Posts Tagged ‘ Linux ’

Planet Plug goes live!

After much tweaking and messing around, Planet Plug has finally gone live! It doesn’t have many active subscriptions right now but that should change as more people sign up. If you’re a member of the Philadelphia Linux community, you should get onto the #plug IRC channel on irc.freenode.net and ask to have your feed added. [ READ MORE ]

Open Source in Schools

This afternoon I read a really thoughtful paper about Free/Open Source Software in schools published in the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology. As an aside, the CJLT has a really solid collection of papers and I look forward to paging through them in the coming months. Anyway, this paper, Open Source Software and Schools: [ READ MORE ]

VirtualBox to QEMU

Recently, I had cause to convert a VirtualBox virtual machine to one compatible with QEMU and KVM. A quick search found me multiple methods for converting an image QEMU -> VirtualBox but nothing helping me to go from VirtualBox -> QEMU. After asking on the PLUG mailing list, I got some help and managed to [ READ MORE ]

KDE4: It’s the fourth KDE!

  • January 11th, 2008
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At long last, my waiting is over and I have successfully downloaded and installed (according to directions) KDE 4.0! Hooray. I have a wide range of opinions on this release but overall, I am very pleased. I would share screenshots of me going about my normal day-to-day life but there are already so many screenshot [ READ MORE ]

Monitoring The General Public Virus

  • November 28th, 2007
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On my second day of having a sore throat, it would seem that I have contracted the General Public Virus.  If it is just the common cold, then I should expect to be better in 6-10 days but if it’s something else, then I can expect a different recovery time. In response to my condition, [ READ MORE ]

A Few Good Ideas

  • October 7th, 2007
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I have been keeping a little list of good ideas which are either ideas which I would like to point out or ideas which I would like to see implemented/used more often. It has always been interesting to watch the development of the world around me and from this I have gained an appreciation for [ READ MORE ]

Microsoft and Friends make money on your ignorance

Microsoft and the companies that sell Windows maintenance products make money on your ignorance. I’m sorry, but it’s true. Generally speaking (and for the purposes of this rant), the average computer user most likely fits into one of three categories: Novice users – “Timidius Clickitus” – These are the users who use computers for limited [ READ MORE ]

Strict SELinux: Can’t things be more streamlined?

  • May 16th, 2007
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If you’ve been following along with me, I’ve been doing my best to test out SELinux in it’s various forms. To sum up, I have installed Debian Etch into a virtual machine (VM) along with X and the XFCE4 desktop (due to limited RAM). Immediately following this, I began following the Debain SELinux howtos and [ READ MORE ]

Introducing rbingo

  • May 9th, 2007
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Awhile back, my mother (in her never-ending search for creative educational angles) came up with the idea of playing “Plague Bingo” during the maggid portion of our Passover Seder. Needless to say, it became an instant hit with family and friends. She wrote the first set of boards by hand. While that was fine for [ READ MORE ]

Success and Failure in the VM

  • May 1st, 2007
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Well, I set out to test Zimbra and a Desktop environment in conjunction with SELinux, and I had a few surprises along the way. First, it turns out that the open source edition of Zimbra is a giant, self-contained, beast of a product. Try as I did, I was unable to get it to install [ READ MORE ]

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Jonathan E. Magen is a passionate developer who loves cooking and writing clean code. Star Trek is cool, too. Also, books. Many things are actually really great and Jonathan likes them as well.

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