Hi All,

I love everything that she does. Linux, and opensource. Life is free!

And the Site. Here!

I love her.

Who doesn’t want to run Linux?

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I’m not a gamer, I wanted to get a PS3, but SONY dumped Linux.

Here is an interesting take on gaming…

spidweb writes “One Indie developer has written a nuanced article on a how software piracy affects him, approaching the issue from the opposite direction. He lists the ways in which the widespread piracy of PC games helps him. From the article: ‘You don’t get everything you want in this world. You can get piles of cool stuff for free. Or you can be an honorable, ethical being. You don’t get both. Most of the time. Because, when I’m being honest with myself, which happens sometimes, I have to admit that piracy is not an absolute evil. That I do get things out of it, even when I’m the one being ripped off.’ The article also tries to find a middle ground between the Piracy-Is-Always-Bad and Piracy-Is-Just-Fine sides of the argument that might enable single-player PC games to continue to exist.”

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Interesting reading for us geeks and anyone that uses anything electronic connected to the Internet…

joabj writes “Now that Facebook has amassed more than 500 million users, a growing number of open source social networking developers are wondering if Facebook’s photo sharing, status updates and other features wouldn’t work better as Internet-wide standardized services. At the OSCON conference last week, the head of Identi.ca, an open source Twitter-like microblogging service, likened today’s social networking services to the enormously proprietary online services of the early 1990s, like AOL or Prodigy. He suggested that just like SMTP and Sendmail standardized what were previously propriety e-mail services, so too could open source social networking stacks, like OStatus, render walled garden services like Facebook obsolete.”

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Ok, here is what a Linux Desktop looks like. I always get this question. We are just more powerful, less of a security risk than either Microsoft or MAC.

We do it all and for free.

Run Linux, Run Free!

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I’m sort of a basic kind of guy. I use a computer and understand the back-end. Lot’s of things going on there where you don’t have ownership. I’ve kept what I own to myself, and self publish on a web site or blog. Sure, it might be too much, but I run Linux, and other cool free Web 2.0 tools. I take that extra step ahead of the herd.

When people surrender their thinking, thoughts, and photos to either Myspace or Facebook they have no idea what can be collected.

If I had idle time on my hands I probably could do the same

I've moved what I do through Tor and a Russian nuclear fallout shelter.

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I’ve fallen in love…

I am breathless…

I love it when she goes Geek.

JJMacey
Tempe, Arizona

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Hi All,

I run Linux Ubuntu, the free alternative to paying for Microsoft or Mac operating systems or applications.

Besides all this free goodness there are more sources out there than you can imagine. Linux rules the world a good example is Android. You have no idea where it is because it is transparent to the user. It is free, available and used by really, big, companies, governments. The US Government’s National Security Agency (NSA) even offers a free download.

Anyway, Lifehacker is the place to find tips about anything related to personal electronics. In regard to Linux there is the Lifehacker Pack for Linux: Our List of the Best Linux Downloads.

Linux is free, everywhere, and for everyone. Enjoy, and join us.

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I’m not a writer, but do things – like all those others out there e.g. run / work / play / have a life / use a computer / have a PDA. I don’t hate, was frustrated, and dumped Microsoft. Why, I took the personal initiative. I got tired of Microsoft and its updates, scanning for virii, defragging the HDD, spyware, adware, and the general nonsense one encounters running the Microsoft Operating System and its applications. Let alone all the costs in time, energy and effort.

There are a lot of buzz-words out there and one of those is OpenSource that means no Microsoft or MAC. That means Linux to me. I took the plunge. I have been running the Linux based UBUNTU. All too often, what is never mentioned, is the additional word Community. Join a Linux Forum with your issues — save a lot of time, energy, effort, and money. LOL! Get involved, it is Free! I mean the Operating System is free!

Simply, Linux does things for me that I always wanted to do. Once you get involved, the end result is simply amazing. No one lead me by the hand – but I took the personal initiative. I had no budget, but always asked, why can’t I do this, or that, with all the Microsoft software that I bought, or was handed to me. Oh, I have had at a time one, or two, large budgets. And, paid for Microsoft licenses all over the planet. Then the price kept getting higher.

Meanwhile, I started to get frustrated. Lots of things to do, and pay for out there. But, no help. Developing a business became a problem. Joining a Linux Forum was amazing. People with the same problems that I had gave me solutions. Noticing why I shifted to Linux?

