Linux in Exile has a new post on the approach an organization may take in moving to Linux. The post is here, and I recommend reading it.
I have a few comments on JH’s commentary. I won’t quote what he says (you should just go there and look at it), but my responses correspond to his numbering system.
Continue reading Migrating the Enterprise from Windows to Linux
This is a chart showing a whole bunch of different computer hardware bits and pieces, for reference. Click to embiggen.
From here.
Apple® today unveiled a completely redesigned Mac® mini, featuring up to twice the graphics performance, a new HDMI port and a new SD card slot, all in an amazingly compact aluminum enclosure. Mac mini is the world’s most energy efficient desktop and starting at $699, is the most affordable way to enjoy Mac OS® X, iLife® or Mac OS X Snow Leopard® Server.
My birthday is this month.
Oh, did I say that out loud?
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 along nicely and that may fill in this niche.
But, when I went to look at the web site to find out more about it, I quickly discovered that there are two things wrong with the project that I’d like to suggest that they fix.
Continue reading Ubuntusci: Nice idea but you may be doing it rong
Cyberwar is a fiction, but tech cults are not.
Sometimes these cults are inspired by elegant lines of code. Other times it’s dedication to an ideal. Some are looking to transform the way software is made. Others hope to transform humanity itself. And some just want to argue about it all — endlessly and at great length.
You are certainly familiar with Dublin Wellington Boots – Size 9 Green
And there will be no more phone books in Canada.
Have you ever bought a cell phone at one of those kiosks, or in a storefront for the carrier? Actually, if you are in the US I should ask “Have you ever NOT bought a cell phone in such a place?” (In at least some other countries they don’t make the process so religious and obnoxious. You just go into Woolworth’s or something and get your phone.)
Anyway, I’m looking forward to the prospect of getting my next cell phone at Amazon.com.
According to the site, the main objective is to make buying/upgrading/etc “easier.”
The service appears to handle at least three carriers including Verizon (good for me, because that’s the one that works at the cabin).
I can get a Motorola Droid for about 20 bucks with a new account, but it goes up to 130 bucks if I admit I already have a phone. Or, if I just keep everything I have the same but replace my current phone with the Droid, it will only cost me .. 530 dollars!
Someday, there will be a revolution.
And what can you really do with them?
Continue reading How much does a USB stick cost these days?
Check out this meta app. It runs fully functional in an iPad (I’m told), and is a super fancy reference library for the iPhone OS.
It is a web app that you can see on any web browser but, when it senses that it is on an iPad, shifts into super-duper mode.
Here’s the links you need to pursue this technology:
The app on your web browser
Daring Fireball page
Dominion of the Bored page
WebMage
Continue reading The Latest Ravirn Book, SpellCrash, Materializes Today: Meet the Author Tonight
Michele Bachmann might be the stupidest person who can still breathe.
Continue reading Michele Bachmann should shut up about a topic she knows nothing about
Wouldn’t that be great? Hey, there’s an Ubuntu Christian Edition, an Ubuntu Muslim Edition, and another Ubuntu Christian Edition. Why not an Atheistubuntu? Or a Skeptibuntu? or, more usefully, I would think, Sciencebunutu with Atheistic tendencies?
(And for those of you who like to cross certain boundaries there could be a Science Fiction Edition. Called, of course ….
Continue reading Introducing … Ubuntu Science Edition…
Well, maybe more like tidbits than rants. This is all Linux or ani-Windows stuff, so everyone else you get the clam-hand*.
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UPDATE: GO HERE.
UPDATE UPDATE: I no longer have that file, because it is not the most current one. However, people who want to read their Kindle books on their Linux machine need only to use the browser-based Kindle Cloud Reader. It’s pretty nice.
There is a Kindle reader application for the PC (and the Mac and the iPod touch). But not Linux. Which makes us sad because without Linux, your Kindle wouldn’t even turn on.
But despite this deeply insulting unforgivable slight by Steve Bozo or whatever his name is, diligent supergeeks have solved this problem temporarily. The problem is, as usual, the Intertubes are full of people who know diddley squat but don’t seem to understand that, so you will find ample instructions to make the Kindle for PC work on your Linux computer, and you will have very little success.
Unless you know two secrets that I know.
Continue reading How To Actually Get the Kindle Reader To Work on your Linux Desktop (UPDATED)
Randall Hyde’s book is now out in it’s second edition.
Continue reading High Level Assembly Language Programming Book