People bring all kinds of laptops to workshops, and installing your software on them might take hours. So it’s nice to just give everyone a bootable USB stick or CD, containing a live linux distribution (i.e. one that runs straight from the USB stick/CD) and the software. This can get a room full of people [...]
Social network time
by Alex on November 7, 2011
I’m privileged to be able to hear my grandmother Billie Campbell singing The Old Lamplighter in the 1940s, even though I was born after her death. I’m also privileged to be able to see (but not hear) my great-grandfather John Ross Campbell on his release from being a political prisoner for incitement to mutiny in 1924. I’m [...]
New old laptop
by Alex on November 1, 2011
My old laptop was falling apart, but buying a new one presented all kinds of ethical problems of which I have become increasingly aware. Also new laptops are badly made and I always much preferred the squarer 4:3 screens that weirdly got phased out in the switch to widescreen five years ago (around the same [...]