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Often I get ideas when working on a PC, ideas for things that would be nice to have on my system. Most of the time I sooner or later discover someone else had the same idea and build the thing I was thinking of only better.

Many times I have experienced windows system administrators who just didn't care about Linux. These people are not against Linux, they just don't have very much of an opinion about it. If I try to convince someone like that, I can take my whole live just trying to convince them to even try it. But I found a way to make them experience Linux.

As some people commented on my previous post they don't think you need a virus scanner in Linux ,I have some examples. These things are found by ClamAV: There is a group of hackers defacing sites, they specialize in Joomla websites. If you run a joomla website for a while, and don't upgrade it when security updates are published, you have about a 99% change of it being hacked (don't know any real numbers, but I do know people who have experienced this several times). Backdoor Script These guys use a backdoor script based on PHP-shell, php shell is a PHP program which gives you a shell like environment in which you can run system commands on a remote server.

1. There are no linux viruses This is a myth, there are linux viruses. Not many, not as harmful but they do exist. 2. A virus scanner uses to much resources. You don't need to run a virus scanner all the time, if this is what bothers you. Having one at hand couldn't hurt. 3. Viruses in Linux are harmless, as they can't access root.

The other day a friend came to me with a problem, he had been surfing the internet for information about the conficker worm virus. As he misspelled the name as configer virus he didn't find a lot of real information on this virus. What he did find was a lot of links to site which were indicated by google as harmful to your computer. You know the kind where google says near the link: This site can harm your computer.

We have all seen this great article: http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2009/03/53-pages-10-mon.html Where a 2 page article in the NY times is referenced. This security article doesn't refer to windows as being the security risk. And the NY times reporter responds to the inquiry by saying this is a organized systematic espionage article. Which has nothing to do with Linux. No it has nothing to do with Linux, that's why it's completely insane. If it were about Linux it would be about a systematic failure in espionage.

Thanks to Mike Dailey a very interesting discussion has been sparked on Linux and open source in the enterprise. For anybody wanting to follow the entire discussion here's how it goes.

In response to my article: 10+1 things to tell your boss why you should migrate to Linux An Article was written by Mike Dailey Titled: Think before you speak migrating the enterprise to linux criticism While I welcome the criticism, I think it's to bad the author has taken it upon himself to try to take down all arguments. This pushed him to the point where he had to come up with arguments which can't be taken completely serious. This harms him, as I've even seen the term FUD been coined up against him. While I don't think he is really against Linux adoption, I do think he went trough a little to much effort to make his statement. I think according to his conclusions I'll have to clarify some points in response.

A while ago somebody asked me what he could tell his boss to convince him to migrate to Linux, so I made him a small list.

Linux will never rule the desktop, and here's why: If you draw a line giving the rate at which Linux is taking over the desktop you'll see it'll take several years from now to become the biggest operating system on desktops. This is never going to happen, because the desktop as it is will die long before we reach this point. The good thing is Microsoft will probably die with it!

According to an article on TechNewsWorld, IE8 could be more secure than firefox and chrome, just because there's more speed in the execution of javascript in the new firefox and chrome browsers. While IE is only optimized for popular pages (rendering). I'm sorry but this smells like FUD.

Predicting the far future is not possible, nobody could have foreseen the rise of the internet or what gigantic part communications would play in today's world. The not so far away future is also not predictable with absolute certainty. Many people do take a stand on the technology of the future though, and I think some things are just an add up of the technologies invented today. I like to contemplate the technology of the future and there are some things I think will be very important in the future of Linux. Following a small list of 5 technologies that will in my opinion shape the future of linux.

In the first part of this series of articles I stated some things about designers and their apple computers, I said that these machines are overpriced and overhyped. This made some people think this articles were about Linux vs Apple. I got a lot of comments from people who seem to like apple:-) and a lot of arguments, some probably valuable. The truth is this is not about Linux vs Apple, it's about Linux being cool. Linux is cool, cooler than windows and cheaper than apple. How cool apple really is? I don't have a clue, I don't know too much about fruit.

Best racing game ever runs on linux! Disclaimer: I'm not a racing game fan, in general I don't like racing games at all. So if I say something is the best racing game ever, it's not based on the usual things most racing fans would think make up the best racing game.

Linux the cool factor As I wrote in my last post, I think Linux is not perceived as cool by enough people. While Linux is definitely very cool! Last time I mentioned compiz, which gave very different responses. Some people think it's great others hate it. Today I'll throw in something completely different.

I have a bunch of designers at my job, and they all carry around an apple. No not the fruit, you know the vastly overpriced and over-hyped electronics brand. These guys think they are so cool with there notebooks running extremely expensive designer software. I think this is somewhat of a problem with Linux. While Linux is actually a lot cooler then apple, it's not perceived by enough people as being cool.

The absolute ultimate Linux beginners guide I stumbled upon an article at the BBC website. This is not a site I regularly visit, so I'm probably the latest person in the world to notice this article. I guess it's been noticed and many people already had their say on this. To bad there was no comment section with the article. But still I think there couldn't be enough people who have a say about this. I could start ranting here about how wrong he is with his conclusions, and how such articles are harmful by scaring people away from Linux. Which is true, but that's not my intention.

If you edit a lot of configuration files, and are confronted a lot with the configuration files edited by others, you probably spend a lot of time looking at the changes made to the file since the last time it was edited or installed. The standard command line utility diff does a reasonable job when it comes to finding small differences. It shows that it wasn't developed to create the best possible human readable output when you try reading long listings. diff output looks something like this:

windows user I've been a windows user for a very big part of my life, just like the most people in the western world I guess. I've converted myself to a Linux user, and these days I administer a mixed windows/Linux environment. Sometimes when I've been away from windows for a while, (I really try to avoid the windows machines,I have to do some maintenance now and then) I sit myself at the desktop I know from all these years.

How green is Linux? In my previous post 10 things to tell your kids when you ditched windows for linux One of the comments argued that Linux is no more energy efficient than Windows. So I did a little research. * First of all there's the tickless kernel