TooMuchGreen

TooMuchGreen kick started a whole chain of events for me over the past two years and has a huge place in my life, it pulled in clients for me and expanded my personal and professional sides into areas I previously had limited exposure too, let alone forge a career from, however the changes have moved my on-line (and off-line) presence here, there and on to the reformation of MEBBi solutions, and that’s where you’ll find me and the tech-blog these days.  Read more... (estimated reading time 51 secs)

Our 1st Desktop Linux for Business workshop highlighted a not unexpected interest for deepened Active Directory integration through expanded Linux client AD group policy scenarios with Likewise Enterprise. Feedback also requested inclusion of working Exchange eMail and corresponding VPN client connectivity to an external domain. Constructive and most welcome requests but through working toward inclusion have once again revived the unfortunate shortfalls across versions of MS Exchange, leading to the usual apportion of potential for conformity with Microsoft at the centre (aren’t they always?).  Read more... (estimated reading time 2:15 mins)

Funky yes? I think so, it’s my new iPad Mini (a.k.a my modded iPod Touch).

Obviously I’d love an iPad, and there’s no doubt I’ll end up with one eventually, however during a Sunday with not much on apart from tea and ginger biscuits I thought it would be fun to move things in the right direction and have some fun with my solid old Touch on the way. The results are really quite impressive.

So, here’s how I did it (For info – my iTouch is running the latest firmware – 3.1.3)…  Read more... (estimated reading time 1:29 mins)

We have now finalised details with NTI Leeds for the desktop Linux integration workshop and are taking bookings. The day is modestly priced at £99 (Full price) or £39 “Funded” for Yorkshire based businesses (Click the banner for booking information)

As previously mentioned, the day is predominantly “hands-on” and is constructed to provide technical integrators with the concept and skills overview required to implement an Ubuntu Linux desktop platform into their existing Microsoft enterprise network.

Content structure is as follows -  Read more... (estimated reading time 49 secs)

Origins

• UNIX
• GNU Foundation
• The Open Source Initiative

Why Linux?

• Stability

Reports estimate up to a quarter of all home computers could be part of a global bot-net.

A what?

A “bot-net”, a network of connected computers used with predominantly malicious intent by a central hacker.

Control is gained through installation of the “bot” via a worm or virus with the resulting PC resource invariably used for carefully orchestrated bulk spam attacks on the hackers internet site of choice (Known as distributed denial of service attacks – DDoS, for short). The effects of these attacks can quite literally cripple an online presence of any size.  Read more... (estimated reading time 1:54 mins)

Check out the image, what you’re looking at is a graphical representation of the worlds top 500 supercomputers filtered by “OS” (operating system).

The top 500 list has been maintained bi-annually since 1993 by http://www.top500.org and for extreme geekery you can’t beat digging about in the stats and facts. For example, the present top dog is the US based “Jaguar” system based at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory running AMD x86_64 Opteron Six Core 2600MHZ CPU’s topping out at 224162 cores in total, yes, that’s 224,162 cores, and yes, your home computer only has 2 cores.  Read more... (estimated reading time 1:01 mins)

Desktop Linux for business has it’s own set of demands addressed by the likes of Active Directory integration through Likewise Open & MS Exchange connectivity through Gnome Evolution (both offered in the latest release of Ubuntu 10.04) however back at the socially networked media hungry home PC things are a little different, luckily that’s where Linux Mint lives and the latest release is most certainly a housemate you’ll enjoy having around.  Read more... (estimated reading time 3:11 mins)

Handheld browsing is rapidly catching up to the desktop with forecasts predicting mobile browsing set to become the most common method of internet access by 2103.

Businesses will need to re-format their on-line content if they wish to present themselves coherently across the mobile landscape, perceptually quite a task however inspired start-ups like Mobile-iSites™ are easing the pain by providing a smooth, stylish and cost effective solution.  Read more... (estimated reading time 59 secs)

To promote and advise on the suitability of modern day Linux as the refined and viable enterprise desktop client it has become MEBBI™ Solutions are working together with NTI Leeds to produce and run a regular “Desktop Linux” workshop for platform and system integrators. The day will be hosted at NTI’s superb training facility at Old Broadcasting House in Leeds and is presently introduced as follows..

Integrate to Enable
Across todays IT enterprise is a growing realisation for the alluring benefits of open source software.  Read more... (estimated reading time 1:22 mins)

Just because TooMuchGreen are open source advocates this doesn’t in any way mean we’re blinkered Microsoft haters, far from it, we’re open to all solutions and merely like to promote the ones we believe are best suited for the task in hand, whatever it may be. We endorse Microsoft Active Directory for network infrastructure & resource management but recommend Ubuntu Linux as an enterprise client and for web/database server side technology.  Read more... (estimated reading time 2:05 mins)