Ruminations on the Digital Realm

Between one refresh and the next Google decided to alter my iGoogle page. Fortunately it came with some explanation. The tabs on the top have been replaced by a navigation bar on the right. According to the information page, reading the news and chatting with your friends had a visual makeover as well. Some newsfeeds [...]

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MIT Open Courseware provides “A Gentle Introduction to Programming Using Python“. The phrase “gentle introduction” has it’s own connotations, but then I noticed the following sentence:
This course will provide a gentle introduction to programming using Python™ for highly motivated students with little or no prior experience in programming computers.

“Highly motivated students”…. I read that as:
It’s [...]

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An interesting article about Red Hat’s strategic view on the Linux desktop market. Some highlights:

the Linux desktop market is about small pennies, whereas the Linux server market is about big bucks,
Red Hat focuses on making it’s Red Hat Enterprise Linux business desktop friendly, channeling the novelties to the free Fedora desktop;
Fortune 500 companies want to [...]

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I like to work with free and open source software, both at home and at the workplace. And I’d like to have my personal e-mail accounts and fattened browsers close at hand to roam the digital realm from whatever computer there is at hand. John Haller’s Portable Applications have been the package of choice [...]

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Tony Mobily, the editor in chief of Free Software Magazine, has coined a new term for use in the blogosphere: Groklawed. The Groklaw Effect is what will happen to you if you play dirty against a well established internet community. A mention of suspected foul play will focus the attention of thousands upon your organization [...]

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