Linux Expands Even Further Into The Enterprise
Linux adoption extends deeper into the corporate enterprise as companies start picking up on the latest versions of Linux for ordinary users.
Date:2007-12-19
Rackspace: Two hosting offers to start your New Year
We take on the day-to-day burdens that bog down your IT department, so it can get back to focusing on the important things. That means that you'll never have to implement, update, troubleshoot, patch, monitor, administer, backup data or worry again. That's what managed hosting means at Rackspace.
Date:2007-12-06
Wal-Mart's Little Linux PC That Could
Could what, one might wonder? Unless the Wal-Mart shopping public that bought out the first run of 10,000 Everex, Ubuntu-powered, $199 PCs returns them in droves, maybe it's time for Microsoft to become concerned.
Date:2007-11-14
Rackspace: Two reasons you should host with us before 2008
We take on the day-to-day burdens that bog down your IT department, so it can get back to focusing on the important things. That means that you'll never have to implement, update, troubleshoot, patch, monitor, administer, backup data or worry again. That's what managed hosting means at Rackspace.
Date:2007-11-06
Microsoft And Turbolinux Try To Simplify IT
It appears that Microsoft and Turbolinux are getting closer than ever as the two parties announced a partnership yesterday to smooth out the "ease of use" between Windows and Turbolinux machines.
Date:2007-10-24
Rackspace: Discover the value of Fanatical Support
Starting with Fanatical Support™, Rackspace is about one thing and one thing only—supporting you. It goes way beyond just your box or configuration. What's outside the box? Our people, Zero-Downtime Network™, data centers and technical expertise backed by our guarantees which all exist to make your IT life easier. It's what makes us the hosting experts and everyone else just hosting providers.
Date:2007-10-02
Looking Back At RedHat 6.2
Today I meandered down state to answer a distress call on a Linux box exhibiting a number of baffling symptoms (well, they baffled me on the phone at least).
Date:2007-09-19
Delivering the right tools for your website
Sure, we can watch to make sure that your site can be found. But we can go even further. We can actually go into the content of your site every 10 minutes to make sure your site isn't acting up and that your visitors can actually do what you want them to do. You'll know if content isn't loading, links aren't working or other little glitches are happening on your critical pages. And with checks happening every 10 minutes you'll know sooner rather than way too late.
Date:2007-09-14
Does The FSF Have Teeth Vs. Microsoft?
Reading Matt's blog today, I found this press release (via Groklaw) from the FSF. The title says it all: "Microsoft cannot declare itself exempt from the requirements of GPLv3?
Date:2007-08-29
Responses To "Why Microsoft Should Buy Red Hat"
Earlier this week I wrote a "what if" post suggesting that Microsoft buy Red Hat. The comments here and on Open Sources at InfoWorld were lively to say the least.
Date:2007-08-08
How Fanatical Support(TM) can work for your business
No more worrying about web hosting uptime. No more spending your time, energy and resources trying to stay on top of things like
patching, updating, monitoring, backing up data and the like. And no more wondering if there's a better way to go about it all.
Date: 2007-08-06
Should Microsoft Buy Red Hat?
Some background: 1. Matt asked "Why doesn't Oracle buy Red Hat?" 2. I explained why Oracle would not buy Red Hat. 3. Luis Villa replied to Matt's question: "Because Red Hat employees would leave en masse."
Date: 2007-07-25
A Hosting Environment for the Environment
There's a problem with our planet's environment. We realize that we contribute to the problem with our datacenter emissions. While Rackspace doesn't claim to have the answer, we are committed to doing our small part toward the larger picture. It's going to take industry leaders like Rackspace to step up and admit there are much more environmentally friendly ways of doing things.
Date: 2007-07-12
Can OSS Guard Against Do-overs & Stupid Decisions
BTL posted a ‘highlight' of an interesting interview that Mary Jo Foley did with Iain McDonald, director of project management for Windows Server.
Date: 2007-07-10
Counting Executable Binaries On A Linux Box
I've been looking at your script to count executable binaries in the book Wicked Cool Shell Scripts and I think that there's a problem in the script. What happens if I have a directory in my PATH more than once?
Date: 2007-06-27
Booting to a Linux Console vs. Linux Desktop
As part of getting Linux training on Linux concepts, you need to learn Linux terms to understand the concepts. These articles, with names ending in "Linux Concepts & Terms", have been created to help you learn how to "speak geek" and understand Linux terms - and this will help you learn how to use Linux!
