I promise this will be the last post on linux/iTunes/DAAP. I ended up buying the Roku SoundBridge on Saturday. More details can be found in this flickr photoset. I'd just like to point out that this quest for a networked ...
I have been thinking about moving my subscriptions to a web-based aggregator, but I'm too cheap to join FeedLounge and too impatient for Bloglines. I poked around a bit and found three host-it-yourself web-based aggregators that can give me what I'm after: speed....
I am pleased to have recently discovered a couple of "social music" sites: last.fm and musicmobs. Both sites track your listening habits via your computer's media player. In the case of last.fm this is done with ...
It may be so bright we'll have to wear shades. Yesterday I attended the first face-to-face training session for Ohio Learning Network's OSPilot. OLN has teamed up with The Longsight Group to provide hosting, training, and support for some open source apps: Sakai, Moodle, ...
TheOpenCD has released version 3.0, which includes a live CD based on Ubuntu linux. If you are not familiar with live CD's, they allow you to test drive an operating system without touching your hard drive--just put in the CD, reboot, and play with a new OS. When ...
If you're curious about the Sakai collaboration and learning environment (CLE) project, you can download a demo that is mostly functional. I got it running here on OSX in no time at all. The only tricky thing for me was that I've never run a java app on OSX ...
I was listening to the radio Monday and caught a new segment on NPR, This I Believe, a resurrected Edward R. Murrow program. I was particularly impressed with Murrow's introduction to the show back in 1951: We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of ...
This Wired story claims that now that Internet Explorer is losing market share, advertising folks and spyware authors will start targeting alternative browsers like Mozilla/Firefox. This will be a great test of the debate over whether Free Software apps are more secure due to design or due to the ...
I have dominion over a handful of laptops that faculty can check out of the IDEA Center. After MIS puts the base image on the laptop (operating system, Novell stuff, MS Office) they hand it over to me to add whatever I want. Then MIS captures the image and pushes ...
Unfortunately I've been working on a laptop for the last several months and it has started taking it's toll on my body (RSI). So, I wanted to set something up that would let me work on any computer here in the lab, move files to my personal home directory ...
This post popped up in my aggregator and caused me some turmoil because I neither agree nor disagree with the premise that free software is not user friendly. Why do I say that? I think that what we tend to view as "good usability" depends on what we're used to. ...
