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Open Sauce, July 2007 It’s just something like three and a half years since this was written, but these things just keep staying as important as ever. I’ll add a few more editorial comments in-line here, but slowly AND surely … Continue reading →

In the beginning, there was ASCII text format, and everything was compatible with everything else. Text still makes sense for many applications: it’s the format used for everything from email and the web to configuration files and source code. Although … Continue reading →

You may have noticed that there is a gap since my last post; sorry about that. What you may not have noticed is that I’m migrating all my blogs into WordPress. It’s really quite great, and I like having much … Continue reading →

Here are some tips, hints, and how-to’s for Linux fans of all stripes. But don’t just read the articles–keep going for even more help and insight from the readers’ comments. Lazy Linux: 10 essential tricks for admins from IBM developerWorks … Continue reading →

The biggest little notebook of this past season is the Asus Eee, which is sort of like the OLPC XO, except it’s a commercial product that you can actually buy in the store (if you can find one). These things … Continue reading →

OK, so I went ahead and switched to Ubuntu. Everyone’s talking about it and all the cool kids are using it, and I’ve wanted to start using it all the time after I tried it out a year or so … Continue reading →

I like to collect stories and articles about how people (and businesses) go about switching to Linux (or open source software). Up to now, my collection is sitting in the digitalequivalent of boxes, folders, and piles that sit around my … Continue reading →

Another place holder for a new article/page: Security is a huge new topic, especially (IMO) in terms of things like encrypting personal emails. Because that would help a lot of people who get screwed over by filters and snoops (like … Continue reading →

After maybe as long as 10 years without a store bought computer, I finally took the plunge and picked up a cheap little PC from Circuit City. With Windows Vista, of course. It’s already installed, so it shouldn’t be any … Continue reading →

If you don’t mind throwing down a thousand bucks or so every few years for a new computer to run the latest and greatest version of Windows, then you probably don’t care that Linux is beautifully backward compatible. Old versions … Continue reading →