I’ve moved www.brad-x.com into colocation. Until now the server had been operating on various types of local business class connectivity, providing limited bandwidth capacity. This quickly proved inadequate and went unresolved for a long time, so I’m glad to say the server is finally where it belongs, on 100mbps fiber.

Hosted users are being moved one at a time, so your virtual host may still seem slow for a while. Not to worry - once these are all moved, they’ll be faster than ever.

This will provide some good opportunities for the community of users surrounding this server, and I hope to see some good growth come from it. Thanks go to everyone who’s supported brad-x.com in the past, present, and future. May there be plenty more to come.

The Slashdot comments on Paid Support Not Critical For Linux Adoption illustrates a very common problem with the Linux community. Many Linux users equate their personal computer use with that of large enterprises, or in other words they give advice based on their own very limited experience and not on facts.
The two comments below were [...]

It is impossible to have a conversation about Linux without someone brining up Ubuntu Linux. Whenever I mention that I dislike Ubuntu people either giving me the introduction to Linux speech or simply look at me funny. The matter usually comes up unexpectedly and I do not have adequate time to get my thoughts together [...]

iChm is a chm reader for Mac OS X, before iChm the two most popular clients lacked some of the major features and are absolutely hideous. iChm is Cocoa based, has an excellent tabs feature, is able to search through documents, and it has tons of other useful quirks.

After ages of preferring Safari I think I’ve just convinced myself to switch to Firefox 3. I’ve added a few extensions to make it work pretty nicely the way I like, and fill in some features it’s missing (and some that Safari itself doesn’t have):

FoxMarks, so I can sync my bookmarks on all machines where [...]

I’ve noticed a trend, particularly among Mozilla Firefox users who have the NoScript extension installed, to block Google Analytics from running.

This isn’t Google spyware…

Vitaliy Gladkevitch posted a photo:

Vitaliy Gladkevitch posted a photo:

For a long time, Zimbra has been an ‘almost but not quite’ Exchange alternative - it offered the web GUI and the Outlook compatibility, but not the standards based calendar protocol (CalDAV) or the mobile device support of its big brother. Zimbra’s latest version, which has only been in the wild for a few months, is different.

Part 1 of 3: Workgroup/Corporate Collaboration - The Phantom Menace
For years, workgroups and corporate environments have needed a solution that combined a mailsystem with collaborative tools, like a calendar and shared contacts. For years, this solution was only provided by Microsoft in the form of Microsoft Exchange.
For years, Microsoft Exchange was bar-none the best tool [...]