2008-10-27

Boycott Novell - Champion of freedom or den of paranoia?

Observations about Boycott Novell:

http://www.linux.com/feature/151215

Some Productive Ubuntu Kung Fu

Book Excerpt: http://lifehacker.com/5067996/some-productive-ubuntu-kung-fu

Also in comments:

  • "a good desktop blog editor" - suggestions:

    • OpenOffice.org with the Sun Weblog Publisher extension
    • ScribeFire extension for Firefox

  • "a tip to make gnome fonts look *not* like that" - suggestion:

    • Open a terminal window and type sudo dpkg-reconfigure fonts-fontconfig Then choose the Native option in the menu, and log out and back in again.

  • "Is there an app for the Mac that is like gnome-blog?" - suggestion:

  • "What about https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GnomeDo/Plugins ?"

MIT team designs bio-suit

News from July 2007:

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/biosuit-0716.html

2008-10-19

DisplayPort versus HDMI

http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/09/19/displayport-and-hdmi-square-off-in-uber-thorough-comparison/

An astonishingly detailed report at EDN pits the two digital-display-interface standards against one another in an attempt to discover whether we really, truly need two ways to plug things in:

http://www.edn.com/article/CA6594089.html

There's also a comparison of main features of different standards.
Included here as a screenshot: