May 2008
Dell + Ubuntu+ sub$500 mini computer = EEEpc killer ?
Submitted by Don Watkins on Fri, 05/30/2008 - 18:32ShareThisThinking of a new Eee PC or maybe Wind laptop? Hold up, Dell's about to loose this baby on the sub-$500 mini-laptop world.
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G.ho.st
Submitted by Don Watkins on Fri, 05/30/2008 - 08:17ShareThisCloud computing is upon us and as a person who recently began using Amazon Simple Storage it was with interest that I read a piece in the New York Times about a new product called G.ho.st.
Dara's singing cow: http://twi...
Submitted by Don Watkins on Fri, 05/30/2008 - 01:09ShareThisDara's singing cow: http://twiddeo.com/video.php?id=331
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Spending the weekend at Willia...
Submitted by Don Watkins on Sun, 05/25/2008 - 17:47ShareThisSpending the weekend at Williamsburg, VA for our 25th wedding anniversary.
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PLP @ WNYRIC: http://twiddeo.c...
Submitted by Don Watkins on Thu, 05/22/2008 - 21:41ShareThisPLP @ WNYRIC: http://twiddeo.com/video.php?id=312
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Jungledisk
Submitted by Don Watkins on Wed, 05/21/2008 - 20:47ShareThisLast night I was reading Groklaw's news feed and I came upon a particularly interesting article Cloud Computing Tips for the Enterprise. In the article was a link to Amazon S3 and Jungledisk. I've been reading about Amazon's Simple Storage but until last night had not used it. Now I'm using Jungledisk on Linux and Windows to connect to my own simple storage on Amazon. With Jungledisk you can store an unlimited amount of data for only fifteen cents a gigabyte.
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Red Hat Enterprise 5
Submitted by Don Watkins on Mon, 05/19/2008 - 05:33ShareThisLast night I purchased Red Hat Enterprise 5. It's been a couple of years since I did the same with Red Hat Enterprise 4, but we want to upgrade our Lotus Domino server at Franklinville Central School to Domino 8 and in order for that to happen we must have Red Hat Enterprise 5 running. Educational institutions can purchase an unsupported edition of Red Hat Enterprise 5 for $60. That's a great value. Add to that you get all the Xen virtualization software too.
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Epals
Submitted by Don Watkins on Sat, 05/17/2008 - 19:59ShareThisAt the same I learned about another very interesting free site that is open to educators and interestingly enought it runs on Drupal. It's called Epals School Blog and you can set up a free account for you and your classroom. Here is a link to the site that we were using yesterday and it is representative of the kind of site you can set up for your students.
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Pay Attention
Submitted by Don Watkins on Sat, 05/17/2008 - 19:42ShareThisYesterday I attended a 21st Century Educational Leadership conference at the Western New York Regional Information Center. I learned many new things and was exposed to some new technology applications. The conference began with this video which I think speaks volumes about where we are as a society and culture.
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Going Green
Submitted by Don Watkins on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 08:25ShareThisWith the price of fuel sky-rocketing world wide there is a sudden up tick in people concerned about energy footprint and how to reduce it. I've seen some articles written about Linux and green PCs.
LessWatts is about creating a community around saving power on Linux, bringing developers, users, and sysadmins together to share software, optimizations, and tips and tricks.I've given some thought to my own energy footprint and to the workplace.
