cparrish's blog

Welcome

November 21, 2005 - 14:05 — cparrish

Welcome to my site, I'm Carl Parrish, the founder and CEO of PCL Design and Consulting, a Software Consulting firm in Tempe Arizona. And a open source evangelist. If you want to know more about me vist my google profile page

Why I'll be updating to Fedora Core 5

March 14, 2006 - 22:29 — cparrish

I've stepped away from living on the edge. I no longer download the lastest nightly of Firefox nor grab each and every test version of OpenOffice. My time has become a much valued comodity and generally speaking I just don't need the latest and greatest anymore. My business and even my home network requires stabilty. Therefore each release of Fedora is thoroughly evaluated before I decide if its worth taking the time to install on my various systems. FC4 got me because I needed to have PHP 5.0, MySQL 4.1.

Ubuntu + CNR.... a match made in heaven?

March 13, 2006 - 21:07 — cparrish

In case you hadn't heard, Linspire has been considering offering CNR for Ubuntu. If they do this Ubuntu may actually become my desktop of choice. I never really liked Lindows, don't know if it's because of the name or KDE, or the stupidly insecure way they deal with root access. I've never really thought it was worth converting.

Dealing with Spam

March 13, 2006 - 19:00 — cparrish

Well as I posted earlier. CP.com has become a target for spamers, so I have to instill some security measures. I hate doing this because on the old version of cp.com people basically stopped posting when I did. This time I'm going to try to make it easier. First all anonymous comments will be screened before they show up on the site. I'll try to check at least once a day to see if any new comments have been posted. If you're a registered user your comments will be approved automatically (meaing your comments will be viewed right away). I've also made it easier to register now.

Building The Perfect GNOME Workstation

March 13, 2006 - 18:25 — cparrish

Here is a pretty good article on configuring GNOME. I learned a few things so I thought I'd share.

Microsoft So...?

March 7, 2006 - 00:16 — cparrish

Okay so Microsoft has started releasing info on its Origami Project, because there was a leak and the infomation was getting out anyway. (And this is supposed to be the company that we will trust with all our securety needs?). What I don't get is why all the fuss? Knowing MS there is no way its going to do all that MS is saying its going to do (and so far they are mostly just hinting at what its supposed to do anyway). The Nokia 770 is here now.

Cool Gadget of the day

March 5, 2006 - 23:48 — cparrish

Sometimes when looking at a product my geek senses start tingling and I start figuring out how I can justify buying one. My current must have gadget is the tank less water heater. Hey I live in the Desert, where there hasn't been any rain for over 120 days so I could say that my interst is in water conservation.

Quotes of the day

February 20, 2006 - 12:51 — cparrish

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. -John F. Kennedy US Democratic politician (1917 - 1963)

- Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain