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Wow. Here's a great, lengthy article detailing all sorts of things about using Linux and open source software in small businesses. Linux: A Buyer's Guide for SMEs--ZDNet UK.

Windows flaws keep causing trouble for most Internet users. Earlier this week I was at a meeting of a group of tech professionals in the Seattle area, all of whom work with small businesses.

For my photographer and multimedia friends, here's a summary free Linux-based software available for rendering high definition images... Linux.com | High Dynamic Range images under Linux.

Just stumbled upon a pretty cool web interface to a centralized backup system. You can manage a series of snapshot backups of all the computers on your network. It can automatically send a user an email if there's a repeated problem of missed backups.

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" Here at Freelock, we're strong believers in that maxim. The problem is, so much about computing is broken these days. And in most cases, we've just learned to live with the problems.

You have had choices. For the past decade, your choice has been between crash-prone and insecure Windows, incompatible, expensive, and slightly strange Macs, or highly technical, user-unfriendly Linux. Times are changing, for all three.

Now here's something everyone should do, before plopping down a few hundred dollars on Microsoft Office:
NewsForge | NewsForge presents free OpenOffice.org training videos.

Fascinating read here, about how a copy-protected music CD from Sony installed a surriptitious program on a computer, hid itself completely from view, and made itself nearly impossible to remove without crippling the user's computer.

Another very technical article. This one describes how to set up an infrastructure for securely providing single sign-ons to multiple systems in a LAN. Paranoid Penguin - Single Sign-on and the Corporate Directory, Part I | Linux Journal

... we've done a few rescues at Freelock Computing lately. I just stumbled across a nice article with some in-depth troubleshooting tips over at Linux Magazine.

This is a bit technical, but contains steps for securing LDAP to control user access to your network. Linux.com | Advanced Linux LDAP authentication.

Voice Over IP (VoIP) is becoming a main part of the small business infrastructure. As phone networks converge with data networks, security becomes more of a concern.

Here's a fascinating interview with Gary Edwards, who was on the committee that developed OpenDocument as a standard.