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Here’s a good discussion about how eVoting should be done. Of particular interest, is the case made for using an open source software for the electronic voting machines. With closed-source, proprietary software a company has the perfect cover to pull some cloak-and-dagger stuff (e.g., insert a backdoor program that allows for the creator to manually [...]

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Last week I wrote about the Open Office 3.0 note feature. If you have students submit papers electronically - OpenOffice 3.0 is a big improvement - because you can type notes and comments that appear in colored bubbles in the margins. The problem is that in OpenOffice 3.0 these comment bubbles appear outside the printable [...]

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I had three hits today on my website from somebody googling “What Plargiarism is OK?” - Here is your answer…none.

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Here’s the abstract of one of NPR’s Morning Edition stories this morning. Morning Edition, October 16, 2008 · A Nebraska state senator last year filed a lawsuit against God. Ernie Chambers sought an injunction against God because of widespread death and destruction. Judge Marlon Polk has thrown out the lawsuit. He says there’s no way [...]

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Here’s a reason for academics to be interested in OpenOffice 3.0 - It has a much improved notes feature. Recent version of MS Word enables users to include notes in the margins. I rely on that feature a lot to write up comments on papers from my colleagues or my students. MS Word always had [...]

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There were two parts of the debate tonight where I honestly can’t figure out what McCain was thinking. I don’t mean that in a derogatory way. I’m saying that, as a matter of fact, I do not know what was going on in McCain’s head - and I’m genuinely curious to find out. Does McCain [...]

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I’ve been going on and on about how wonderful I think the open source movement is, but not everyone is so enthusiastic. One of the biggest obstacles to the open source movement is whether or not there is a viable open source business model - How can you make money on software if you’re giving [...]

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So, three things have happened that should have open source software enthusiasts excited. The new Ubuntu is coming out soon (OK, that’s not news - but I had to mention it) OpenOffice 3.0 was released yesterday. It was so popular the website crashed! Check out there website - they’re still running super-downgraded version to control [...]

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Ubuntu’s newest version will be released at the end of October! That will also mark my 6 month of being almost entirely Windows free! I’ve decided to do my part in helping promote Ubuntu by posting their countdown on the blog here. I’m also posting a list of some of my favorite posts related to [...]

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