SCALE 6x LiveBlogging: Linux in Early Education
LA is wearing her typical veil of grey-brown smog. I've been here for enough hours that I can't really smell it anymore – or much of anything else, for that matter. I'm at the LA Airport Weston with the rest of the SCALE 6x attendees.
I'm sitting in Steve Oualline's session on Linux in Early Education. [...]
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What happens if one uses a MAC to read a ppt made on Windows?
I received an email today with the following subject, "What happens if one uses a MAC to read a ppt made on Windows?"
As far as I know, this is roughly what happens:
The angel GUIbriel shall sound the Mac OS X start noise and Steve Jobs (called JEHOBA by some), adorned with a mighty beard of [...]
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OpenMind 2007: Monty's Session on Building MySQL Community
I've come in late for Monty's session - everything seems to be running a bit early - how odd.
Monty's is covering mistakes in building communities - he's talking about Dream Box and how they have let their community fragment so deeply. Then he talks about how MySQL has provided a strong central point for the [...]
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OpenMind 2007: The Novell Keynote
Carlos Montero-Luque, the VP of Product Management for Novell's Linux Business Unit, takes the stage to give an overview of Novell's Open Source strategy and role in the market, along with how partnering is a key part of Free Software and Open Source business
If one would expect all BigCo software execs to be clued in [...]
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Lightning Talks on TV?
A few months ago, Ryan Yewell from the Lab with Leo Laporte dropped me a note to see if I was interested in presenting a segment on the show. Each segment is about six minutes - about the same length as a lightning talk.
While I've been mostly out of town when they've been shooting, I [...]
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Travelocity Overrun by Gremlins
http://travelocity.ca has always been a bit of a warty, grumpy service. If you visit it using platforms other than the Windows + IE, it grumbles, threatening to lose your reservation, displaying ugly gaffs in its styling or, in rare instances, randomly serving up sessions other than your own.
For the most part, the travelocity.ca's flaws [...]
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OSCON Highlight: r0ml's Keynote
r0ml's keynote is thoroughly awesome.
Some great quotes, include:
"… the Apache web server is the tomato of Open Source …"
"Approximately 87% of all American organization use Open Source … that's _terrible_." (This comes after discussing how Americans don't eat enough fruits and vegetables.)
"Windows XP is Open Source … we have won."
(Roughly phrased on my part) "Free [...]
Linux TCO edge: Lower labor costs
The question of whether Linux's total cost of ownership (TCO) is lower than that of Windows or other operating systems has inspired many fierce debates among enterprise IT professionals.
Full story at http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2907876,00.html
Tags: Linux, Uncategorized, Windows
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After a bit of clueless tweaking with pfaedit, I have a True Type Skarure font for Windows users. Get the font at http://zak.fooassociates.com/Monospace-Skarure.ttf.
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