Getting Spotify to work nicely on Linux

Note: the Linux Spotify client will only work with a premium Spotify account.

I spoke at the NYC PostgreSQL Users' Group meeting in December, and while there someone mentioned that Spotify is a great music service (and that they are using PostgreSQL!). So ...

OpenERP is increasingly becoming a serious contender in the ERP market, as its features and usability improve. This tip explains how its flexible views provide ways to save time retrieving the data you want. You can search for the exact data you are interested in by just filling out the ...

This month, credativ is pleased to welcome two new members of staff to the team in Rugby; as a leading specialist in Linux and Free Software, we are expanding in order to accommodate the growing demand for our services.

At credativ we invest in our employees - their growth and development ...

Saturday 17th September - credativ employees were among the volunteers of Rugby Linux Users Group (LUG) who held an open day at The Benn Partnership Centre in Rugby to promote Free Software to the local community.

Software Freedom Day is celebrated in over 100 countries worldwide; Linux User Groups in cities ...

Rugby, UK - 19 July 2011 credativ have been helping clients to benefit from OpenERP for 3 years now. During this time we have made 10 deployments from our UK office, including customising and writing additional accounting, invoicing, VAT, and reporting modules for specific client requests, many of which have been ...

Rugby, UK - 6 June 2011

credativ Ltd, the UK branch of the largest independent provider of Open Source consultancy in Europe, today announced that it is partnering with OpenERP in a move aimed at increasing OpenERP’s share of the UK enterprise resource planning market (ERP).

Chris Halls, MD, credativ ...

The System Administrator will often come across a situation where an SSH connection to Host B is only possible by making a detour via SHH to Host A:
client -> ssh A -> ssh B

To shorten this two-step process, an entry can be made in the ~/.ssh/config of Host A ...

Recursively finding Windows Internet Shortcut (*.url) files and changing them into GNOME desktop files

Over the past few days I have finally converted my wife's computer from WinXP to Linux (Ubuntu 10.10). One of the many fine points of the negotiation leading to this was that I needed ...

Rugby, 6 December 2010 - credativ Ltd and Black Duck Software Inc. have announced an international partnership to help further the deployment and integration of Open Source Software.

The OSSC (Open Source Support Centre) run by credativ in the UK, US, Germany and Canada will now also be providing support for ...

Earlier this year, blogger and PostgreSQL Committer Andrew Dunstan drew up a list of individual Committers to the PostgreSQL Project. We are proud to say that this list featured some of our employees.


In May, PostgreSQL's Andrew Dunstan published some data about the productivity of PostgreSQL Committers at 30 ...