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IMD 4005 Open Source Presentation

Published on March 21, 2010 By Todd Lyons

This is a presentation on Open Source I created for Interactive Multimedia & Design (IMD) students enrolled in the Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT) Degree program (a joint collaboration between Carleton University and Algonquin College). Audio: Presentation audio (MP3 format) [37.4 MiB] Presentation audio (Ogg Vorbis format) [36.4 MiB] Slides: Download now or preview on [...]

New year, new OS?

Published on February 1, 2010 By Todd Lyons

So far it’s shaping up to be a year of changes.  Some milestone birthdays, the family website on a content management system (at long last), and now, a change of operating system. After about 3 years of running Kubuntu on the family desktop, I’ve switched to openSUSE.  Not a huge change I guess, switching from [...]

On Free Culture

Published on January 27, 2010 By Todd Lyons

I love free.  I blog about it; I tweet about it; I consume it; I produce it. Free Culture is a difficult concept for some to understand, primarily because we have been born and raised in a capitalist society where few things in life are truly free, both in terms of their monetary cost and [...]

Open Formats and Open Source for Better Government

Published on January 4, 2010 By Todd Lyons

The Government of Canada is currently reliant on proprietary file formats and proprietary software applications, which lock it into a licensing bind with a single software manufacturer — Microsoft.  There is not only a question of cost — as we pay a monopoly corporation for per-seat licenses to run software that already dominates the market [...]

MythTV – The Do-It-Yourself DVR

Published on December 2, 2009 By Todd Lyons

My television watching has decreased exponentially with every passing year. It wouldn’t take much statistical analysis to determine a correlation (and probable causal relationship) between this trend and the additional children that have also arrived at Chez Lyons over the years. I’m not complaining; it’s two blessings in one. More tangible enrichment; less etheral mind [...]