Tag: Open Source
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WCLM – Westren Canada Lab Managers Meeting ’09
Last week, I was fortunate enough to be invited to the Western Canada Lab Managers Meeting, so while I have put this in with the other conferences, it is an odd fit. But as I was able to take away from the expererince some insight as to what others are doing with regards to their…
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Ubuntu Studio
After finding this UbuntoStudio distro, a Linux switch might be even more of a viable fall back.
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How (if barely) Moodle is Web2.0 and others are still 1.0
Today my takeaway idea came from two amazing keynotes and snack/lunch talks – that even though Moodle might be a packaged as a service by some corporation or a self hosted/supported service, there is one thing that will keep it separate from propriety LMSs. Moodle can be modified without having to worry about what the…
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Obama and his fruit
Well it seems that Obama will be able to keep his Blackberry, and now is wondering where the Macs are in the US government. It seems to me that in his new-found uber-celebrity, Obama, by merely indicating his preferences in an unsolicited fashion, preference for just about anything is the best advertising that a company…
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PS3 Supercomputing
Remember way back in 2003, when the PS2 was king? Back then a few folk got together and built a PS2 supercomputer. I don’t know if those systems went beyond a proof of concept, but there is now a PS3 cluster that has. The team has even been kind enough to put together a resource…