Category Archives: Open Source

My New Toy

Posted on Wednesday, May 4, 2011 by Keith

So for a few years now, I’ve been threatening to buy a cheep PC and install Ubuntu on it, just to see what Linux is all about and if it really holds up to the various shiny OSs that Apple … Continue reading →

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The Lives of Perfect Creatures

Posted on Tuesday, August 25, 2009 by Keith

At long last and after much delay, my second movel, The Lives of Perfect Creatures, is available! It’s taken two and a half years of hard work to put this together and I couldn’t be prouder of how the book … Continue reading →

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The Cutting Edge of Respectable

Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2009 by Keith

POD self-publishing has had a bit of a spotty reputation, what with crappy production values in the early days and most of the content proving Sturgeon’s Law pretty handily. A lot has changed in the last few years though, most … Continue reading →

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Writing Software

Posted on Sunday, October 19, 2008 by Keith

I’ve been having problems finding a good, reliable open source word processing program. MS Office is a bloated piece of crap, so naturally it’s the industry standard, even if you have to rejigger the preferences as it was not intended … Continue reading →

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Features, Bugs Whatever- Just Give Us Your Money

Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 by Keith

Fortune Magazine: Free software is great, and corporate America [And real people] loves it. It’s often high-quality stuff that can be downloaded free off the Internet and then copied at will. It’s versatile – it can be customized to perform … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu to the Rescue

Posted on Saturday, May 12, 2007 by Keith

For those who haven’t seen it yet, Jessamyn at Librarian.net has a video of her installing Ubuntu Linux onto three computers at a small library. This comes fast on the news from last week that Dell will be offering Ubuntu … Continue reading →

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Laying Hands On Your Hard Drive

Posted on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 by Keith

Have you ever wondered if there were a way to completely restrict what your computer does (I mean besides using anything by Microsoft)? Ever wanted to have some Jesus on your desktop? The Pope in your RAM? Well, now you … Continue reading →

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