I had a problem with Windows Vista not accepting an IP address, being offered from a Linux DHCP server. Apart from changing the already known registry entry (DhcpConnEnableBcastFlagToggle), I had to add the following line to my dhcpd.conf 

It's out there. We've been waiting for this a long time now, but finally the new name for Postnuke is known: Zikula. Congratulations, guys! The announcement tells us the new is derived from the Zulu language. Read more in theofficial press release.

Linux is better than window$, there, I've said it. On some rare occassions, you still need to run windows and I've tried several options in the past: vmware, qemu, virtualbox... All of them had their backdraws. Most of them just being slow. The latest I've tested is andLinux, and I must say, this one has impressed me the most. You're able to run almost any linux application, directly in windows. You're still running a linux distro (ubuntu) in the background as a windows service and although you need to share your files between the host and the guest, you're actually running the linux application within the windows desktop. All the others I've tested ran those application on the guest desktop. Here is a screenshot, illustrating my point:

I had a little shutdown problem with my laptop which has ubuntu as OS. If your ubuntu installation hangs on shutdown and you had NFS mounts, you'll probably solve it by following this guide:http://blog.avirtualhome.com/2008/03/10/ubuntu-shutdown-problem-cifs-related/

Here is a list of some interesting blogs on Linux
http://blog.linuxoss.com/
http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/
http://vertito.blogspot.com/

Havin' an iso image of the latest movie on dvd is all pretty well, but you still would like to see it. You could mount the image and let xine play the vob files or take advantage of the dvd:// capability of xine like this:

xine “dvd://path/to/your/file.iso”

Even handier would be to have that command in your context popup (by right-click'ing the file). To have that in KDE, open up the directory "~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/" and make a xine_iso.desktop file with the following content. 

[Desktop Entry] ServiceTypes=application/x-iso
Actions=Xine ISO
[Desktop Action Xine ISO]
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=xine &qout;dvd://%U&qout; Icon=exec MimeType=application/x-iso
Name=Play DVD ISO with xine

Now right-click an iso image file and look under "Actions"

Enjoy the movie!

More help on editing context menu's can be found at: http://legroom.net/2007/04/20/adding-custom-actions-kde-context-menus

Tonight the server got upgraded to the latest stable version of Apache/MySQl/PHP.

Gmail now also has IMAP support. That means you can leave your email on the servers of gmail, keeping it accessible through the browser and handle it your favorite email client at the same time. The next article shows you how to configure KMail to get access to your gmail account. It isn't to hard to figure out what to do with the other email clients you might have running. http://linux.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/howto-configuring-kmail-with-gmail-imap-and-disconnected-imap/ Should you need help for the other ones:http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=75726

Some people are having problems with MSN's Messenger on Vista when DEP is active. DEP closes the application whenever you try to logon. here are some links where you can find a solution to the problem:http://www.fanatic.net.nz/2007/03/14/how-to-stop-dep-crashing-messenger-on-vista/http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/forms/portal20.cfm?recordid=1130&formid=3390&website=AcerPanAm.com/us&siteid=7293&words=all&keywords=&areaid=7To turn off DEP all together, try this: http://forum.mess.be/lofiversion/index.php/t20709.html