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Tag: Linux

  • Why Ubuntu is Important for Me…

    So Jono Bacon, Ubuntu community leader (and mister communitizing the community using community tools 😀 )  asks why Ubuntu is important to me.  In my case this would be why is Kubuntu important to me, but then we will be arguing over semantics. Yes, the freedom Ubuntu brings into my life is one reason why…

  • The First Brampton BLUG Meeting Tomorrow!

    Eugene and I decided to start up a Brampton BSD-Linux User Group (BBLUG!).  This will hopefully grow into a community of open source enthusiasts in the Brampton and Mississauga region.  While we are competing in theory with the folks at GTALUG and WGTALUG, this is more of bring something to Brampton.  I know there is…

  • Open Source Gamer Goes to Ontario Linux Fest 2008

    Last, last weekend (October 25) I attended my first conference, Ontario Linux Fest 2008. And what an awesome event it was! The event turned out be a somewhat low key event. Not a huge number of exhibitor booths, but the Eclipse, Fedora, FOSSology, FSF, OpenStreetMap and Drupal people had setup shop there. The event featured…

  • Football (Soccer) Madness – A Quickie Update

    Ok, I’m just gonna post a quick update as part of my resolution, to post daily. I reckon that my life is not as half boring as I make it out to be… I surprised my system admin at work that my N810, is in fact a Linux device. It is true that there isn’t…

  • Waiting for Maemo

    Last Thursday I got the chance to play with a Nokia N810 at the TigerDirect store in Mississauga. A pretty nifty device, but the price was not so nifty. So I ordered one via the Web. And hopefully it’ll arrive sometime today. Yay! My initial review (after using for a few minutes) is that the…

  • I’m Hating it!

    Humanity has a love-hate relationship with technology. Geeks like to take it to the extreme. Take the recent hub-bub in the blogosphere about the aptly named: Linux Hater’s Blog. In that blog, the anonymous blogger (or bloggers) rants about how BAD Linux is. Its entertaining and educational! Entertaining because rants and rabble-raising is fun… in…

  • Spreading Linux as a Scientific Endeavour

    I just read Vlad Dolezal’s blog entry about why Linux doesn’t spread. The debate about the reasons why people don’t adopt Linux and a free open source desktop, has gone on for years. Vlad just dredged up the old its free therefore not useful argument. An easy counterexample are what mobile providers: get a free…

  • Menacing Migraines Ahead

    Scientist should start classifying migraines in scale based on the pain inflicted upon an individual. Perhaps they should count number of perceived neuron deaths. At least I think they should. I rate mine a 4 out of 5. But my headaches can not be as severe as the ones in Redmond. Since everyone (and their…

  • The Masses Don’t Exist

    Some food for thought: If Linux/open source is so great why hasn’t it reached the mass market? It’s an interesting question, especially for someone like myself who wants the open source/software libre movement to succeed both socially and economically. This question should interest even people who don’t really care about software or programming. Because if…

  • KDE & Linux: An Explanation for the Uninitiated

    One of my friends after reading my last blog piece commented: “English please.” So here is the English summary translation of my last blog post: The short explanation would be: I occasionally review new Linux software. KDE is a window manager for Linux. And the new KDE4 rocks my world! Long explanation without too much…