Archive for January, 2003
Friday, January 24th, 2003
A very interesting article on washingtonpost.com outlines how the Extremadura region of Spain is converting from Windows to Linux.. It's a government sponsored campaign with the goal of converting more than 100,000 desktops in the next year.
In Extremadura, the regional government paid a local company $180,000 to cobble together a ...
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Thursday, January 23rd, 2003
I've spent most of this week - long hours, in fact - configuring a telescope at work for testing. I'd hoped to begin sky testing tonight. But last night, the wind chills were in the -30 F range. Accuweather said the same would hold true for tonight, as well. I ...
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Wednesday, January 22nd, 2003
I've been up to my neck in work the past week. We're preparing a telescope for delivery to the Virgin Islands in February. At present, the indoor testing schedule is seven days a week, nearly 24 hours a day. Couple that with Penguin Shell hours, and I've put in nearly ...
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Monday, January 13th, 2003
It says here that Linux is challenging Windows for the desktop. Says so on all seven of my machines, too.
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Sunday, January 12th, 2003
As far as I can tell, the install recovered nicely. I have a working KDE desktop that I'm configuraing now. Actually, I killed the install using Ctrl+C, shut down, and picked it back up several times when the CD-ROM refused to read. When everything appeared to have installed, I ran ...
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Sunday, January 12th, 2003
Next up in the Libranet is root setup. Again, the text-based screens for setting up the root user are very easy to use. Actually, they're quicker and easier than a GUI tool for the same task. Root setup is quickly followed by setup of the normal user, and we're off ...
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Sunday, January 12th, 2003
I'm running a Libranet install this afternoon, in preparation for review in Penguin Shell starting Wednesday. I've had a bit of recurring trouble with the CD-ROM drive on Cerebrum this afternoon, but have managed to finally get to a boot screen for the install.
Libranet is based on Debian. I've reviewed ...
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Saturday, January 11th, 2003
This looks promising. It's the most sweeping commutation of dealth penalty sentences since the US Supreme Court overturned the death penalty in 1972.
Given the Illinois record on death penalty convictions, Governor Ryan's moratorium was a smart and compassionate move. In the wake of the moratorium, even more problems with Illinois' ...
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Friday, January 10th, 2003
If this doesn't scare you, you've already expired. It's a graphic recently pulled from the Total Information Awareness site. A representation of what TIA perceives its own mission to be, it's a frightening insight into the data this group intends to gather.
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Thursday, January 9th, 2003
Just reading an interesting piece here about Mandrake. It paints the recent financial woes of Mandrake as a function of relatively little exposure in the US. In fact, it cites SuSE as being the second most popular Linux distribution in the US. This appears to represent further slippage for Mandrake ...
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