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Category: Technology
Good news: The next version of Internet Explorer will only run on Windows 7. That should be the end of Internet Explorer. Bad News: Google Video is done with. It will stop existing on April 29th. Well, I never used it so I don't really...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:12 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Linux
Grandma Embedded Linux, aka Grannybuntu: The next big thing in desktop technology, or just another fanboy pipe dream? Well, who cares; As long as it has pipes, it's cool.
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:31 PM • 69 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Command Line Interface (CLI)
I wrote earlier of the very useful command line utility called gcalcli (short for GoogleCALendarCommandLineInterface). Click here to read that post. One of the options is called "agenda" which spits out, by default, the next five days of calendar entries. If you would prefer a...
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:08 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Command Line Interface (CLI)
Computer-based calendars are very useful, and the Google Calendar is probably one of the more widely used personal calendars other than scheduling programs such as MS Outlook and Groupwise (both of which are broken). But, webby gooey applications can be rather bothersome because they tend...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:05 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Linux
The command line is a great place to get weather information. Here, I discuss one cli-app for current conditions and forecasts, in the larger context of why you would ever want to use the command line anyway....
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:03 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Linux
This is the first in a series about using the "command line" in Linux. It is also about knowing when to use a gui instead. But before going into any of that we need to understand what is meant by a "command line" application. You'll...
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:54 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Technology
he Linux market share continues to flatline. Here's a piece on why. My explanation? Same as for a lot of things: People are morons, by and large. The article linked to mentions very good reasons that Linux should indeed not be adopted by others....
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:36 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Technology
Item 1: Linux has perfectly good fonts these days, and they are getting better. Patents held by Apple Corporation did not allow basic technology (the Bytecode Interpreter)to be implemented in Linux fonts (without paying). FreeType (the Linux font system) worked around this and things were...
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:27 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Linux
I like the idea of an edition of Ubuntu for scientists. I like the idea so much that I wrote a blog post about it a while back. So I was very pleased to see that there is a project called Ubuntusci that is moving...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:00 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: OpenSource
Possibly. Quite possibly: Diaspora: Personally Controlled, Do-It-All, Distributed Open-Source Social Network from daniel grippi on Vimeo. Hat tip: Ronja Addams-Moring...
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:27 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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