Aug 21, 2008
Asking the wrong questions
Every so often, someone will ask me 'is Linux ready for the desktop?'. The implication of this is that there is some consensus that whilst GNU/Linux has established credentials in the server market, it isn't suitable for desktop use.
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Aug 17, 2008
Fixing *nix blunders (Pt 1)
Yesterday, I made one of those classic command-line blunders that anyone with root access to a *nix shell makes from time-to-time. Basically, instead of doing:
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Aug 11, 2008
Not just a jazzer!
I don't usually watch the BBC proms, but this evening I was at a loose end looking after my 3 month old son, and it just happened to be the most interesting thing on the television. I had no idea about the piece being performed other than its composer was also playing the piano part.
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May 25, 2008
OKFN visualisation workshop
I'm writing this from the train journey back from the Open Knowledge Foundation's first visualisation workshop held at Trampoline System's offices in The Foundry, London.
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Apr 23, 2008
Decentralisation and the wisdom of crowds
I've recently been reading The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki. It's an interesting book, and despite many America-centric examples the author uses (which I quickly started to skim over),I recommend it to anyone who's interested in the notion of 'crowd' intelligence. As a user and writer of Free Software, I was particularly keen to read the chapter on decentralisation, which uses GNU/Linux as an example of where decentralisation has been successful. On this subject Surowiecki writes:
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