Recently I switched my Dell B130 laptop from Linux Mint 10 to Lubuntu 10.10 because the bloat/drag was really making it a pain to use. Lubuntu’s LXDE desktop is very snappy and the default applications are, as you would expect, lean on resources. My need for good Audioscrobbler support and streaming audio left me dissatisfied with [...]
“It is a reality of our time that the same companies promoting health care products are also largely responsible for underwriting their research.” An excerpt from The Industry of Illness in US Health Care: Why Privatization Is Inefficient – Part 3 The following ad didn’t really fit the tone of my “scholarly” discussion quoted above, [...]
I’ve seen some amazing touring exhibits of Egyptian and Roman antiquities. What if the geographic restrictions that corporations use to limit the viewing of online content were applied to physical art? This piece by Paul Mutant puts it in perspective.
If you’re like me, you want the latest and greatest apps on your phone, and you want them for free. Linux has spoiled me to expect top quality, nag-free, ad-free software. In that regard, Android is a bit of a letdown (as are all the mobile phone platforms, to be fair). In developing a Marketplace [...]
I love my Android phone. Here’s a useful video I found that summarizes many of the techniques I also use to prolong the battery of my Desire.
I love this. Could it be expressed any more elegantly?
Here’s an experiment. While I did have to stitch together two pages to show this result in a single picture, the writing is my own work, and the results are the site’s actual response. So where’s my book deal? Try it yourself – http://iwl.me/
Linux OS desktops have had Virtual Workspaces since long before Windows or MacOS—just one of the reasons I’ve been a full time Linux user for the last 6 years, with no temptation to switch back. Here’s a video demonstrating Novell’s openSUSE Linux, which is what I’m running on my main desktop at the moment.
People are bowled over by Linux with the new KDE 4 desktop, believing that they’re looking at Windows 7. (I’ve been using Linux with a KDE desktop since early 2005).
Source: woodleywonderworks Later today I’ll be attending the Government of Canada’s Wiki Community of Practice group to network with peers, learn from them, and try to recognize a few of them in my own way. Specifically, I’ll be handing out the first “Gnomies”—GCPEDIA 1K Club Award statuettes recognizing 1,000 edits to the wiki. Despite my [...]
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