Digital DawgPound

A part review / part guide to OS X from a Windows users point of view.
"An unexpected experience with the Mac came after I left it alone running in a dark room for the first time."
After recent issues with Windows Vista, and since a new updated version of Apple’s operating system had just been released [...]

I recently switched over to using Windows Vista / Office 2007 on my main PC - an Intel 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, with 2GB RAM.
So far the experience has been extremely disappointing and frustrating.
On Windows XP I rebooted maybe once a week or so, with Vista I am rebooting all the time due to lockups [...]

After testing out Trixbox I found out that Digium had started releasing its own Linux distribution through rPath, a company who specializes in customized Linux distributions for particular applications. I decided to give the distro a try and see what I thought of it. So I ended up downloading the Pound Key 1.2.1 ISO which [...]

I recently wrote a text file for oldskoolphreak.com about my experiences with Trixbox. I decided I should post the article here as well for anyone that hasn’t visited oldskoolphreak lately!
Somewhat recently I needed a fresh Asterisk box up and running ASAP for some testing I was planning on doing. I didn’t want to sit around [...]

So I was updating my home page earlier today, along with a bunch of other software here and there. I was “Hardening the system” as discussed on BRR #147 last week. Well, upon upgrading to the latest version, I suddenly got a parsing error on line 11 of my configuration file. Luckily, [...]

I just upgraded to Thunderbird 1.5 today on my Athlon X2 dual core Windows XP system and ran into an immediate problem. It timed out every single time it tried to check my mail! Since I had been using Thunderbird 1.07 all this time, I knew that somethign was obviously wrong with the new [...]