One of the things I had to do with the netbook when I installed easy peasy ubuntu onto it, was to create a startup disk that ran from a USB port. Here is a tutorial on how to create a boot thumb drive of nearly any Linux install disks.
The $10 laptop is not a laptop at all, the display-less and keyboard-less prototype device demonstrated is just a 10 x 5-inch wide slab that stores (and apparently prints) distributed learning materials which can later be retrieved by an impoverished child… using a laptop and paper he can’t afford to purchase.
How can you wean friends, family and coworkers from Windows to Linux? Get them to use open source apps on Windows, there are thousands of programs ported to run there. Once they are comfortable with that, show them how much better those same apps run under Linux.
After two weeks of trying out the new netbook, the author writes about the issues that have been overcome, worked around, or endured.
A method of generically automating any data value change in javascript. This is a useful method for changing the sizes, locations, colors, and any other numeric property of an item.
A commentary on existing and future social web site design.
Describes the usual development style of most development shops. And how to make it better.
A proposal to allow people to create their own forms and the work flow around those forms in order to model their businesses more accurately in software and report on everything.
Currently the paradigm for the user interface is based around the desktop and around applications. All data in a system is fragmented across these artificial boundaries.
What I propose is to break these barriers down and organize the information in a system around people.
Install a single Linux box. The Linux box is a dual Athlon with 1GB of RAM, two 100GB drives, a 100GB tape drive, an 8 port serial card, 2 network cards and between 1-8 modems.
The drives are mirrored with Raid 0 as a live data backup.
The modems are voice/fax modems that will accept either a [...]