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- Open Source
- Refers to software that is distributed with its source code so that end user organizations and vendors can modify it for their own purposes. Most open source licenses allow...
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- Open source booming in K-12 education
- Open source booming in K-12 educationOne thing...Peer reviewed journals are nice and all. But do you really expect high schoolers to understand the papers, and how many of them are free and accessible for free from home?Other than that, I'd be interested to see you delve deeper into this topic.I...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, open source, Internet, computer, K-12
- Discussion threads 2007-08-31
- Open source booming in K-12 education
- Can open source succeed where Windows and the Mac have failed? I'm talking here of K-12 education. An eSchools report right says open source spending is growing 70% per year, and will be up 800% in 2011 from last year's level. The harsh words...
- Tags: K-12, Education, Internet, Science, Open Source, Kid, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-08-31
- 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
- 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
- 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
Additional Resources
- To Boldly Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone Before
- Google's new Imaging Satellite aboard a Boeing Delta II Rocket. Source: GeoEye I don't know what it is about rockets, but I don't know a single man, hetero or gay, who isn't extremely turned on or even intimidated by them. I've never seen...
- Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Imaging, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-07
- Google demos speed benchmarks for Chrome
- Google demos speed benchmarks for ChromeGoogle Chrome - resource hog .....I know some one who has trialed "Chrome", and was taken initially by the speed, but in less than one day was back to using FireFox as Chrome became a resource hog! Once you have more than a few browser...
- Tags: Web browsers, Chrome, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Judge finds Oracle's Ellison withheld evidence
- According to Bloomberg, in a ruling that has important implications for Larry Ellison, Oracle's CEO and the company itself, district judge Susan Illston found that Ellison: ...deliberately destroyed or withheld e-mails and failed to preserve tape recordings that should have been turned over to lawyers for shareholders suing him......
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Susan Illston, Larry Ellison, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- The Linux laptop goes to school
- The Linux laptop goes to schoolOn the Mouse Buttons ...[i]Robin’s biggest complaint was the slow response of the mouse buttons. But it’s something you can get used to, she said.[/i]Don't use the mouse buttons they're too slow, instead use the tap, double tap and side scroll features on the touchpad....
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Mice, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, mouse, Linux laptop, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Good news on the Dell netbook front
- Just a quick update now that I have a minute to sit down tonight. I heard from my Dell rep this afternoon that, although it's not available on the Dell K-12 education pages, the Inspiron Mini 9 is available to all education customers in quantity. Here's...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Blogging, Notebooks, Internet, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Numark iDJ2 Mixing Console for iPod
- Photo gallery:Numark iDJ2When Numark unveiled the first iDJ iPod mixer in 2005, the half-baked product required two iPods, and lacked many essential features. After three years back at the drawing board, Numark's iDJ2 ($599 retail, $499 street) finally makes good on the promise of a professional iPod DJ mixer....
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, console, Numark iDJ2, Apple iPod
- Product reviews 2008-09-05
- LHC scientists get death threats
- LHC scientists get death threatsIgnorance produces fear...And issuing death threats is not the christian thing to do. And $10.00 to a donut will get you that a religiously motivated faction is behind the threats. Something to research further.RE: LHC scientists get death threats - is it because Roger Federer lost...
- Tags: Anti-Matter, LHC, death threat
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Mainstream media writes Windows obit
- Mainstream media writes Windows obitMS should have never...killed off XP. Especially when such a huge segment of the market is tired of being forced fed what they do not want.This article makes a good point about users beginning to realize that as long as they can hit the web rather...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), LIKE IT, Microsoft Windows, Hewlett-Packard Co., mainstream media, Windows obit, Microsoft Windows Vista, obit, Microsoft Corp., operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- 2011, A News Odyssey: Digg-ing Meets Up With Digging
- The crossover is close. The Internet is poised to overtake the newspaper industry in total size as an advertising medium. And the question is whether it can also overtake it as a news medium. Says here, the year will be 2011. That is likely to be when...
- Tags: Revenue, Advertisement, Internet Advertising, News, Governor, Internet, Operational Accounting, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- An open source rootkit kit
- An open source rootkit kitOh my God!This is as scandelous as giving food to the starving instead of selling it to them.How "un-American"!
- Tags: open source rootkit kit, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- The Office (2.0): No paper? No problem.
- I think I may have been the only person at this week's Office 2.0 conference using - gasp! - a pen and paper. There was no program "book" when I registered - the agenda was online only. And none of the exhibitors handed out press releases on paper - though...
- Tags: Document, Microsoft PowerPoint, Appirio, SlideRocket, Digital Signatures, Collaboration, Productivity, Groupware, Fax, Microsoft Office, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- The Importance of Dissent
- The Importance of Dissentwould be nice...It would be nice if we could "shout from the rooftops" without fear of reprisal. In reality, with most companies, the options are "jump ship" or "keep your mouth shut and do as you're told".It's hard to disagree publicly with your companyI agree with you...
- Tags: Drizzle, Mat, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
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