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My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. Now that I'm retired I still use GNU/Linux on every computer in my home except the smartphones which run Android/Linux.Lately, I've been giving lots of thought to the world I inherited and which I will leave to my descendants. I'm planting grass, trees, flowers and vegetables in my large lot and I've ordered a Solo EV. I plan to charge my Solo by means of a tracking solar array. Life is good if you have a purpose. I do.
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Daily Archives: October 7, 2011
LibreOffice – One Year On
Richard Hillesley has written a great review of LibreOffice as a project. Key points: More contributions by more people have been made in one year than in one decade of OpenOffice.org. That’s a testament to the stifling of FLOSS by … Continue reading
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SJVN v RMS (and me)
SJVN wrote, while criticizing RMS’s take on the departure of Steve Jobs, “we also know that Jobs was also essential to our modern computing world. Jobs was our generation’s Disney, its Edison.” That is nonsense. At the time M$ and … Continue reading
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M$: Insecure, by Design
How else can you explain that all supported versions of Internet Exploder have the same vulnerability to injection of malware? M$ is copying its mistakes or the bug is not a bug but a feature. see TheRegister see Debian GNU/Linux … Continue reading
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M$ Blacklists a Famous University
No kidding. Hotmail blocked all of Oxford U for sending too much e-mail… They’ve unblocked now but more than a day of e-mail has piled up. Way to treat customers, M$. see Microsoft Appears to Have Blacklisted Oxford University
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Samsung and Google Will Unveil Android/Linux 4.0 on Tuesday, 11 October, 2011
It has been a long wait but the combined version of Android/Linux suitable for tablet or smart phone or any PC, for that matter, will be released on 2011-10-11. Specs on the device are pretty cool: 1280×720 screen (curved, too) … Continue reading
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