Here is a great example of Linux. I’ve always looked to Spell Check my e-mails in multiple languages. The reason is, I have worked Internationally (Globally) for a good deal of my life, and always, always wanted to spell check my e-mails in American English (not the Queen’s, but the President’s), stay in contact with my son in Germany, and deal with my Hispanic friends. Plus, throw in the occasional French phrase. All spell checked.

Now, as a thinking individual, go try to find a solution with Microsoft. I’ll bet you can’t. My solution Evolution, which is included in all Linux Operating Systems. Can you imagine after having dealt with the largest, most monopolistic software company on the planet, my multiple phone conversations with their Tech Support? I can now spell check in four languages at the same time.

Hey, we have all been there, done that, and have the T-Shirt. C’mon guys – get with the program, it’s a small world after all. Wasn’t that once a big hit song from a Disney film? I truly think that Microsoft has become too – what would the right word be here? Perhaps too something or other. I don’t want to beat them up, but the shift came to me a while back. I had ideas in mind, and wanted to do something. Linux, and all those thousands, and thousands of applications gave me the solutions.

They don’t call it a PC – Personal Computing — without a reason. I’ve a my PC. It is now all OpenSource.

Next, I hated having to buy all those additional programs / applications so that I can create a .pdf, burn a CD, DVD, let alone have a good Office Suite of programs. That’s not counting going on the search for a good secure browser, virus scanner, firewall, running disk fragmenters, checking on virii, adware, spyware, malware, root kits. Oh, and the ever popular Microsoft up-dates.

A Linux Distribution gives it to you all for free! First things first – OpenOffice. Result perfect. There are the haters out there that complain about Excel spreadsheet conversions, but I’ve often enough been stuck with Excel – as an application itself. If some one can’t convert a Word .doc, they never had the slightest clue what was done in the first place. And they need professional help, and a life. I’m not a big fan of Microsoft Office.

Ever tried talking to Microsoft about trying to do something with Outlook, like trying to do a mass e-mail to clients, getting them the latest NewsLetter? You can do that with Mail Merge in Word, but not with Outlook. Buy another application, plus keep getting hit with security warnings, and up-dates. I’d become my own Microsoft System Engineer!

My newest friend is the OpenSource Communities. Funny word there. Lot’s of great support. My other friend is Google. A long time ago people were stuck with issues, but now we can do a “Google”. This time around everyone can do it and save themselves a good deal of time, effort and frustration dealing without Microsoft. Non-frustrating = Linux.

The free applications?

Run Linux, Run Free!

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This is really off-topic, but I needed somewhere to park a URL for a facebook posting. Consider this a social network learning curve. I remember they called it Web 2.0, but we all know what it meant. LOL! Color me colorful and computer literate. I’m doing this with a lot on the back-end that is transparent to all, just like facebook.

We begin…

WHERE DID PISS POOR COME FROM?

They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & sold to the tannery ……. if you had to do this to survive you were “Piss Poor.”

But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn’t even afford to buy a pot……they “didn’t have a pot to piss in” & were the lowest of the low. The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn’t just how you like it , think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s:

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June.. However, since they were starting to smell … brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house got clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, “Don’t throw the baby out with the Bath water!”

Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof.. Hence the saying “It’s raining cats and dogs.”

There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other critters could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That’s how canopy beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, “Dirt poor.”

The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way. Hence: a thresh hold. Getting quite an education,aren’t you? I’m that kind of guy.

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire.. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme: Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old.

Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, “bring home the bacon.” They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the fat.

Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the upper crust.

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. The family would take them for dead and get them ready for burial. They would be laid on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a wake.

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus,someone could be, saved by the bell or was considered a dead ringer.

And that’s the truth…..Now, whoever said History was boring ! ! !

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Hi All,

Every once in a while I goof off. Linux users do that on the Internet, Servers, Computers, Phones, etc. Linux really rules the world, but here it was probably UNIX.

The first man on the moon!

Gotta love it.

Best Regards,

JJMacey
Tempe, Arizona

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Hi All,

We have fun with Linux. Better than Microsoft or anything from Apple.

Funny thing is that it is all free, and global. Of, course, the big guys all run Linux. Ask! The world runs on Linux.

Besides PC surgery…

Linux and the Open Source Community…

The thing is that it is free. Open, and better than Microsoft, or anything from Apple.

Who runs Linux - You do every day…

Of course we are the champions of the world…