The PhenixbluE » Linux http://phenix.thephenixblue.com Bringing Nonsense to the Masses since 2003! Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:49:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The Future of Simplify Media http://phenix.thephenixblue.com/2011/02/the-future-of-simplify-media/ http://phenix.thephenixblue.com/2011/02/the-future-of-simplify-media/#comments Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:49:19 +0000 Phenix http://phenix.thephenixblue.com/?p=604 So back around March of last year (2010), Simplify Media announced that it would be pulling it’s desktop and iPhone apps from the market and the company would be moving in a new direction (not yet disclosed at the time of the announcement). I recently came across the news that Simplify Media was purchased by none other than Google! Sounds like a dream come true right? Well, not for me! Although Google is a huge proponent for free/open source goodies, they have one huge strike against them in my book…….They don’t play well with Apple anymore! As excited as I am to hear Simplify Media gain the financial and marketing power of the great and powerful Google Machine, I also fear that the initial cross-platform direction Simplify Media had will go the wayside as far as mobile implementation goes. Since Google’s Android is now a direct competitor with Apple’s iOS, we may see cross platform at the desktop tier, but only the release of an official Android at in the mobile market. I guess we will see exactly how NICE Google can play in honor of keeping things open! Regardless, I can’t wait to see what Google does with a product that was already great!

-Phenix

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  • Hosting news
    • Server was successfully migrated from Valdosta to Atlanta
    • After a Hard Drive failure the server was successfully restored to new hardware (no data loss occurred)
      • New Hardware:
        • The WebRoot sites are  running on a single Apple Xserve G4 with plans to extend to 2 nodes once I procure another license for OS X Server 10.5 and a decent NAS for shared storage (2nd Xserve already on hand!).
    • The WebRoot mail services have been migrated off of OS X Mail Server and onto an Ubuntu Server running Zimbra. I will hopefully make a 3 part series on the implementation and migration, but for now just know that it’s running a lot smoother and is more easily managed!
  • Site News
    • I am closer to being finished with the new custom theme ( a few set backs with some of my code and the release of WP 3.x)
    • I have decided to drop the WPMU setup in favor of a standard WP single player site.
    • I will permanently move the site to http://thephenixblue.com once the new theme is ready.
    • I am in the process of procuring additional writers so we have new posts all the time!
  • Other News
    • I have decommissioned a few sites I used to have (vsumug.com and vsumug.org) due to lack of interest.
    • I have a new site planned (domain purchased), and I am in search of someone to do the graphics work for it. More details will come soon.

That’s about it for now! I will try to be better about churning out new content.

-Phenix

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If any of you have ever slapped a Linux distro on any PC, you know exactly how much of a pain it can be to get your USB, Embedded, or PCMCIA WiFi device up and running. Some people get lucky, and theirs may work right off. I’ve never been that lucky. My Linux WiFi experiences have always consisted of several hours spent making sure I had all relevant libraries to build NDISwrapper, snag the correct Windows drivers, make sure you have adjusted the power output of the USB/PCMCIA ports, etc, etc. After all that’s said and done…you then have to worry if all your hard work and settings will stick after a reboot. The guys over at http://easylinuxwifi.org/ have put their heads together and developed an extremely handy app to take the pain out of the process! This application automatically looks at what Wi-Fi card you have, it disables any wireless driver currently installed, fetches the correct Windows driver from the Internet and installs it with NDISwrapper. I have not personally used this app yet, but I’ll try to get a first hand review on it soon. If anyone has access to give this a whirl ASAP, please let me know.

-Phenix

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