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- What if I get hit by a bus?
- After reading Marc Wagner's post "Don't be fooled, Linux is not free," I was struck by a few items. First and foremost, Marc is right. Linux is not a panacea. It doesn't take away the cost of doing business and it certainly requires a degree of expertise,...
- Tags: Open Source, K-12, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- Don't be fooled, Linux is not free
- I just finished reading Chris Dawson's most recent piece Linux definitely has a place in education and I couldn't agree more, until he said ..."If the choice is arbitrary, then would you rather pay hundreds of dollars or many thousands or millions at the enterprise level or would you rather...
- Tags: Open Source, K-12, Higher Ed, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-08
- Is Linux right for your school?
- My colleague, Chris Dawson, has written several excellent pieces recently about Linux mostly about the latest from the Ubuntu family of products but more recently about SuSE and he has made some excellent points. The question one has to ask though in deciding whether Linux is right for your school is...
- Tags: Education Technology, K-12
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- When faculty say 'NO' to UNIX/Linux
- Well, sooner or later, it was bound to happen. We are in the process of retiring our last two instructional UNIX/Linux labs. And guess what? Nobody seems to care! In fact, the faculty who have been using those labs for instruction have asked us to give...
- Tags: Open Source, K-12, Higher Ed, Education Technology, Classroom Tech
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- OLPC founder finally faces a 'grim reality'
- OLPC to run Windows? Say it ain’t so! was the headline and so far reader reaction is mixed. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes reports $175 OLPC deals blow to open source, guarantees Microsoft’s continued dominance. From the beginning, the One Laptop per Child foundation, the brainchild of MITs Nicholas Negroponte, has...
- Tags: Education Technology, Emerging Tech, Funding, Hardware, K-12, Microsoft, Open Source
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Why Linux will not displace Windows
- I firmly believe that, all else being equal, the differences between the Windows desktop, the Macintosh desktop, and the Linux desktop are negligible. With the proper applications, all three platforms will be capable of providing a satisfactory experience for any user. All three platforms have both free and...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Desktops, Linux, Microsoft Windows, desktop
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- And the battle rages on
- And the battle rages on"Education" is certainly a broad topicAs someone who works in a higher education IT, it is a little more apparent to me now that what students, and staff [b]need[/b] heavily depends on the setting.In the last talkback, I questioned someone's claim that Linux was an adequate...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux, K-12, desktop, software, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-12-15
- And the battle rages goes on
- I just finished reading Chris Dawsons article "Will your students be using Linux in 2007?" and, as usual, I agree with him 100% -- until he says "Businesses who have successfully made the switch to Linux often have a culture that caters to said enthusiasts and/or have dumped enough effort...
- Tags: Linux, Apple, Hardware, K-12, Higher Ed, Funding, Open Source, Education Technology, Microsoft Windows
- Blog posts 2006-12-15
- Will your students be using Linux in 2007?
- Im writing this post using Fedora Core 6 on my new laptop. Ive been running some flavor of Linux for a while now and I think Ive finally settled on Fedora Core since its doing such a nice job with both multimedia and office productivity tasks. Overall, it...
- Tags: Instant messaging, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, IM, Linux, 64-bit, Fedora Project
- Blog posts 2006-12-13
- So about those thin clients...
- Im writing this post from my new and now somewhat infamous laptop. More importantly, Im connected to my LAN wirelessly under Linux. Whoo Hoo! After lots of fussing with ndiswrapper and SUSE this weekend, I pretty well hosed the networking portion of my SUSE install. I have...
- Tags: Terminal services, Microsoft Windows, Thin clients, Operating systems, Instant messaging, OPEN SOURCE, Edubuntu, Ubuntu, Linux, Linux Terminal Server Project
- Blog posts 2006-11-06
Additional Resources
- Seesmic fires a third of staff as recession bites
- Loic LeMeur, CEO of Seesmic has announced the company is reducing its headcount by seven people. That may not sound like a huge number but as LeMeur says in the video announcement: ...the longevity of the company is obviously of significant importance - and thus we must reduce costs...
- Tags: Recession, Video, Seesmic, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ‘89
- Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak …..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Stock, IBM Corp., Tech Stock, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- On the Linux laptop the bundle is all
- In a Linux laptop, the bundle is all. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Linux Laptop, Laptop Computer, Linux, OpenOffice, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Wall Street: MSFT should buy Yahoo, consider RIM
- A Wall Street investor has suggested that the stars may be aligned just right for Microsoft to make another run at Yahoo, this time for $22 per share. Investment fund Mithras Capital, which owns more than 1.9 million shares, or 0.14 percent, of Yahoo, said Microsoft has a window of...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Financial Accounting, Search, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Finance, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Netbook returns blamed on Linux 'teething problems'
- Higher return rates for Linux-based netbooks don't necessarily reflect badly on the open-source operating system, according to Ubuntu backer Canonical. The return rate on Linux-powered netbooks may be higher than that for Windows netbooks, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing for Linux, according to Canonical. ...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Software, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk, netbook, Windows XP, MSI Wind, Asus Eeee
- News items 2008-10-10
- Unipro UGENE (exe)
- Unipro UGENE integrates most of the important molecular biology tools within a single graphical environment. UGENE runs on Linux, Windows, and MacOS platforms. Unipro UGENE view and analysis of annotated DNA or protein sequences, huge files support, native support of zipped documents, and chromatograms visualization. Number of DNA plots supported...
- Tags: Algorithm, DNA, Biology, UniPro, Unipro UGENE, Biotechnology, Engineering
- Software downloads 2008-10-10
- New MacBooks and MacBook Pros: $800 and Mini-DVI (updated)
- More details are emerging on the new MacBooks, due to be announced on Tuesday. Inquisitr received word that price lists provided to some Apple retailers in the United States include an SKU for an $800 notebook computer – a first for the Cupertino company. Apple retail...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro, Upside, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Is Microsoft's fatal flaw the computer?
- I was browsing on webmagazine Salon when I came across an interesting review written by Scott Rosenberg of the book "Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know" by Randall Stross. (The title of the article is, "Google's Vulcan death grip." Boy am I a sucker.) ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Flaw, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Productivity, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Opera bitten by 'extremely severe' browser bug
- Buried in the flurry of feature-related news surrounding the release of Opera 9.6 is the fact that the update fixes an "extremely severe" vulnerability that could expose Opera users to code execution attacks. According to an Opera advisory, which is not mentioned anywhere in Opera's giddy press...
- Tags: Opera Software, Web Browser, Applet, Rohlf, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Making money on open source
- IBM has used Linux to unify its product lines, it has used open source to deliver services, and it has continued to get top dollar for the time of its people despite their using open source tools. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
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