I tried installing webmin on Fedora 12, but it required a root user to complete the installation. The problem is that you can’t login through KDE as root, so you login as a regular user and then when try doing something that requires a higher access, you’re prompted for a password for the admin task. [...]

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Market share of products is important to keep track of so that software developers will know the most profitable area to focus building applications. comScore conducted a survey over several months to determine the number of people using smart phones. The survey was reserved for American mobile customers over the age of 13. They were [...]

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Novell has completed a project with Microsoft to create an implementation of Silverlight for Linux systems. The product, Moonlight, will allow Linux users to view Silverlight applications, content, and video (including streaming ones) that previously only Windows and Mac users could access. I couldn’t find any references on the Moonlight web site for which version [...]

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Google recently published a tool for examining which parts of a web site that users can view based on the size of their web browser window. Even though many users have wide screen and high resolution monitors, their browsers are running at reduced sizes and not taking advantage of the extra space available. So, parts [...]

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When exporting a PostgreSQL database to another database server, such as MySQL or MS SQL Server, the date field will appear as a number if it is saved as an Excel sheet. After spending some time trying to determine what the number means, I found that it seems to represent the number of days from [...]

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