TooMuchGreen

“When business, education, and governments are cost conscious, they move toward Linux. Even in times of economic strength, they want control od their operating systems. Ubuntu Linux saves money. The open source nature of Linux allows organisations to control and customise their operating systems.

If desired, commercial support is available from Canonical. Even with that support Linux saves money, and provides a higher degree of control when compared to Microsoft Windows.  Read more... (estimated reading time 47 secs)

This weekend I encountered first hand exactly the situation highlighted by TalkTalk in their recent demonstration aimed at the UK Governments naive plan to disconnect persistent on-line file sharers. The problem is that of unsecured home Wi-Fi, and there’s a lot of it about.  Read more... (estimated reading time 1:47 mins)

My good friend Phil (fellow geek, blogger & purveyor of the gadget world) wrote a contemplative post a while back about our relationship with music related physical media in comparison to storage of MP3′s, a subject I also reflect on. I’d replied with a retrospective aside on how we used to play one side of an album then physically turn it over to play the other, a differential listening experience from absently flicking across disjointed audio tracks plucked as we all do today from a monolithic vat of data.  Read more... (estimated reading time 3:21 mins)