Code and Technology

Observations on technology

Microsoft AntiSpyware: Not Too Shabby

Microsoft has released an Anti-Spyware application, currently in beta testing, appropriately named “Microsoft AntiSpyware (Beta)”. I've been running it for a few weeks now and I can honestly say it ain't bad.

LogMeIn Remote Control

I came across a product review in Business Week about easy to use remote control products and saw something that caught my eye: The word “free”. Followed shortly by the word “secure”. So I decided to give it a shot.

LAMP on Xandros 2.0 OCD

I've been searching for the perfect Linux distro to act as a LAMP (Linux/Apache/mySQL/PHP) development environment for a number of web sites I support, and it's been a painful search. I was running Red Hat for a while, until they killed off their free version. I gave Fedora Core 2 (and then Core 3) a shot, but the networking was spotty at best. I looked at Mandrake, a Red Hat descendent, but it wasn't much better.