Does anybody else remember Galeon? Galeon was a very light-weight web browser that appeared in 2000 and which I quickly adopted as my favorite browser. In contrast with the things available to linux at the time – Mozilla and Netscape – this was a dream. It was fast, delivered only […]
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In the last few weeks – and, indeed, years – I am more and more stuck by the fact that physicists are not wide-spread open-source consumers. I’ll give a key example, and then conclude. Microsoft Office. It’s offered for cheap to institutions, especially adademic ones, in order to get people […]
Microblogging, the act of writing just a few words about an observation or a thought, is becoming more popular. In and of itself, I’m not that thrilled about it. In a way, it’s just another cheap, short form of communication. However, most of the reason why I’ve avoided it is […]
Update: we **think** we’ve got our internet/phone problem solved. Over the weekend, we discovered that when Comcast reconnected our phone two weeks ago, they did so only to one jack in our four-phone-jack cottage. This jack was one we never used before, and AT&T thinks the wiring is dicey in […]
For those of you who’ve been interacting with us face-to-face this past week, you know that the server hosting this domain has been experiencing all kinds of trouble. AT&T sent a line tech out on Wednesday to fix it, and for two days all was well. AS of yesterday, the […]
Unlike the Olympics, the global games, and the DNCC, the convention for the party of inclusiveness, the GOP has gone with ustream.tv to distribute live and canned video from the GOPC. I went online tonight and found out immediately that I could watch all the (very limited) events from today’s […]
I found out on Friday that I am not the only one sending letters to the DNC about their choice to shut out the Linux community. A friend of mine told me she also sent a letter, and it sounded like it was a much more pointed statement than mine. […]
I just finished writing a letter to the DNC convention organizers, which I sent by e-mail and which I will also send by mail if I don’t get a fairly personal response (as opposed to some boilerplate). Here is the text: Dear Sir or Madam, I am a registered Democrat […]
I really wanted to go to the DNC website, catch Michelle Obama’s speech, maybe see some of the live video. Alas, the Democrats are not quite the progressives we’ve been led to believe. They seem to have taken a page from the NBC/Microsoft Olympics playbook: Looks like I’m well on […]
I’ve returned from CT. I had a great time, although there was some rough going with my stomach for a few days (on and off). I think I overdid it on the wings and picked up a stomach bug, which my dad also caught (he doesn’t eat hot wings). Still, […]
Firefox 3 is officially released today (get your copy at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/). To top it, Mozilla is going for a Guinness record on the most downloads of a single piece of software in one day. You can pledge to participate in this and then download a copy; you have until about […]
Ever since Skype upgraded its Linux client from the 1.X series to 2.X and introduced new features, plus compliance with the ALSA sound system, nobody has been able to record skype sound for podcasting. I’ve wanted to use Skype for a while exactly for this purpose. Well, problem solved! Some […]