Comments on: People are strange

By: Ikem

Ikem — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:25:56 +0000

I’m a happy Linux Mint LXDE user. :>

By: No Flash? No problem: TinyOgg.com « Motho ke motho ka botho

No Flash? No problem: TinyOgg.com « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:56:00 +0000

[...] it is very cool, and not just to me. leo_rockway mentioned it in a different context about a week ago, and since then I’ve pointed it out to two or three other people, all with [...]

By: Look out Ubuntu, look out Arch: Linux Mint Debian « Motho ke motho ka botho

Look out Ubuntu, look out Arch: Linux Mint Debian « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:50:51 +0000

[...] never was a Linux Mint fan. It won a few points recently in its LXDE rendition by pleasing a neighbor, so in a roundabout way it made me happy [...]

By: leo_rockway

leo_rockway — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:05:59 +0000

The first real app I wrote when learning how to program was to rip the sound track out of YouTube videos. It took me about 30 minutes to have it working (it was lousy, but it worked) and I had never really coded anything before.
The app is now the backend of tinyogg.com (which is pretty used nowadays by free software hacktivists).

Not only did this person pay for something that’s really easy to code, he paid for a service that’s available for free in the aforementioned website.

By: mulenmar

mulenmar — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:02:39 +0000

Scratch that part about using your quote — rereading the GFDL and commentaries about it makes it seem that the GNU Free Documentation License and even the Creative Commons Attribution license are incompatible. And “fair use” is something I’m antsy enough on, I’m not crossing a GNU license.

By: keithpeter

keithpeter — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:34:15 +0000

“After that I suggested he check their web site and look a little at the explanation of the product, in his native language, and the happy ending to the story is that we now have OpenOffice.org installed for everyone to use.”

IN educational institutions an open source Web application called Moodle has a wide following as a ‘virtual learning environment’, essentially a way for teachers to make secure web sites for specific student groups. The teachers can administer their course sites via their web browser.

In the early days, I had so many meetings trying to explain why there was no cost for downloading Moodle… The Microsoft corporate mind set takes some breaking down, and I swear it gets worse as the manager has more responsibility for IT.

PS: Ubuntustudio installs a light ish Gnome, runs in about half the ram of regular Ubuntu. I just install it and don’t select any of the media production package sets, and I get a ‘bare’ Gnome with the applets (Gedit, synaptic, brasero, the config screens, plus Firefox), so my own choice of media player, office suite, e-mail &c.

By: mulenmar

mulenmar — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:13:19 +0000

“Ubuntu was torpid, Xubuntu was sluggish, Arch was a lightning bolt that required too much configuration on my part.”

This single quote is enough to finally put me over the edge and create a page of Quotes on my blog — it sums up my perspective of those three perfectly.

As for the poor, misguided soul who bought one of Steve Job’s fashion accessories, you might want to check http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=691635 and similar threads. That one is from 2008, but she/he might be able to just start up a Windows XP virtual machine for when iTunes is truly vital. (Never, unless you need to restore to stock config).