Linux pundits would have you think that Linux distributions like Mandriva or Fedora Core are now ready to replace Windows on PCs. But are they really? If you’re seriously considering making Linux your desktop operating system, you might want to read up on the Pros and Cons of moving to Linux. If that stirred your interest, the beginner’s guide to moving Windows to Linux should help you ease along to the Linux distribution of your choice. My take: Linux is…
The University of South California recently deployed WordPress in its blog portal, blog@USF. It’s more than just multiple stock installations though, with its integration with Menalto Gallery, Flickr, the de.li.cious bookmark manager and others. At present, it’s based on WordPress 1.2.2 but the developer’s planning to move to WordPress 1.5 in version 2 of blog@USF. He even has the source code available on his blog. I’m glad that I dropped by there, because I got to know about the MetaPlanet…
A sociology professior at Colombia has developed a program that’s apparently sophisticated enough to mark essays by analyzing text for key words, phrases and language patterns. Now, if such a program were available for use here, I’m sure many language teachers would be jumping for joy!
If you use Mozilla Firefox like I do on my Windows machine (Safari is simply faster on the Mac still), then you’ll really want to check out several feature-enhancing “extensions” from . It’s the first part of a ??-part feature, so do check it out if you want to find out more about cool extensions. This is the one thing I really miss when using Safari – no extensions support. 🙁 So I was really excited when I found out…
This list of fired bloggers caught my eye recently. I think it really drives the point that blogs are generally read-able by just about anyone who has internet access, and more importantly, it could be read by people whom you don’t want to be reading your blog! If you blog, there are no guarantees you’ll attract a readership of thousands. But at least a few readers will find your blog, and they may be the people you’d least want or…
Somehow I wasn’t surprised to read about Blogger’s frequent outages.. It wasn’t too many years ago when Hotmail was getting lots of flak for its unreliability (which prompted by jump to Yahoo Mail, which turned out to be a little better). But do users of such services really have any grounds to complain against the providers of these free services? In my opinion, if these users aren’t paying, they really ought not complain. Software, hardware and technical support all cost…