Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MAY 21, 2007
More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement open source software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. But here’s Ubuntu week 1, not edited or smoothed out. Because I’ve decided that no matter what, I’m not going back.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MARCH 14, 2011
I’ve mentioned this before, and I do think the conventional wisdom is that open source software (which includes OpenOffice.org, MySQL and Java) will not flourish at Oracle. It makes sense – Oracle has never had a culture of fostering open source software, and it seems unlikely to obtain one.
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JUNE 2, 2011
Although I have only seen the Blue Screen of Death once in my year of Windows 7 use, there are still inexplicable slow-downs, crashes, and weird problems. And it takes FOREVER to boot, even with Soluto. Internet Explorer.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 11, 2010
I’m actually quite happy – I can run both Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux on my laptop, and I like Android (and my Droid 2 phone) a lot. That’s not a problem I’ve been facing anymore. And, of course, using Ubuntu on the desktop is fun. Great web development environment, of course.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 9, 2007
August 9, 2007 It’s been 7 weeks of using Ubuntu 7.04 (better known as Feisty Fawn) as my primary desktop. I have no problem getting just about all of my work done using Ubuntu. I’m looking forward to Gutsy Gibbon, Ubuntu 7.10 I figured it was time to give my final assessment. I love apt-get/aptitude.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MARCH 9, 2008
In Kubuntu, the distribution of Ubuntu I had installed, the WPA-enabled Network Manager isn’t installed by default (or at least it seemed not to have been installed when I did it – could have been my fault.) After spending close to five hours on the X windows/driver problem I vented about last week. I gave up.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JUNE 24, 2008
I have had varied problems , from issues of software integration, video problems, wireless issues … The list is getting very long. On the Windows side the hardware manufacturers make proprietary drivers for Windows, and very few make drivers for Linux, or open source their drivers so that Linux developers can use them.
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