Ruminations on the Digital Realm


Archive for February, 2008

Journalist, columnist or activist?

Apparently it isn’t always that easy to tell the difference between a journalist, a columnist or an activist. At least, it is the conclusion I need to draw after receiving an email from a city alderman (Dutch: wethouder) from a midsize town in the Netherland. He refuses to answer questions about some IT-decisions. He considers [...]

Friday, February 29th, 2008

PCLinuxOS Day 12 - Attempting to triple boot my laptop

Last friday my car broke down. This in itself has nothing to do with the series about PCLinuxOS, but it did leave me with a couple of unplanned spare hours. A perfect opportunity to change the operating systems on my laptop. I wanted to upgrade Ubuntu to 7.10, to install Sabayon Linux and to install [...]

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

Open source companies need to work on interoperability

Dominic Sartorio of the Open Solutions Alliance is pointing out one of the weak points in open source solutions: the degree of interoperability and cooperation between applications. According to Dominic Microsoft has a great advantage in this field with a ton of developers working to make sure all Microsoft’s offerings can cooperate and communicate with [...]

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Where is the PCLINUXOS series?

Things have been so busy in the last couple of weeks that I didn’t have the time to sit down and continue writing about PCLinuxOS.
I started writing for a Dutch open source newssite, Livre. It’s fun to check out what is happening in the world of open source, open standards, open content, Linux and [...]

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008