It would be useful to inventory the “stuff” that I use. I’d like to have a backup of the distribution. My thought is that this summer I’d liek to rebuild my luggable.
Itemizing the free tools that I like
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
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Learn to program with a free tutorial and a free interpreter
Sunday, February 19, 2006http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/index.htm
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
Learning with Python
by Allen B. Downey, Jeffrey Elkner and Chris Meyers
http://www.python.org/download/
A (free) Python interpreter
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Moodle – free courseware management system
Sunday, February 19, 2006This piqued my interest. How about a “course” for turkeys?
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Each night, something happens on the net connection
Sunday, February 19, 2006It recycles my yim. Whatelse does it do? Why?
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Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) is a winner!
Friday, February 17, 2006Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) is a winner!
http://www.technologyrescue.com/welcome.html
Obsolete computers anchored by a Linux server is a cost effective winner.
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Asterix article makes me cautious about experiment
Friday, February 17, 2006http://mobile.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/02/09/1727256&from=rss
Quote:
Asterisk is free software that lets you create a fully functional, easily customizable, private branch exchange (PBX). Businesses like Asterisk because they can save money by using it, and because it is open source, they can add functionality to it easily and inexpensively. Asterisk is also becoming popular with home office users — so much so that it spawned a new project called Asterisk@Home, which released its 1.0 version last year. Now there’s even a version of Asterisk that runs on OpenWrt, a Linux distribution designed to run on your wireless router (see “OpenWrt nears prime time”). I found it to be worthwhile, but I wouldn’t depend on it for my home office.
Now that doesn’t inspire confidence. I’m not that much of a hero to risk failure. Additionally, I really want Asterix for the great PBX features. Maybe I need to go for a big implementation of Asterix on a spare box.
Hmmm?!?!
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ALLWAYSYNC trial ends; deleted
Friday, February 17, 2006Well, despite the advertisement that says “free for personal use”, I find that there is an interesting definition of “personal” use. My loveable luggable needs to disgourge its secrets each night to my home desktop via the wireless lan. Being the typical lazy guy, and after missing a few files, I thought let me consider a free utility for this duty. Google popped AllWaySync, so I looked at it first. It appeared to work ok. Although it did arm wrestle with outlook over who culd lock the pst file. It’s huge. And, it was the reason, I really got religion about backups when I had to spend the better part of a day kowtowing to redmond and reinputting all my email settings manually into LookOut when it barfed them into the bit bucket. I’m not sure I really ever really recovered from that episode. It convinces me more to leave the microsoft fold when vista comes along. Any way, allwaysync has a limit to the number of files and number of bytes you use for free. It says somehting nasty like you’re not a personal user. I am too. So off to the bit bucket with it and one to Karen’s Replicator.
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(web, word, or excel) 2 PDF (for free)
Thursday, February 16, 2006
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TECHNOLOGY: Old Software “Serious Creativity”
Wednesday, February 15, 2006Interesting problem. Some old software from the WIN95 days won’t install on XP. I’ve been reinstalling it as I move from machine to machine. It has in the past. Why not now? It is particualarly agravating when I spend my scarce person technology dollars on something and it ages out. I can understand hardware failure, but software? Now I am sure they will sell me a replacement for 75$ but why should I. I bought it. Whatever it was! Last time I got screwed like this was KeeBoo. Oh well live and learn. BTW I sent them an email. Let’s see what happens.
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A dumb little distraction
Wednesday, February 15, 2006http://www.rnmap.com/smack-the-penguin.php
Sometimes you just feel like whacking something!
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