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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: December 10, 2013
Good Stuff From GIMP Magazine
Gimp Magazine has lots of interesting and useful information about what can be done with GIMP but this news blew me away… “The aforementioned company recently announced that in roughly a three month timeframe they had received one million new … Continue reading
M$’s Tax On Android/Linux
Here we go again. The soon-to-expire-of-old-age software patent on long filenames is bouncing around German courts and was ruled invalid… “Microsoft’s FAT (File Allocation Table) patent, which concerns a "common name space for long and short filenames" was invalidated on … Continue reading
Scaling IT From Now On
Meg Whitman, CEO of HP, stated, “If the cloud were an independent county, it would rate number five in energy use. China is number one, the US is number two, Russia is number three, India is number four and the … Continue reading
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Tagged adoption, Debian, desktop, FLOSS, GNU/Linux, Linux, market share, migration, server, small cheap computers, that other OS, thin client
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UK Invaded By */Linux
With many millions of Android/Linux tablets being shipped to UK, you would think StatCounter would be blown away but it seems to count only a fraction of the devices. There is a good correlation between the rate of change of … Continue reading
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Tagged adoption, android, FLOSS, GNU/Linux, google, Linux, market share, small cheap computers
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Woe For Wintel
The one valid argument Wintel has is that desktops/notebooks with “Intel Inside” and that other OS can do bigger tasks, as if most consumers actually had stuff to do… Check out these specs:“Galaxy J runs Android 4.3 and features a … Continue reading
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Tagged adoption, android, desktop, FLOSS, google, Intel, Linux, Samsung, small cheap computers, that other OS
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