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Mom, apple pie and open source

Mom, apple pie and open sourceRunning Centos....Well, I have to say not having any Windows OS'sto get infected and being the fact I installedRed Hat 8.0 on her pc several years ago and nowshe has Centos 5.2 with no issues.She does not know anything about computers, otherthan click on icon...

Tags: open source, government

Discussion threads 2009-01-30

Hypertense? Your number is STK39

It's called STK39, and it is located on chromosome number two. Its job is to produce a protein which helps regulate how the kidneys process salt. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Gene, Yen-Pei Christy Chang, Amish, Food & Beverage, Healthcare, Blogging, Manufacturing, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-12-30

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Flickr changes tune over Obama Joker image

Sorry but using a copyrighted material in satire or parody is allowed without permission of the copyright owner. Which is why Weird Al was able to make Amish Paradise without permission he normally asks out of courtesy and so he can collect royalties.I agree with thatAnd I am quite the...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, way thing, Obama Joker, Flickr, Obama, Equality, Bush

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

The "offline Twitter" experiment

Annabel Port, radio sidekick to Geoff Lloyd, a household name in England, is a technophobe and has had a number of run-ins with the Internet over the course of her career. In January 2007, a controversy sparked literally a complaint when her entry on Wikipedia was threatened with deletion after...

Tags: Twitter, Internet, Podcasts, Wiki, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Google Street View images can now be "deleted"

Google Street View images can now be "deleted"Street view should be bannedShould be banned in all city and residental locations. I have not found the service useful at all and that to me just leaves the service as a better tool for evil then good... Places like Iran must be...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Street View, Google Street View Image, Street View

Discussion threads 2009-06-22

Can you go without gadgets for a week?

Can you go without gadgets for a week?Sure, I could do it...well, within reason I could. I probably wouldn't be too happy trying to go with dark-age-style gadgetlessness but today, if I was to shut off my computer, cell phone. ipod, etc, I think I'd be fine. Much of what...

Tags: E-mail, Telecom & Utilities, Food & Beverage, phone

Discussion threads 2009-05-20

Bangladesh to be poster child of rising ocean levels

Bangladesh to be poster child of rising ocean levelsI love the apocalyptic predictions ofhorrible weather resulting from global warming when not a single climate model takes precipitation into account because we don't know how to model it.Maybe global warming will cause long, gentle rains and huge increases in snowfall in...

Tags: global warming

Discussion threads 2009-02-06

Stallman vs. the cloud computing tidal wave

Stallman vs. the cloud computing tidal waveStallman sounds panicIf FOSS folks believe they can compete with proprietary software, why not build their own FOSS cloud and then take the battle right to the other proprietary cloud platforms?Ever been in a restaurant kitchen ?How old is the food ? Where have...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Cable, OPEN SOURCE, Stallman, cloud computing, tidal wave, TV

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

Stallman vs. the cloud computing tidal wave

Stallman's recent statements regarding his dislike of "cloud computing" didn't surprise me in the least, given what I understand about his software preferences. In fact, I think this is less about Stallman's worry about the security implications of cloud computing, and more about his desire for a software ecosystems that adheres...

Tags: Software, GPL, Cloud Computing, Stallman, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Google to Buy Skype?

Google to Buy Skype?I for one woudl welcome thisI use Skype on a daily basis. And I have not been real happy with it as a product. If anybody could improve it, it would be Google.RE: Google to Buy Skype?Darn, just when I was getting ready to sign up for...

Tags: INTERNET, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Skype Technologies S.A., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-04-02

How Tough is Ozone Crackdown by Feds

How Tough is Ozone Crackdown by FedsElectric VehiclesWe need trees need clean, unpolluted air, we need to reduce our carbon emissions, we need to find alternatives to our gas guzzlers. We need to look at solar power, wind power, electric power. To switch to electric vehicles, take a look at...

Tags: ozone, pollution

Discussion threads 2008-03-13

Resistance is futile...I want to buy a Mac

Since I first started writing this blog, I've had very few nice things to say about Macs in education. I've never been the typical Windows or Linux fanboy, merely claiming that Apples suck. On the contrary, I've owned 2 Macs (an 8100 that I got instead of a...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Resistance, Desktops, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2007-12-16

The poor man's all-in-one PC for $380

The poor man's all-in-one PC for $380My 2 in 1 Rig should come very soonI just sold my tablet which gives me about $250 dollars in play money. I plan to mount a second PSU in mainboard in my already crowded system. This will be an interesting feat...

Tags: Keyboards, Mice, Desktops, poor man, PC, wireless keyboard, wireless

Discussion threads 2007-10-01

Congress: P2P networks harm national security

Congress: P2P networks harm national securityOK...I'll ask the question......Why are government employees within secure facilities or any workplace running Limewire clients? I must have missed something there.And wow....Congress is a fearful place these days. Evildoers?H-1B quota and War on TerrorismLets get real. The greater threat is H-1B contractors...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Pentagon, network, P2P, Henry Waxman, U.S. Congress, national security

Discussion threads 2007-07-24

How CIOs can meet executive expectations

How CIOs can meet executive expectationsClearly, there are solutionsThis is an interesting article, here is one of the best paragraphs:"CIOs need enterprise leverage because the pace and scale of customer demands are overwhelming traditional approaches to change. CIOs create enterprise leverage when a focused effort produces significant results for the...

Tags: Strategy, significant result

Discussion threads 2007-07-24

Help me redesign the web

Help me redesign the webdon't do flash. won't do flash as long as it is proprietary. lazy, carelesspeople do flash and call themselves programmers when they don't know the first thing about a real programming language.i will fight this proprietization of the web till my last breath.let the web author...

Tags: Scripting languages, Channel management, broadband, JavaScript, adv, Web, HTML

Discussion threads 2007-06-07

Proof-of-concept iPod virus discovered

Proof-of-concept iPod virus discoveredHey Chicken Little...You seem to blow things waaaaaay out of proportion. First you came out and said XBOX Live had been hacked, when it was actually people calling and getting operators to give the theives information.Now, you state there is an IPod virus, but look at what...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Digital music, Digital media, UNIX, Operating systems, Viruses and worms, AK-47, Apple iPod, virus, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-04-05

Tool turns unsuspecting surfers into hacking help

Tool turns unsuspecting surfers into hacking helpEasy fixUse Firefox and download and use the NoScript add on. Problem solved.Not particularly amazingThis is not the product of a great thinker, just someone simple enough to not be caught up in the wiz-bang! of the Internet. This has been possible since...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Programming languages, Scripting languages, SECURITY, Java, JavaScript, tool, ECMAScript, GUESS IT, hacking

Discussion threads 2007-03-20

HP hires new ethics officer

HP hires new ethics officerAn NCR cronie !!!Good choice, Mark. NOT !! I think it's about time for a Unitarian minister, or Amish guy or even a nun or something...What About HR and the Social #Who handed over the social security numbers to the Dunn or the investigators?...

Tags: Operational accounting, HR record, Human Resources, HR Department, social security number, Social Security, Hewlett-Packard Co., ethics

Discussion threads 2006-10-12

$3K for Fujitsu's new notebook? Gimme a break!

$3K for Fujitsu's new notebook? Gimme a break!Getting off the treadmillAt some point the technology that you have is exactly what you need. After that any upgrade other than security patches is a complete waste.Many businesses wouldn't have moved off of Win98 + Office97 if it they hadn't been pushed...

Tags: Notebooks, hardware, laptop computer, Fujitsu Ltd., notebook

Discussion threads 2006-07-27