# sudo addgroup <groupname>
To add a new user to a existing group:
# sudo adduser <username> groupname
IntelliJ open sourced – Community Edition available now!
The interesting thing about IntelliJ is that people who have used all 3 major Java IDEs (Eclipse, Netbeans and IntelliJ) all swear by IntelliJ, and yet most Java developers spend all their time using either Eclipse or Netbeans. Hmm. Anything to do with them being free? Well JetBrains is coming late to the open source party, but their new Community Edition is available for download here.
Google Chrome browser coming to Mac soon
Google’s chrome browser will be coming to the Mac soon, according to this post on The Register. Early releases may be found out on the web if you go looking.
Server failure brings doubt to Microsoft’s cloud-based plans
Microsoft has seriously embarrassed themselves and brought huge doubt to the viability of their Office Live incentive from their server failure this week, impacting all Sidekick phone users. Although they are saying that Office Live is built with server redundancy as a key part of their infrastructure, the fact that they have completely failed to offer redundancy for their Danger Sidekick phone users is obviously a major blow for Microsoft’s credibility to run any online/cloud-based service.
Quite how they allowed themselves to get into an unrecoverable position losing all their users data is quite unimaginable.