Date: 2007-06-13
Keep your servers & your business up and running
It's our business to keep your servers and your business up and running. That's what Fanatical Support is all about — everyone at Rackspace working for you 24x7x365. Call it one more layer of redundancy, or call it the best support you'll ever have. Either way, it gives you greater peace of mind day in and day out.
Date: 2007-06-05
Linux Console, Terminal, Virtual Terminal & Linux Terminal Windows
As part of your Linux training, you need to understand Linux terms to be able to understand Linux concepts. And learning Linux concepts helps you to learn how to use Linux!
Date: 2007-05-31
The Linux Programmer's Toolbox
Wow. Regular readers here know I don't say "wow" lightly. I may like a book, I may even think it's useful or even something you really should have, but very few really make my jaw drop.
Date: 2007-05-15
Monitoring Your Server's Availability and Your Visitors' Website Experience
We've bundled together Rackspace Platinum Monitoring and Urchin Web Analytics Software so you can now have two easy and thorough ways to watch over the performance of your Rackspace web environment. And they're from two completely different perspectives — monitoring your server's availability and reporting on your visitors' website experience.
Date: 2007-05-14
Dell & Ubuntu: All About The Drivers
So Dell has given some more details on its plan to fulfill one of the top 10 wishes of the people who submitted ideas to its Digg-style IdeaStorm site: It's going to start shipping Dells that have the Ubuntu flavour of Linux preloaded on them.
Date: 2007-05-02
Open Source: It's The Service, Silly
While the stock market has minted a few tech people as billionaires, including the richest geek on the planet, the most successful in the open source movement probably won't touch the same level of wealth.
Date: 2007-04-25
Linux Books for New Linux Users
There are lots of "How to Use Linux" books on the market and some may help you learn the Linux OS (operating system), but lots of these Linux books just don't work for someone new to Linux.
Date: 2007-04-18
Configuring NTP On Your Linux Server
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) defines a set of algorithms for the dissemination of time across the Internet.
The NTP protocol can be used to synchronise the system time on your Linux Server with a highly accurate Internet time reference.
Date: 2007-04-04
Linux Server Based Computing & Terminal Server Options
Being an IT consultant I get to visit lots of companies and can't help but notice any trends that are happening. One of these trends is more and more Linux servers (and occasionally workstations) appearing in companies of all sizes.
Date: 2007-03-28
Dell Confirms Linux Offerings
Several weeks ago, rumors began swirling about Dell's potential plan to begin offering its customers a choice between Windows or Linux operating system for PCs and notebooks.
Date: 2007-03-14
Rackspace Managed Hosting - March Reduced Price
Starting with Fanatical Support™, Rackspace is about one thing and one thing only—supporting you. It goes way beyond just your box or configuration. What's outside the box, our people, technical expertise, Zero-Downtime Network™, data centers and guarantees all exist to make your IT life easier. It's what makes us the hosting experts and everyone else just hosting providers.
Date: 2007-03-13
Linux Tops Dell Idea Storm
Linux, Open Office, and no extra software are the top three customer proposed ideas at Dell Idea Storm. What is interesting is that besides the general whining about Indian call centers, the biggest customer idea is to support Dell and Linux in ways that are more intuitive to the user.
Date: 2007-02-21
Novell Is Not Losing Linux
The Free Software Foundation is displeased over the SuSE Linux distribution deal Novell inked with Microsoft, but supposed threats to pull Novell's "Linux license" ring hollow.
Date: 2007-02-07
The Linux Hosting Expert
Since our founding, Rackspace has supported and promoted the Open Source community working closely with Red Hat to develop and support unparalleled Linux hosting solutions. With more than 80 Red Hat Certified Engineers (RHCEs), we're home to more in-house Linux expertise than any other provider in the world. Our expertise has been recognized by the industry — Rackspace is the first Red Hat Certified provider and also the first MySQL Certified provider.
Date: 2007-02-06
Free Software - Should It Be Free?
By now, you've probably heard about or read Mark Shuttleworth's view on keeping free software free. Matt Asay has a take on Mark's post here.
Date: 2007-01-24
Giving In To Temptation
This analysis was conceived when the coauthors discovered we'd each been independently seriously tempted to buy a Mac Mini, and realized what that temptation implied.
Date: 2007-01-11
Don't just think, know your site is secure
Thinking your web environment is secure and knowing it's secure are two entirely different things. With your data, your site's
uptime and your business' reputation all hanging in the balance, thinking your security is adequate just isn't good enough.
You have to know, without a doubt, that from every angle everything is secure.
Date: 2007-01-10
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