Feb 06, 2010 9:59pm GMT
Recently there has been a discussion on the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) mailing list about why LPI does not publish its own training materials to help students prepare for their tests. I started to answer in the mailing list, but instead I decided to answer here. LPI, of course, is a non-profit organization that creates certification exams for Linux systems administrators. It is distr... more »
Free Software In Action: Please donate to Inveneo's work in HaitiJan 29, 2010 7:45pm GMT
Four or five years ago I learned of Inveneo, a company that was trying to bring low-cost and low-power usage computers to the developing world. They were some of the first to use Asterisk to set up a PBX for a village and (of course) the recognized the benefits of other Free Software in what they did. They also recognized the issues of reducing power consumption in computers so you reduce the... more »
Jobs For The JoblessJan 27, 2010 9:43pm GMT
No, even though today is the day that the wonder-child of Apple shows off his latest marketing blitz, this blog is not about Steve Jobs and his DRM-laden tablet. Instead we are going to travel thousands of miles to the south-east and visit a man in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Marcelo Balisteri, of who most people do not know. Marcelo was born in the favela, the Brazilian term for "slum&qu... more »
Mr. Obama, Please Tear Down This Wall!Jan 26, 2010 8:33pm GMT
Only three days after posting my blog regarding the plight of Google's Chinese customers and how their data is now at the whims of a US-based company and its conflict with the Chinese government, I read about the issues of SourceForge.net and the U.S. State Department's Export lists and how the data stored in a US-based company, sometimes created by non-U.S. based citizens, is now being contro... more »
Careful As She Goes, Captain!Jan 23, 2010 2:45pm GMT
One of the big stories this month has been the attempts of crackers to break into email accounts being held by Google and other companies. There have been a lot of accusations flying back and forth, with many people commenting on the security of web browsers and whether or not Google should pull out of China or continue to do the censoring required by the Chinese government. I am not going t... more »
Android UnleashedJan 06, 2010 11:19pm GMT
There has been a lot of discussion about HTC's Nexus One, also known as "The Google Phone". The discussions back and forth about whether it is an "iPhone Killer" are often heated, with issues of whether or not this feature or that feature is better than the iPhone. One feature that has not been discussed very much by the press is the fact that the "Google Phone"... more »
Penguin AwarenessJan 04, 2010 4:35pm GMT
Tux lights them off! Today Cesar Brod, a friend of mine from Brazil, sent me a picture of some fireworks he saw on New Year's Day that had a picture of our favorite penguin on them. It was timely, since it was a year ago today that I wrote another blog entry about Tux and "Penguin Awareness Day" (January 20th) and "World Penguin Day" (April 25th), so today I though... more »
