October 24, 2008 – 10:53 am
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 margin. [...]
October 16, 2008 – 9:00 am
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 a [...]
October 15, 2008 – 1:12 pm
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 it [...]
October 15, 2008 – 8:56 am
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 for demand.
The [...]
October 13, 2008 – 11:54 am
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 Ubuntu and [...]
September 28, 2008 – 7:39 pm
Stop using Endnote.
Thomson Reuters, the maker of Endnote, is suing Virginia over Zotero. The claim is that the makers of Zotero reverse engineered Endnote to make Zotero.
However, it doesn’t look like that’s true. It looks like Zotero allows users to use their own Endnote file and save their bibliographic information back as an Endnote file [...]
I’ve been ranting enough about switching to Ubuntu for professional reasons, that I thought people interested in those posts might be interested in some of these items that I’ve come across today. Here’s a fun list that should be of interest to Linux lovers.
This is kind of funny. Dell has discovered a loophole to give [...]
In this New York Times article, a business professor discusses one of the major issues he thinks Windows faces.
My Summary: Windows is a piece-meal, monothilic OS based on 60s and 70s code dogma. It’s a Frankenstein OS. It’s basically 30 years of patching and unfinished quilt-work.
His recommendation as a business professor to a business - [...]
I’m still loving my switch to Ubuntu. I’m even making philosophy Ubuntu wallpapers.
Now it looks like Richard Chapelle recently made the switch to Ubuntu. He’s got a list of possible downsides and concludes, the benefits seem to outweigh the costs. I agree.
There is one downside that came up in the comments that I do agree [...]
It seems unfitting not to show a little love to Socrates with an Ubuntu Wallpaper. I had a more grand vision with this one. Right now it’s a little plain. I may come back to this one and fix it up, but some may like it just like this - so consider this version one.
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