Shades of gray
Ever since the news of LibLime's enterprise version of Koha and whether or not their actions consisted a fork of the code, I've been thinking about how black and white…
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Technology education and the “real world”
I just love that feeling of serendipity when I find that people are thinking about the same things I am at the same time. Karin Dalziel made an impassioned case…
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Satisfaction with free/open source software survey
I know I'm late in posting this, but Brenda Chawner (a long-time expert on library open source software in New Zealand) has developed a survey for her PhD research that…
SOPAC 2.0 at Darien Public Library
Run, don't walk to check out the Darien Public Library's awesome new Drupal-based website along with the John Blyberg-designed new-and-improved SOPAC 2.0. I, for one, am totally impressed with the…
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A personal ad for open source project help
For several years, I have used Feed2JS. It's a great tool that makes it easy to display an RSS feed on any web page and to style the content to…
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Giving and Taking
Oh Meredith, why can't you just write a nice, short, concise post? I really don't know what happens! I start writing and my fingers just seem to take over. This…
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DrupalEd is released
When we taught Five Weeks to a Social Library, we used Drupal and kind of had to hack it to make it work as a course management system. Too bad…
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Lead, follow or get out of the way
I always tease Roy Tennant about how so many geek girls (me included) -- and probably geek boys too -- are totally crushing on him. He doesn't really "get it".…
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Open source alternatives!
When I was talking to my dad and he told me that he had a copy of Adobe Acrobat's PDF Writer, I realized that not everyone is up on the…
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Firefox is on fire!!!
I was very excited to hear, via Research Buzz, that Firefox has been downloaded more than 25 million times! That's fabulous! Hopefully we'll see it replacing Internet Explorer more and…
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The community in computing
The Linux Librarian has a great post on why open source and blogging are so great: This is why open source works. From my comments, from yesterday, from James Robertson:…
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OSS Patent Search
For those interested in developing open source software based on the patents offered for free by IBM and others, PatentCafe has come out with OSS Patent Search Engine, a natural…
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Open source in Brazil
NPR this morning had a great story about how Brazil is switching 300,000 government computers from Windows to Linux. Not only are they switching to Linux, but they are dropping…
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Changing corporate image with open source
In light of IBM's offer to allow use of 500 of their software patents for open source applications, Sun is now freely offering 1600 of its own patents for open…
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A new corporate approach to intellectual property
IBM is making 500 of its patents available for free to people doing open source projects. Rock on! From the New York Times: I.B.M. executives say the company's new approach…
Exhuming McCarthy
Bill Gates recently sat down with CNET for an interview (which begins with the frightening teaser "Bill Gates is coming to your living room, whether you like it or not").…
Open Access
I guess this is the day to post intros! Peter Suber, at Open Access News, has published a very concise introduction to the concept of open access. A Very Brief…
Where Google leads…
Here is an interesting article I found via Resource Shelf. The Open Archive Initiative (OAI) and Google Scholar by Nick Luft looks at one positive effect Google (and specifically Google…
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Linux more secure? Look at the statistics.
According to Wired, a four-year study of the 2.6 Linux production kernel by Stanford University researchers has determined that there are 985 bugs in the 5.7 million lines of code.…
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Linux vulnerabilities? What vulnerabilities?
I know we always hear about how superior Linux is to Windows in terms of security, but most things I read primarily talk about what is wrong with Microsoft and…
