We have been looking around at different options to help us collaboratively develop some of our software projects. We have been working on a few projects including a Content Management System (CMS) and a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution for our organization. I have actually…
“Waiting for Permission” error in Goldmine
I just received a bit of a panic phone call from our database administrator as Goldmine would no longer open. While he was performing the Goldmine database maintenance his workstation died (something else to fix later I guess). When he tried to log in again…
Free Group Project Management – activeCollab
activeCollab is a free group project management program that is very similar to 37Signals project management tool called Basecamp. I’ve checked out their web-site and it looks like a pretty decent tool. activeCollab is a solution that is designed to be hosted on a local…
Speed up Windows XP by Removing Useless Windows Services
If you ever take a look at your task manager in Windows you will notice that there are a lot of different programs and services running in the background, using up system resources and slowing down your computer. Following the tips on the following link…
Setting up a Free Linux Firewall
At our office we actually run a few separate networks to make sure that our main servers have the best protection available. For two of our three networks we run a free firewall based on Linux. Our favorite product for our free firewall is IPCop,…
150 Free Microsoft Windows XP Products
While running Windows XP it is easy to think that we are missing out on a lot of cool, free open-source software and applications. After all, not all open-source applications are available for a Windows PC. Microsoft however has provided us with over 150 free…