I am looking for a open software technology news sites or periodicals where most of the content is digestible by anyone, and they have to be of high quality. NewsForge does not seem to be.
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Monthly Archives: June 2006
My discomfort is the only discomfort I can relieve
I read with interest Mark Pilgrim’s announcement and reasons for switching from Apple MacOS to the Ubuntu OS (Linux) because he is a leader in the Mozilla community and more generally open source. The responses from the Mac community have been intense as many feel they are losing a leader. John Gruber, in Oranges, summaries the nature of the many of the responses and some of the issues. He presents a balanced view of many of the issues, and continues to try to win Mark back to the Mac. It looks like Mark has shut that door.
My interest in Mark’s switch is mostly because I have long struggled balancing using open technologies and my productivity. Just like Mark, Bart Decrem, Chris Messina, Matt Mullenweg, David Weekly, Asa Dotzer, and almost all other open format and source advocates.
This is a great example of a first world problem. I am so fortunate!
Even with my limited experience and understanding I believe that access to open technology is an essential building block for healing our world. By using Ubuntu OS and other open format and source technologies — although I am much more productive for many of my daily tasks on Windows or Mac — I do a little to make less fortunate people’s problems my own. My discomfort is the only discomfort I can relieve.
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Flocktails brings Microformats to Flock
I worked with Daryl today on getting the Flocktails extension into Flock’s extension catalog. I apologize for my team in not getting this in the catalog for launch of Flock Beta 1 with an extension catalog that supports voting and user submissions. We wanted to.
This is a great extension and will be more useful as Microformats are adopted — they are being adopted with an accelerating rate it seems. I am excited to use an extension that uses the Flock’s topbar. This was reported by Factoryjoe when Flocktails was first made available. It now has a home in Flock’s extension catalog, and microformats are at home on more sites, for example Flickr, Upcoming.org and Yahoo! Local.
Clean hard drive
I replaced the hard drive in my laptop because the old one of 60 GB was full. It was mostly full of vmware images for testing Flock and various build environments of Flock.
The new hard drive is 100 GB.
I like things being structured, and there is something really appealing to a clean hard drive. This one is the most clean I have ever set up for my main computer. I did not create a partition for Microsoft Windows.
I will now go through the sickly enjoyable process of coping my settings from the previous drive and selectively reinstalling software.
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