in Goldmine
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…
Free Group Project Management – activeCollab
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…