Yesterday, I downloaded the ISO for Ubuntu Studio from one of their mirrors onto my Windows XP Pro desktop at work. I’ve been an email discussion with a number of educators and one of the innovators in this discussion owns a Macintosh with Parallels and he has Feisty Fawn and Ubuntu Studio loaded in a couple of virtual machines.
Open Source
Google Apps
If you haven’t seen Google Apps and whether you’re a small business, non-profit or a large enterprise you owe it to yourself to surf on over.
Home server
I’ve been reading about Microsoft’s new home network server. I’ve thought about that sort of thing before. I’m sure they’ll sell a bundle of them. With a little work you can easily build a Linux based home server and probably at a fraction of the cost of the proprietary product.
Willoughby’s Coffee
This week through my affiliation with Ubuntu Linux I met a new business and I’m happy to recommend them to readers of this blog. I’ve added them to my links. I hope you give them the business. They are Fair Trade Certified. Be sure to visit Willoughby’s Coffee online. You can visit my business website … Read more
Open Office v. Microsoft Office
This week a fellow member of the faculty where I work suggested that our use of Open Office with students was actually prohibiting those students from getting employment when they left our school.
Then you win
First they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. – Mahatma Gandhi
That is what is happening in the Microsoft
Viral freedom
Today when I checked my email I had received a warning from Symantec that the new Trojan.Peacomm had been identified and that Symantec,
Built from scratch solar car
This is a really great idea hatched by some enterprising high school students and an adult in New Hampshire. It makes you wonder why we can’t solve dependence on middle east oil. You don’t think our politicians have sold us out do you? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0JNohHaqM4]