Vilification Ping Pong: Open Source vs. Proprietary Solutions in the Library Setting
Category: OpenSource
Fight! Fight! The librarians are fighting about software!...
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The next document I put together will be done with LyX
Category: Technology
I don't mean blog posts or emails. For blog posts I use souped up gedit, and for emails I use pico. (There was a time when I thought I'd be using emacs for both of those, but emacs suffers from a deep philosophical dysfunction.) I'm...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:11 AM • 37 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Software needed: Nifty bash math tools
Category: Linux
And when I say bash math, I do not mean being mean to math, and I do not mean math as it is done in bash. I mean math as humans do it, but on the bash command line....
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:35 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I need your help picking out a tee-shirt.
Category: Atheism
I would very much like your help in picking out a tee-shirt to wear around town. Let me tell you about the town, and you'll be able to make an appropriate suggestion....
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:00 AM • 52 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Brother Mike Drinks the Kool Aid
Category: OpenSource
My blogging brother Mike Dunford steps in to save poor old Apple Corporation from me and a few others who consider building corporate ads into an operating system to be evil. He's wrong, I'm right, but if you must go read his post and decide...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:16 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
How to keep your server's hard drive from filling up with log files.
Category: Linux
Log files are good because they log stuff, so you can find out what's been going on and troubleshoot. But they tend to accumulate and can actually fill up your hard drive. Most Linux distros have automatic log file management for common system logs, but...
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Windows 7 will be out tomorrow (Oct 22). I can't wait.
Category: OpenSource
Well, not really. But if you are looking forward to this momentous occasion, have a look at Linux in Exile's pre-release commentary. Here....
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:15 PM • 44 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
BSD 4.6 was just released
Category: OpenSource
You can get a partial list of the changes in the new version here....
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:04 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Happy Birthday OpenOffice.org!
Category: Technology
October 13th was the eigth birthday of the Office Suite OpenOffice.Org. This is an OpenSource office suite that will look familiar to anyone using Microsoft Office, WordPefect Office, etc. It has a word processor (Writer) that does pretty much everything Microsoft Word does, but with...
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The freeDOS guy talks about Free and OpenSource Software
Category: OpenSource
James Hall has a post on Collective Imagination that you will want to read if you are interested in FOSS....
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:23 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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