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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 1, 2012
Help Make LibreOffice Even Better – Take the Test
LibreOffice is examining icons for the menus. If you have a few minutes visit http://goo.gl/6lACc and take the test to see how many icons you recognize. I missed a few because I don’t use the full suite daily… I also … Continue reading
Giorgio Pioda: “Every Monday we had 20 machine to fix for viral infections”
Different organization. Different country. Different language. Same problem. That other OS makes itself useless to schools by giving a home to malware. That was the last straw where I last paved over a school full of XP machines. “ We … Continue reading
MySQL, One of the World’s Great Databases, Keeps Improving
MySQL 5.6 will have some dramatic increases in performance: “Oracle says that the throughput of InnoDB tables has been greatly improved and that it handles, for example, twice as many read transactions per second as in version 5.5, and almost … Continue reading
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News From Asia
There are lots of developments more or less important to IT this morning: “HDD shipments in 2012 for the overall computer market, including PCs, are forecast to reach 524 million units, up 4.3% from 502.5 million units in 2011, according … Continue reading