Colin Mattoon

(LinuxWorld) -- The GPL'd business accounting package Nola that we have been working with is a project under development. In Part 15 of our series, we set up a Nola Web server using Red Hat 7.2, and Nola stable release 1.1.1 and if you followed along, and set up your own, perhaps... (more)

(LinuxWorld) -- The Information Technology (IT) industry serves acronyms for breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven da... (oops! I meant to write, "24/7 365"). I've searched diligently for the right Linux accounting solution since Q4 Y2K minus 2, and naturally enough, there's an acro... (more)

(LinuxWorld) -- A problem inexperienced Linux users (like me) must overcome is the diversity of Linux distributions that result from free access to source code. Freedom comes at a price, and part of that price is paid when one attempts to install software that comes from third pa... (more)

(LinuxWorld) -- Why is accounting ignored by the Linux community? I find this puzzling. When I am puzzled, I sometimes rant and rave. If things get out of hand, sometimes the nice men in uniforms come to my side and inject me with a calming substance. I'm all better now, and let... (more)

(LinuxWorld) -- Boa: noun [Latin]Angry serpent that Steve Irwin (well-known crazed Aussie crocodile hunter featured on Animal Planet) drags from it's burrow to fondle and coo over.Article of apparel often sported by otherwise scantily clad ladies in photographs depicting [censore... (more)

(LinuxWorld) -- Before we continue and begin the integration of mail and QuickPage on our Text Messaging Gateway, there are a couple of items that need to be addressed. The first comes under the general heading of "Errata." It is no show stopper, but in Part 10 of this series, I... (more)

(LinuxWorld) -- My view of Debian probably derives from the fact that the Debian community doesn't rename a release every time it updates the operating system. The truth is, Debian "stable" (codenamed Potato) is considerably different today than it was a year ago. Now at release ... (more)

(LinuxWorld) -- A previously unstated message of our "Linux network for peanuts" series is, You don't need to know very much about Linux to put it to work in your business or your home. That's why I do not assume you are an advanced Linux user. We began with the premise that you... (more)

(LinuxWorld) -- When we last left our heroic Debian installation, Debian Linux was hungrily grabbing essential files needed to metamorphose our crusty old Pentium 75 into a lightning quick Linux X terminal. All "free as in speech" and "free as in beer" -- and all courtesy of the ... (more)

(LinuxWorld) -- I compared network and system administration to cooking in Part 6, "How to install Red Hat over a network" and, in this installment, individual Debian X terminals are on the menu. First, let's tidy the kitchen and clean the stovetop -- because some more readers ha... (more)

(LinuxWorld) -- It is tempting to draw an analogy between cooking and network administration. Slapping together pre-packaged convenience food may be easier than preparing a meal from scratch using fresh ingredients, but it isn't easier to eat, it actually costs far more and isn't... (more)

(LinuxWorld) -- Linux doesn't exist in a vacuum. The PC industry remains driven by Microsoft and the ever-upward hardware requirements of each successive transmogrification of Windows. Linux distribution developers recognize this and expend great effort attempting to ensure each... (more)

(LinuxWorld) -- If you're just joining us in this series, I suggest reviewing part 1, part 2, and part 3. Before we can install Linux on our users' PCs, we must select an appropriate Linux distribution. Back in part 3, we configured an application server, and I made no recommend... (more)

(LinuxWorld) -- In part 2 in this series, we reviewed the minimum specifications for both the application server and the PC X terminal machines. Each of these is equipped with a Linux-compatible Network Interface Card (NIC) and all are connected to an Ethernet -- either Thinnet (... (more)

(LinuxWorld) -- You may recall from Robin Miller's excellent report on Linux and X terminal computing at the city of Largo, FL, that Largo's main application server has dual 933-MHz processors and three gigabytes of RAM. (That's no ordinary commodity PC, and should qualify as a b... (more)

(LinuxWorld) -- A couple of days ago I had to add another workstation at work. Fortunately, we already had a monitor, mouse and keyboard, so all we needed was a PC with enough umph to run KDE, Star Office, AbiWord, and Netscape, which we use to access our browser-enabled applicat... (more)