I am thinking of blog consolidating and adding the articles that I digg at digg.com to my main blog at http://nstanosheck.blogger.com — a blog that I have had since early 2003. I gthought it might be best to just keep one blog instead of many on various subjects. I can always use tags to separate things. Thoughts?
The number of Americans who say they are atheist or agnostic, or choose not to identify with a religious tradition is increasing, albeit from a very low base. The most secular Americans are those 30 and younger - 19% of whom do not identify with a religious tradition.
Controversy rages over the Maine middle school that wants to give middle schoolers birth control, but the debate is focused on adolescent sex and the pros and cons of birth control–and that misses the point entirely.
“Have we reached the beginning of the tipping point? I think we may just have.”
Suffering from its exorbitant price point and a dearth of titles, Sony’s PlayStation 3 isn’t exactly the most popular gaming platform on the block. But while the console flounders in the commercial space, the PS3 may be finding a new calling in the realm of science and research.
Here is where to get either the Desktop or Alternate Install CD ISOs for Apple Macintosh G3, G4, and G5 computers, including iBooks and PowerBooks, IBM OpenPower machines, Sun UltraSPARC computers, Intel Itanium and Itanium 2 computers, as well as Sony PlayStation 3 systems. Submitted since it is about impossible to find from the main Ubuntu.com home page.
Giuliani’s foreign policy team is made up of “all the guys who were too nuts or too extreme to make the cut with George W. Bush”.
She asked me a simple question that I didn’t have the answer to, “If Linux is free, and has all these wonderful features and benefits, then why can’t Microsoft [who get's paid] build an operating system with good features, stability, and is usable?”
A technology marketing consultant, who last month published an essay titled “13 Reasons why Linux won’t make it to a desktop near you,” discovers why desktop Linux has thrived despite what he terms its “troubled childhood.”
If Linux is ever to be safe from prosecution, we have to stop this blatant patent trolling today!
This fiery figure is being hailed as Pope John Paul II making an appearance beyond the grave. The image, said by believers to show the Holy Father with his right hand raised in blessing, was spotted during a ceremony in Poland to mark the second anniversary of his death.
Remember the last Ubuntu upgrade? Remember how busy the server’s were? This article explains how to upgrade to Ubuntu 7.10 now, before the download rush on Thursday.
The following is a list of sites that actively block browsers other than Internet Explorer or have some serious problem that prevents the site from being usable in Firefox….Come on people! Its 2007 already, NOT 1997! Get with this century! There is no excuse for these kinds of sites!
According to the Election ‘08 Facebook Application, this is how the vote would break down if all the primary candidates were running.
#1: Barack Obama 25%
#2: Rudy Giuliani 9%
#3: Hillary Clinton 8%
#4: Ron Paul 8%
#5: Fred Thompson 5%
#6: Mitt Romney 4%
#7: John Edwards 3%
#8: Al Gore 2%
#9: John McCain 1%
#10: Dennis Kucinich
“There’s one particular aspect of Gutsy that I think is more important than most, and that is that it allows you to choose your level of freedom. I’d even go as far to say that this is an historic Linux distribution release, because of that.”
The Knights Templar, the medieval Christian military order accused of heresy and sexual misconduct, will soon be partly rehabilitated when the Vatican publishes trial documents it had closely guarded for 700 years.
Linux can boot faster if a PC’s BIOS is replaced by an open BIOS. Among other benefits, open BIOSes can save the time wasted by proprietary BIOS legacy support for MS-DOS and other unnecessary functions.
“Microsoft is playing to win, and it seems to believe the only way to win is if open source loses.”
The world is changing and online applications are becoming more and more popular, whether for e-mail or word processing. The developers behind Bigboard and Gnome’s “online desktop” initiative think it’s time our desktops started catching up. Read on to find an interview with Colin Walters, more information about Bigboard and the online desktop.
Studies done by a prestigious think tank in Silicon Valley have identified the most common behavioral changes in people who have switched to Linux. They were nice enough to share their information with us. According to them, these are the ten most frequent side effects of Linux use with us.
Microsoft’s latest affront to the Linux community is their “STATE GOVERNMENT SAYS LINUX WAS TOO BIG A RISK” campaign, and I’m sick of them ad-spamming Linux related articles with this piece of garbage. The Linux Scorecard blog digs a bit deeper and discusses the claim, and the man who originally made it.
1. Linux is Behind the Times …Wrong
2. Linux is Hard to Use …Wrong
3. Linux isn’t Compatible with Anything ..Wrong
4. Linux isn’t Enterprise Ready / No One Uses Linux …Also wrong
5. Linux isn’t… Well just go read the article already why don’t ya?
