Ruminations on the Digital Realm

Weird. I have been using Dapper Drake for a few months now with almost complete satisfaction. The Dapper DVD is a cherished disk in my collection. I like the fact that I get gnome, kde and Xfce installed at the same time. It’s for that reason I downloaded the Edgy DVD a few weeks ago.
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I am playing and fooling with Linux from a Windows migrator’s perspective. After years of development Linux distributions should work out of the box for the most common of tasks. Nothing more, nothing less. The new laptop gave rise to another set of experiments and I am sad to say that Sabayon Linux did not [...]

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You have to love the mobile telephone market. Well, at least in the Netherlands. Two years ago I needed to renew my subscription (the old subscription no longer being valid) and the search for a new provider left me with a 25 euro a month subscription, a Nokia 6310 cellphone and an xbox with two [...]

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While life has been moving in the right direction for a long series of months I always kept in mind that things would turn again. It always does and will continue to do so for a time to come. One motivational speaker said that you can expect four serious crises each year and -while I [...]

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I love to write. With the prospect that -maybe- the Ubuntu book may not be published as we expect it to, I look forward to other projects or other forms of publishing.
The OpenSource eLearning project is one channel that I can give more attention to. The texts in Dutch are partly transferred to English and [...]

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